Elle2026

Cute but instantly forgettable, “Elle” isn’t awful, but it plays like unnecessary fan fiction.

In 2026, life is a doom scroll for so many people. Social discourse in incredibly polarized and negative. Narratives like Ted Lasso and the film Barbie offer an escape from that. . Elle is set in the mid-1990s and offers emotional distance from the worst of 2026 and lets Elle be earnest without irony and cynicism... it allows low-stakes storytelling. . One of the things that makes film work and what is good in Elle is casting. For example, the mean girl role Kimberly role played by Chandler Kinney might have been not handled so carefully in some productions but Chandler Kinney is great in her role... and, on top of that the writers make the role a positive part of Elle instead of just thinking not so hard to make everything as good as possible. . So many things I could say about this show. if you need a break from life, I recommend Elle.

Unless we eventually learn that Elle suffered a memory wipe after returning to LA for college, the series—already renewed for season two—offers little more than surface-level escapism aimed at millennials who are nostalgic for the ’90s.