The characters develop on this show. Alexis for instance does not remain, not totally remain, a stereotypical Jewish American Princess, over-materialistic and over-sexed. She does not get her high school diploma until age 28 lol but her fourteen years lol prior were not, not totally, a walk--"in nice shoes"--in the wilderness of southeast Asian princedoms and Middle Eastern kingdoms. There are three instances I have seen so far of little Alexis' character rounding.
The first occurred very early on in my watching of the series. I was skipping around quite a bit and now cannot find the episode but it was Jocelyn saying to Moira that"Alexis is one of the most talented people I have ever met." I found it, S4 E12: "Your daughter has grown into one of the most amazing people I have ever known. She is a hard worker; she is kind, and she is capable of more than people give her credit for."
The second occurred after David and Patrick opened their apothecary. There were four teen boy townies loitering around the store entrance every day after school. They would come in the store, one would distract David by complimenting him; one would get Patrick out of the way by asking if the store carried some expensive article in a different size or color, sending Patrick into the back to look, and the other two would shoplift meantime.
Alexis was in the store one day for this gypsy routine. She was just loitering herself, sitting on the counter with her long legs. When the gypsies left she walked David and Patrick through the routine--as she and a girlfriend had done it in Japan or somewhere. David and Patrick were gape-jawed as Alexis explained, and didn't really believe her. Until Patrick checked inventory on the shelves. Little seemingly bubble-headed but worldly wise Alexis had saved the store.
Nobody trusted Alexis to be responsible. There was a prior occasion when she was similarly sitting on the counter with her long legs dangling awaiting a store package, her sole responsibility, when her boyfriend Ted, the veterinarian, came in. Alexis and Ted had sex in the back bathroom where David had installed a new sink. They had sex on the new sink. And broke it.
Alexis, with reason, thought nobody in her family really cared about her. There was the scene in the driving license episode where David tells her that he had to rush send her emergency passports and "colored contact lenses" when she was globe trotting and ceiling walking in those "nice shoes". "I did that. Not mom or dad. I was worried about you." "Well, you didn't have to worry about me," Alexis says. "Well, I did," David retorts. And at that moment Alexis looked out the car window with a touched smile on her face.
The third occurred in season four, in an episode I watched last night. David takes Alexis, who he introduces as his "intern" with him for a crucial meeting with a supplier with whom David desperately wants an exclusivity deal. Unbeknownst to either of them the supplier is Ted's new cougar girlfriend. "I have to be honest with you David, I'm talking to other stores," the cougar businesswoman says. As they chat over lunch the cougar remembers where she recognized Alexis' voice. "If you hadn't been answering the phone all of those months and giving Ted the messages this wouldn't have happened," and she plants a loving kiss on Ted. It just about shattered Alexis. But she recovered with cold steel. When the cougar said, "We feel that we owe you" Alexis pounced. "Well, if you think you owe us, David wants an exclusivity deal for his store." "I'm sold," says the cougar. Now: Unlikely, yes, of course, but give some poetic license for the point of the scene is not the securing the exclusivity deal but the newly seen competent, strategic Alexis.
In the car on the way back home, to the motel, there is a face of Alexis that we have never seen before.
She is staring out the car window broken-hearted. David looks over at her a couple of times and says "Thank you." "You're still in love with him, aren't you?" "Yes."
She has become an iron woman with a young girl’s heart.
The first occurred very early on in my watching of the series. I was skipping around quite a bit and now cannot find the episode but it was Jocelyn saying to Moira that
The second occurred after David and Patrick opened their apothecary. There were four teen boy townies loitering around the store entrance every day after school. They would come in the store, one would distract David by complimenting him; one would get Patrick out of the way by asking if the store carried some expensive article in a different size or color, sending Patrick into the back to look, and the other two would shoplift meantime.
Alexis was in the store one day for this gypsy routine. She was just loitering herself, sitting on the counter with her long legs. When the gypsies left she walked David and Patrick through the routine--as she and a girlfriend had done it in Japan or somewhere. David and Patrick were gape-jawed as Alexis explained, and didn't really believe her. Until Patrick checked inventory on the shelves. Little seemingly bubble-headed but worldly wise Alexis had saved the store.
Nobody trusted Alexis to be responsible. There was a prior occasion when she was similarly sitting on the counter with her long legs dangling awaiting a store package, her sole responsibility, when her boyfriend Ted, the veterinarian, came in. Alexis and Ted had sex in the back bathroom where David had installed a new sink. They had sex on the new sink. And broke it.
Alexis, with reason, thought nobody in her family really cared about her. There was the scene in the driving license episode where David tells her that he had to rush send her emergency passports and "colored contact lenses" when she was globe trotting and ceiling walking in those "nice shoes". "I did that. Not mom or dad. I was worried about you." "Well, you didn't have to worry about me," Alexis says. "Well, I did," David retorts. And at that moment Alexis looked out the car window with a touched smile on her face.
The third occurred in season four, in an episode I watched last night. David takes Alexis, who he introduces as his "intern" with him for a crucial meeting with a supplier with whom David desperately wants an exclusivity deal. Unbeknownst to either of them the supplier is Ted's new cougar girlfriend. "I have to be honest with you David, I'm talking to other stores," the cougar businesswoman says. As they chat over lunch the cougar remembers where she recognized Alexis' voice. "If you hadn't been answering the phone all of those months and giving Ted the messages this wouldn't have happened," and she plants a loving kiss on Ted. It just about shattered Alexis. But she recovered with cold steel. When the cougar said, "We feel that we owe you" Alexis pounced. "Well, if you think you owe us, David wants an exclusivity deal for his store." "I'm sold," says the cougar. Now: Unlikely, yes, of course, but give some poetic license for the point of the scene is not the securing the exclusivity deal but the newly seen competent, strategic Alexis.
In the car on the way back home, to the motel, there is a face of Alexis that we have never seen before.
She is staring out the car window broken-hearted. David looks over at her a couple of times and says "Thank you." "You're still in love with him, aren't you?" "Yes."
She has become an iron woman with a young girl’s heart.
