Out of all the characters on the hit series Schitt's Creek, Alexis Rose has undergone the most character development. She started as a vapid socialite, but after being stuck in small-town purgatory for years, she began to realize there was more to life than posting meals to Instagram and crashing parties with celebrities.
Viewers have become enamored with Alexis surmounting all the hurdles of adult life with a sunny disposition, and have become struck by her newfound complexity and maturity through her relationship with Ted Mullens and her family. However, while Alexis has always had her own sort of inherent logic, some parts of her development over the series have caused fans to find her behavior stranger than being "a little bit Alexis."
Not having more cultural capital
As She's vacationed with elite of drug cartels and Saudi princes. Yet she has no culture capital when she arrives in Schitt's Creek that might somehow help her family's situation.
The only job she can get is at Ted's animal clinic, but through the enormity of her social connections, she should be able to network into getting a reality television series, or at the very least become a top-performing social media influencer with a following she can monetize.
Her interest in Mutt
When Alexis first moves to Schitt's Creek, she is immediately cognizant of the fact that her target demographic of hot single men is as woefully small as the town's social scene. She settles on going after Mutt, a backwoodsy fellow who's the closest thing to a heartthrob among the yokels.
Mutt has a few red flags, though, first and foremost of which is the manner in which they meet (he's doing community service for a minor offense); second of which is his parents; and finally the fact that he lives in a barn. Beyond that, Mutt is just too boring of a character for someone like Alexis, and they lack chemistry to carry the romantic tension for a season and a half.
Playing games with Ted's heart
While pursuing Mutt, Schitt's Creek's prodigal son, Alexis also gets to know Ted, the sweet — if naive — local veterinarian. Against his better judgment, Ted hires Alexis to act as his practice's scheduler, and eventually develops feelings for her.
Ted believes in her work ethic, gives her a chance to prove herself, cares about her well-being, and proves himself a ive partner, but she plays yo-yo with his heart in favor of seeing how far her relationship with a lumberjack will go.
Caring what her former friends think of her
In Season 4, while preparing events for Singles Week, Alexis bumps into a gaggle of her vacuous friends who happen to be driving through Schitt's Creek on their way to someplace more exciting. They make all sorts of off-color comments about the town, and Alexis is mortified to it she's been living in it for years.
By this point, Alexis has found a home in Schitt's Creek and made peace with it. When she's given the opportunity to leave everything she's worked for behind, she spends the entire episode waffling on her decision before finally turning it down.
Having lunch with Ted and his girlfriend
Granted David is keen to drag Alexis along to one of his supplier's farms to weigh in on her artisan cheese, but surely Alexis would have bailed the moment she was hit with both the smell of old cheese and the fact that Heather is Ted's new girlfriend.
Her morbid curiosity is piqued along with her sense of smell, and she endures an entire lunch with Ted and his new partner, whom he met at the vet clinic while Alexis was working there.
Quitting her job
Out of a sudden sense of morality Alexis quits her job working for Ted at the animal clinic, feeling that there are many more qualified candidates than her, and she still needs to find what she's most suited for.
Unfortunately this happens when her family has been counting on her to maintain the job so that they'll have some extra income, and since Alexis doesn't yet know what she wants to do with her life, it would make more sense to remain in gainful employment.
Not having her own apartment
Despite the fact that Alexis tries to find her own apartment in earlier seasons of Schitt's Creek, she ends up stopping that pursuit once she applies for the same apartment as David. That leaves her staying at the Rosebud Motel with her parents, which she complains about constantly.
Alexis values her privacy, and despite making headway in various professional capacities (first at Ted's animal clinic, later as an event planner and PR agent), she doesn't try to get another apartment, even with Twyla as a roommate.
Not going to the Galapagos Islands with Ted
In the fifth season of the series, Ted gets the chance of a lifetime to go to the Galapagos Islands and study turtles. It's been his dream for years, and now he has the perfect opportunity and the perfect partner — Alexis — to enjoy it with. He decides to go on ahead and she can him later.
Ted knows how Alexis works, and the more time they have apart, the more of a chance she'll have to change her mind. More importantly, Alexis knows how she works, so if she really wanted to be with him, she'd have gone with him when he left.
Not recognizing a cult
In Season 6, Alexis decides to sign Jocelyn, Ronnie, Stevie, and Twyla up for a spin-cycle class at "Elevation," a trendy exercise studio that focuses on mental and spiritual "ascendance." Despite the fact that don't actually wear any workout clothing but are made to perform their spin class in muslin robes, Alexis doesn't sense anything strange.
Stevie is completely off-put from the beginning and tries to express her concerns to Alexis. Even after the hipster class leader named "Citrus" begins talking about "the gateway" and "demons," Alexis doesn't understand it's a cult until Twyla almost commits to a weekend conversion getaway.
Not making it work with Ted
Alexis and Ted have grown exponentially since the first rocky days of their relationship, and despite being hundreds of miles apart, they fully work to making their long distance relationship work. But when Ted declares in the sixth season that he has the opportunity to stay a part of the research team "permanently," Alexis realizes she can't move to where he is and he realizes he can't ask her to.
While he also can't turn down the amazing chance of a life time, "permanently" is really only "three years" according to his contract, and if Johnny could make it work with Moira being gone for 6-8 months shooting "The Crowening," surely Alexis could make it work with the only man she's said "I love you" to and meant it.