trisha paytas played maxine dean in beetlejuice and we have been sleeping on this

the bit where we all agreed trisha paytas couldn't surprise us anymore is officially over.

broadwayworld published a photo of trisha paytas as maxine dean in beetlejuice and apparently the internet just let that happen and moved on. a photo. documented. timestamped november 2025. sitting in the archive like it owes us nothing.

here is the thing about trisha paytas that people keep forgetting: she is genuinely funny. not accidentally funny. not 'it's so cringe it loops back' funny. actually, on purpose, committed-to-the-bit funny. maxine dean is a neurotic, status-obsessed, slightly deranged woman who wants to be taken seriously and isn't. casting trisha paytas in that role is either the smartest decision someone made in 2025 or a cosmic accident. either way it works.

the discourse around trisha always orbits the same three things. the drama. the weight. the crying. chat never gives her credit for the part where she shows up and does the work. she got a euphoria cameo. she got a benihana signature order. she is writing a memoir. she just signed a podcast deal with a network that rebranded to accommodate her. and somewhere in the middle of all that she was apparently putting on a wig and playing a character in beetlejuice the musical and nobody made it a moment.

that is a failure of coverage, not a failure of subject.

the argument against trisha paytas as a legitimate performer has always been that she is too much, too chaotic, too associated with a specific era of youtube that people want to leave behind. maxine dean is literally too much and chaotic by design. the role description could not fit better if you tried.

someone put her in that show for a reason. the photo exists. broadwayworld ran it. and then the discourse went right back to the glp-1 updates and the hemorrhoid news and the ariana grande takes.

anyway. the curtain came down and we still weren't paying attention.