Netflix's Prairie Makeover: A Modern, Multiracial Reimagining of Little House
TL;DR
Netflix’s eight-episode Little House on the Prairie remake updates the Laura Ingalls Wilder story with a diverse cast and modern themes—Osage friends, Black doctors and storekeepers, and a freer-spirited Laura—while keeping a feel-good core about family and friendship. Critics, including Megyn Kelly, call it woke, but the show also foregrounds historical complexities and economic pressures that the books hint at, culminating in the Ingallses’ departure from Independence.
- Netflix’s Remake of Little House on the Prairie Is Certainly Different Slate Magazine
- Review: ‘Little House’ Adds On an Expansion The New York Times
- Little House on the Prairie review – this reboot will have you sobbing for a simpler world by episode four The Guardian
- Commentary: The creator of 'Little House on the Prairie' isn't worried about being called 'woke' Los Angeles Times
- Meet the New Laura Ingalls: “Little House” Star Alice Halsey Says She Felt a ‘Lot of Pressure’ to Get the Role Right (Exclusive) Yahoo
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