Little House on the Prairie reboot coming to Netflix

[quote]“It has been a long-held dream of mine to carry on my father’s legacy and adapt Wilder’s classic American stories for a 21st century audience

"My pronouns are the finest pronouns in all of Walnut Grove ... "

Meet Nonbinary Nellie.

One of the kids needs to be gay on the prairie.

The reality of life on the midwestern prairie in the 19th century: incest, madness, high infant mortality, alcoholism, spousal abuse, casual homicide, high suicide rates, bestiality.

Donner Party crossover.

Timothee IS PA Ingalls

Laura's sister Carrie and her daughter Rose lives way more interesting lives than Laura ever did. I would rather watch a show on them.

*lived

The entire series should stand as a tribute to David Lynch, taking a cue from the beloved (by DL) episode Sylvia from the original run.

About time! I’d like to see some homosex where the man goes up into the man, on the prairie

The Markels ore the Reynolds as the Olsons would be fun.

Starring Alison Arngrim as Harriet Olsen.

Little Fairy on the Prairie

Season one involves a mystery which unravels to show that Nels Oleson is the biological father of all the children in Walnut Grove.

It would be nice to address more adult storylines. Start with a rename: The Best Little House On the Prairie.

Buck Rogers gives Ma a screaming orgasm.

Jesus fuck, people, can we be serious for a minute?

It would be amazing if the new series was more faithful to the books. The show that aired years ago was complete crap and full of fabrications and drama for tv ratings.

Yes, I know the point of tv is drama and excitement and yes, I faithfully watched every episode until the end, but I knew as I watched that it was nothing like the books.

Is Ryan Murphy or Shonda producing?

Maybe this is something we need.

Never read the books or followed the show so I have no idea what to expect. All three of my sisters read the books and the youngest watched the show with our dad when he retired. And he watched only M*A*S*H, Little House, and anything news related. I was in my teens when the show aired so to me IT SUCKED. I saw it as similar to The Waltons and by then I'd had my fill of them.

Now I'm around the age or older that my father was when he watched it. Maybe I should give it a try. My sisters read the books at elementary school age. I was steered toward the boys' books. Are they kids' books?

R15, I am mostly asking you. Could a viable series work by being faithful the the original story?

The interpersonal relations on that set were so terrible, according to her book, I can't look at it the same way. What a bag of assholes.

Who does R15 think she is? Laura Fucking Ingalls Wilder??

The should cast some Hollywood cad who can’t keep his pecker in his pants…. oh, they already did that.

Laura should have a hunky older brother whose nickname is “Full Pint”.

I hope my Pa isn't played by a darkie.

R3 R15 - Even Wilder sanitized the reality of it. Everybody should be dead at the end of season 1 from typhoid.

Shitbra should be worked into the story somehow.

I'd like to see big hangin' Uncle Chris take Ma from behind while tweaking her nipples. And then have it be revealed that Mary was peeping in horror from a windowless pane and this was what caused her to go blind right then and there.

R24, the books go into great detail about how the family all nearly died from malaria and how they were saved by a Black doctor.

Disease is not given a front row seat in the books, but it’s not absent.

There needs to be a whorehouse in the reboot.

In real life, they lived in what was basically a whorehouse (or upstairs from it).

There was a possible molestation of one of the girls by a drunk.

Alison Arngrim needs to make an appearance in any reboot! I would watch to see her.

In their tradition of not being able to read the room, I envision Netflix casting Meghan and Harry as Ma and Pa Ingalls.

Gabourey Sidibe IS Ma Ingalls

They’re going to shoehorn-in at least one if not two black characters or, more than likely, recast one if the Ingalls as black or make the Olsens black. Oh, and we WILL get some form of trans/nonbinary character.

R34 But your ass sho nuff didn’t care when shows were shoehorning gay characters into tv shows and movies when Americans didn’t want them.

Rock on, r35. And Little House had black guest stars in the day, which some people probably thought was "woke"

And hardly any shows have trans characters, so I'm not sure why you assume this one will

R34 Did you not see where IN THE BOOKS a Black doctor saved the family? And there were plenty of Native Americans in the books, too. Pa had a very liberal view of them.

"Gabourey Sidibe IS Ma Ingalls"

Gabourey Sidibe ATE Ma Ingalls

Nellie Olson helps the Army arrest and deport all the Canadians living illegally in Wallnut Grove. When the government imposes a two-gender-only, Adam makes a shocking confession.

Why do you think Nellie got her name?

Carrie will be the autistic character. She was just a retard in the original.

Very excited to see Laverne Cox's performance in this.

Wasn't Laura I. daughter a bisexual in real life?

They should include her in the later seasons.

Ma & Pa I. screwed folks with the diner & skipped outta town.

That realism should be included as well.

R39 I'd watch every minute of that version LOL!

There needs to be a reboot showing what a loser pa was

Who knew the original Pa Ingalls was an actor of color!

Yes, R18, absolutely!!

I would love to hear the cracking of the solid ice of the mighty Mississippi River when the young family was crossing it during an early spring when they left their house in the woods.

I would love to ride along with the family in the covered wagon as they made their way west. When the native Americans were holding their pow-wows near the cabin Pa had built on the massive prairie. The little brown Indian baby that Laura had wanted so desperately to keep even though he had a mother.

The little sod house where they lived on Plum Creek.

Would love to see the Wilders’ well-run, prosperous farm.

That long hard winter where many people gave up and moved back east.

Would live to meet the real Mr Edward’s, the thin, lanky fellow instead of the tubby actor from the show.

There are many, many adventures and obviously years they could go through.

The books are really an easy read. They’re not necessarily for little girls or little kids. You would probably get thru them fairly quickly. They are very, very descriptive. I like where Laura says that the reason she was describing things in her life as well as she did was because she would always describe everything to Mary. She made everything come alive.

I think I might read the books again, I do own them all. 😬

Listen to them, r47. Cherry Jones is a fantastic narrator.

R47 That’s a good idea.

Liza as Mrs Olshen!

Oh, I never thought about that, R48. Thanks for the suggestion.

Adjusted for the 2025 audience...

Pa heroically thwarts Liberal Elite Harriet Olson's 'woke' plan to provide relief to the poor. Miss Beadle must intervene when a boy in her class claims to be a girl and assaults other girls despite the objections of 'woke' Harriet Olson. Reverend Aldin humiliates 'woke' Harriet Olson by quoting the Bible when Harriet Olson argues that 'homosexuals' can marry. Harriet Olson, humiliated and without the comfort only a TRUE christian faith can provide, kills herself. Little liberal snowflake Nellie Olson vows revenge...starting with Laura Ingalls (who has God on her side)!!

Over Megyn's dead body

^ If it pisses off Megyn they should make it as woke as possible

Pa becomes a follower of a disheveled carnival barker who spews insults about Indians saying they’re rapists and not the finest people. The carnival barker has bankrupted many towns along his destructive path, but despite knowing this, and knowing the carnival barker is a pathological lying rapist, more and more townspeople start joining Pa as followers as their lust for anger and grievance fill their increasingly empty souls. Pa kicks disabled Mary out of the Little House due to the shame of having a defective daughter. She’s raped and killed by an unknown clown. Laura meets Almanzo, a pedo who is 23 to her 13, starts following as well to no one’s surprise. He soon radicalizes her. Squaw LaughsALot comes to town to try and reason with the townsfolk. She offers them all kinds of policies which will make their lives infinitely better, and to turn away from the darkness and hate, but she is shockingly scalped by Half Pint who disturbingly runs around town wearing the scalp with blood running down her face laughing hysterically.

[quote]Over Megyn's dead body

She wouldn't make it through two hours of vintage Little House on the Prairie if she's really that triggered by what she calls wokeness. Progressivism and decency, two things she's deeply threatened by, were at the center of almost every episode.

I don’t think they would do anything to “woke-afy” whatever that means, that project.

If they tried anything stupid like that, I’d join that horrid cunt, Kelly,

R57 You’d join that stupid cunt over something you don’t even know what it means?

Thy cunt is you.

Hester-Sue was a DEI hire

Wouldn't blind Mary also be a DEI hire?

Also, the little cripple girl with one leg longer than the other.

“OH MY GOD THEY HAVE A TON OF INDIANS AND A BLIND GIRL AND A BLACK DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! MY GOD NOOOOOOOOOO! IT WAS ALL NORMAL WHITE PEOPLE BACK THEN. THAT’S ALL. JUST.NORMAL.WHITE.PEOPLE!!!!!!!”

Mary was an actual person, she was blinded by, I think, scarlet fever?

R62

“NOT TRUE. THERE WERE NOOOO BLIIIIND PEOPLE BACK THEN. JUST PERFECT WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!”

I hope it embarrasses those of you who are on the same side as Megyn Kelly.

r62 I read today that although Mary's blindness was originally attributed to Scarlet Fever, it was in fact because of viral encephalitis. They did some big study with a whole bunch of historical data that points to encephalitis as the real cause.

The more interesting question is why none of the Ingalls women were able to bear a living son. Caroline, Laura, and Rose all lost infant boys.

Rose helped found the Libertarian party so she's partly responsible for the mess we're in now.

aka Westworld season 5

I’d like to watch a show about Albert struggling to remain sober while living in the old west

[quote][R62] I read today that although Mary's blindness was originally attributed to Scarlet Fever, it was in fact because of viral encephalitis. They did some big study with a whole bunch of historical data that points to encephalitis as the real cause.

Didn't the family believe it was scarlet fever? Isn't that what Laura Ingalls Wilder write was the cause?

Does viral encephalitis present sufficiently close to scarlet fever that a poorly trained Doc Baker wouldn't know the difference?

Did doc baker go to Devry?

r70:

[quote] At age 14, Ingalls suffered an illness – allegedly scarlet fever – thought at the time to cause her blindness.[1][2] A 2013 medical study concluded that viral encephalitis actually disrupted her eyesight, based on evidence from first-hand accounts and newspaper reports of her illness, as well as relevant school registries, and epidemiologic data on blindness and infectious diseases.

Source: Wikipedia

Mary made the best out of her situation. Laura helped pay the bills when Mary went to a school for the blind.

Laura endured pretty harsh conditions when she was working as a teacher. She was miserable and the house she had to live in during one winter was very difficult for her because the people were mean.

Who is Albert??

Pa Ingalls - Armie Hammer

Ma Ingalls - Leighton Meester

Mary - Unknown

Laura - Unknown

R72 That's a man in drag for sure!!!

R53 What's Megyn going to do try to get a role on the show as the new Nellie Olsen?

This is a terrific biography of Laura...it ties her lifestory in with American history.

And, yeah, Rose Wilder Lane wouldn't have been our friend...one of the pioneers of the Libertarian Party

I hope Nellie has boughten carpets.

I had a love hate relationship with the TV show. I loved the books and I was about 11 or so when the show came out and it really annoyed me. Pa was ALL wrong! No beard and some dumb actor with a perm and fake tan. Walnut Grove was the stupidest "town"...its layout made no sense. And, don't get me started on those mountains...in southern Minnesota.

A great read about the real version is ‘Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder’ by Caroline Fraser. It won awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. It frames Laura’s life in the historical context of the day and is fascinating and even handed. My main take-aways: Pa was a dreamer and loser and ultimately poor provider who constantly uprooted, endangered and beggared his family. In retrospect, they should have stayed in the Big Woods is Wisconsin in the beautiful Driftless area instead of ending up in the godforsaken Dakota Territory. Laura wasn’t always a particularly kind person and had a complicated relationship with her daughter Rose. Rose and her parents were big Libertarians. It was interesting to see some of the historical roots of that way of thinking. They would all likely be MAGA today especially living in the Missouri sundown town they ended up in

This is also a great book - The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder. This explores the natural world in the times and places where she lived.

My great great grandmother was born in 1875. She died in 1985. 109 years old. 11 kids. The things m dad told me about the things she witnessed are fascinating. She saw it all.

Another vote for Alison Arngrim as the new Harriet Oleson.

Tori Spelling should play Ma.

Alison Arngrim would be too old to play Harriet Olsen. But if they are focusing on the books, then she would be great as a guest star as Pa’s mother who outdances everyone in little house in the big woods.

R86 One small problem....Alison Arngrim is an awful actress.

There's a reason why she went to standup. No one wanted to cast her in roles.

I bet Grassle is pissed

I wonder if the new Carrie will be retarded?

Between this and the Malcolm in the Middle reboot, Linwood Boomer could be having a moment

It is written between the lines in all the stuff about her, but aside from being an early Libertarian, Rose Wilder Lane was completely batshit and likely a lesbian. Laura herself was no prize but Rose was nuts.

Netflix will ruin it with everyone saying fuck this and fuck that. They’ll all be shooting and stabbing each other when they’re not having swx.

Sex!

Walnut Grove will have one adorable black family, one adorable Asian family, one adorable Latin family, someone in a wheelchair, some closety queer character that everyone accepts and likes except for the mean white folk, the Ingalls, some mean white folk, and lots of hugs!

The women characters will all have agency and feminist power.

To save money, the show will either be filmed in Australia or George. It will look nothing like Kansas/Minnesota/South Dakota.

Damn my rapid typing and lack of edit button on DL even though it's 2025 and there's really no excuse to not have that option.

GEORGIA!!!!!

Lily Gladstone will play "Ms Running Water" the new school teacher in town. She will impart wisdom and guidance in a firm but loving way.

R94, well that will be in line with the original show, which filmed in California and looked nothing like MN

First of all, don't have it set in Santa Clarita, CA. It needs to be on the prairie. Where are the grass roofed houses like in the books? Where's the game of vying for the fried pig's tail?

2nd... we need some plague and also some good Native American drama. Mary gets knocked up by the Chief's son and goes off to their land with her lover. Pa rustles up an army of angry white men to get her back...

Mary Ingalls is now transgender (born Marcus). Mary falls in love with a 2-Spirit Ojibway and they "marry" but tragedy strikes after the couple is attacked by a posse of fat white bigots. Mary goes blind and bitter and exhausted from explaining things to those less informed. She writes a best selling memoir in Braille and moves to Manhattan where she becomes the toast of the town for a season before losing all her money and fancy friends. She ends up turning tricks as "Blindass Bitch Mary" on the Bowery before dying of the lumbago.

Nellie comes home to discover Willie's deep dark secret.

Ratings aren't quite what they hoped so in Season 2 they introduce some vampires, elves and dragons to spice things up in Walnut Grove.

Walnut Grove: Special Victims Unit. Ma and Pa form a task force after Sylvia's rape by the clown.

Special Guest Star Mariska Hargitay as the new Sheriff.

No, that wouldn't work...bumbling new Sheriff Jonas Benson takes the case but it's his clever wife Bolivia who solves it with her female intuition and gumption.

Special guest star Christopher Meloni as Deputy Hank "Horse" Baloni.

R102 - I love it! Can Ice-T make an appearance, too?

Ice-T is "Pappy Jamal" a morphine runner from the Twin Cities who gets Carrie hooked on the 'morph'.

Lizzo as Hester Sue.

Buck never would've settled for Netflix for his Little House reboot!

I've told my agent that I have availability to play Nellie ss both child and adult!

Nobody can pull off Ma's bun like Blake Lively could.

Amy Schumer as Ma.

I think Blake Lively would be a shoo-in for Mrs. Oleson. Bitchy, sourpuss and shrewish - perfect casting.

R92 you’re a genius!

Little House remade as Deadwood.

Starring Alison Arngrim as Harriet Olsen’s long lost sister Alma Garrett.

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I'm hoping for a realistic telling of the story, no more Michael Landon smarminess.

And thanks for the laughs, bitches, this thread has been fun.

Who asked for this? It was an OK series - but it's very dated and I just don't see how it will appeal to 2020s audience. It's not like a Roseanne reboot.

God knows Melissa Gilbert will milk this for every ounce she can get. She's SO thirsty.

The books are well-loved classics. I'm usually not keen on reboots, but if they make an adaptation more faithful to the source material, it could be great.

Melissa G. should play the new Harriet O.

She has the acting chops to pull it off.

I want them to cast Rob Lowe as Pa Ingalls - just to see the reaction from Melissa "You don't FUCK with America's SWEETHEART" Gilbert.

[quote]R65 Mary's blindness… was in fact because of viral encephalitis.

This illness can also lead to “altered behavior” - which opens up a lot of avenues for the writers. (Ravings, split personality, lewd dancing, etc.)

R119 - the real tea is that is Mary contracted syphilis from being the town's good time girl, if you know what I mean. But you didn't hear that from me.

Will there be any black people?

^ SLUT!!!

I haven’t read the whole thread, was shitbra mentioned?

They should set it in the slums of Chicago

R121: “ Will there be any black people?”

In the books, the Doctor who saved the lives of the Ingalls family when they contracted malaria was black.

So probably yes?

Everyone thought Caroline married beneath her and they were right. Charles was a loser who subjected his family to poverty, disease, and isolation. Carrie suffered lifelong consequences because of malnutrition.

Laura was almost sold into prostitution! In Iowa, when the family was at their lowest point, a well dressed woman offered to take Laura in and put her to work. Ma was no fool and she told the lady to fuck off.

It's interesting that this is happening now.

We're three years away from the Ingalls family going into public domain. The first book in the series, "Little House in the Big Woods" was published in 1932.

Soon, ANYONE can do anything they want with the Little House characters.

Did Michael Landon buy the rights to all the books? Because it would be funny if other networks had snatched up the others and he suddenly had to compete with Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Banks of Plum Creek, etc. [bold]: o

R127 - well, that's because the woman wanted payment for such a plain buck-toothed young woman.

R128: “Soon, ANYONE can do anything they want with the Little House characters.”

I already did that with those characters

Well, didn’t they pretty much HAVE to invent storylines for the show? If they stuck to the books it would mostly be butchering hogs, making maple candy from syrup in the snow, going to a dance at an aunt’s house…. these aren’t extended, dramatic events.

"Soon, ANYONE can do anything they want with the Little House characters."

I smell a Slasher flick! Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie or Sylvia's Revenge.

I Adore the original. When Aloson Arngrim engaged in chat with me on FB it was so special.. shes great. So many of the original cast brought more to their roles than was on the page. They Have to be loyal to the original show, sets, casting, vibe. I loved how they found lokalikes for the Brady movies...that worked. I think the time is right for this, we need more love and positively..this is even obvious in how realitet shows arent going for drama and spiteful chatacters anymore...the public is over it. Melissa G, and Anderson,and Alison Arngrim Have to be involved somehow...pleeeeease.

They had to invent storylines for the show because they didn't bother to follow the books. The Ingalls were only in Walnut Grove for a short period of time. The Little House on the Priairie book and the pilot movie were about their year in southern Kansas. The next book in the series, On The Banks of Plum Creek covers their time near Walnut Grove. Really, they should have continued the tv show with the book series and moved them along to South Dakota/DeSmet.

Tyler Perry in his Madea costume as Hester Sue!

[quote]R133 I smell a Slasher flick! Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie or Sylvia's Revenge.

SPOILER ALERT:

The killer is young Nancy Oleson

R137 - that bow is EVERYTHING! Subtle yet coquettish.

She kept her shanks hidden in that bow - little known fact.

r137, As an only child, I had an imaginary sister. Her name was Nancy, based right off the TV screen. Everyone hated us! Why do you hate me so much, mother? Then one day, she was gone.

I would watch The Best Little Whorehouse on the Prairie.

Are Burt and Dolly available? 🤣

R129 Landon was too cheap to buy the rights to all the books. I recall he only bought the rights to the first book & b.s.ed his way through a decade's worth of episodes which is how we got Adam, Albert & Mary's baby. In real life, Mary was never that independent & was to be cared for at home.

After Pa died Laura never saw Mary or Ma again. Carrie was the only relative she invited to Rocky Ridge farm in Mansfield, MO. Real life Laura seems like a cunt.

R142 is too fucking dumb to understand the world that existed then.

Rose traveled all over the world but never went back to South Dakota. Laura took an extended trip to California. They traveled but clearly had no desire to see the Ingalls family again.

If you follow the LHOTP subreddits and FB groups, so many are still traumatised by Sylvia and that clown. A close second is the cringeworthy episode that featured Carrie and her godsister Alyssa. Third would be Alice Garvey using Mary’s baby as a battering ram whilst the blond school was consumed with fire.

*blind not blond

Landon was one of the producers on LHOTP but the main producer was Ed Friendly and their production company is involved with this new show, too. Friendly had the rights, not Landon. And, no, it wasn't for one book. The pilot movie was actually based on the book named Little House on the Prairie. The series was originally based on characters and situations from the next book, On The Banks of Plum Creek, covering their time living in Minnesota. But, there are elements from later books that show up, with the main one being Almanzo Wilder. They also added some real life Ingalls family stuff. And, obviously, just made up some crazy ass shit like the scary clown and the blind school fire. And, Mary getting married. And, Pa's idiotic perm hairdo and thick layer of makeup.

Pa kept uprooting his family in a neverending search for a blow comb.

Looking at OP's pic, I never realized before just how swarthy Michael Landon was. I like now more than I liked back then.

That "swarth" came out of a spray gun.

I always thought it would be cool if the actors who played Almanzo and Laura would reprise their roles as middle aged/elderly. When Laura was writing her books and living at Rocky Ridge farm and Rose would help her write them. I wonder who would make a good Rose as a woman approaching middle age?

Melissa Gilbert is now the right age for them to do a movie about Laura's writing career and complicated relationship with Rose.

They should cast Melissa Gilbert as the little old troll like woman who lives in the woods. They drag her out to try her as a witch and Rob Lowe shows up at the end to save her.

Why does Michael Landon look like he is from Bangladesh in that pic?

Michael Landon = Eugene Maurice Orowitz, tiny Jewish bed wetter from Forest Hills.

R147 I think it was Alison who mentioned in an interview that Landon didn't buy all the rights to the entire series & just wanted to do his own spin from the first couple of books = Albert's debut, Mary's independence, marriage to Adam & Mary's baby.

R156 Again, Landon didn't buy the rights; Ed Friendly did. He was the original producer and Landon came on later. Eventually, Friendly and Landon fell out and Friendly left as an active on set producer but he still owned it. And, the Friendly family apparently still owns some rights because Ed Friendly's son is part of the new Netflix project.

R127 the real Laura wasn’t plain

The real Laura, for a woman of that era, was an attractive woman. Ma had a face that would stop a clock and the rest of the girls weren't far behind.

Was the real Pa swarthy?

The real Pa looked like what we used to call a hipster: tall, wiry, unkempt, stringy beard. Probably stunk like a hipster too.

Pa’s beard smelled like Ma’s pussy.

My pussy smelled like lemon verbena and freshly churned butter!

[quote]And, Pa's idiotic perm hairdo and thick layer of makeup.

Pa Ingalls was a dirt poor 19th century pioneer farmer but Michael Landon as Pa Ingalls was a permed, styled, blow-dried and spary-tanned 1970s Southern California guy. He looked like he should've been on his way to a swingers' party in the Hollywood Hills, instead of shoveling pig shit in a barn on the prairie.

In honor of "The Loneliest Runner, "the autobiographical TV movie Landon did about being a bedwetter (starring Lance Kerwin, Brian Keith, and Melissa Sue Anderson), Pa should be a bedwetter in this version of "Prairie."

Pa should be a bedwetter and....

MA LIKES IT!!!!!

These Happy Golden Showers was my favorite after The Long Winter.

Since they just announced the Buffy reboot, I think they should combine the two into: NELLIE OLESEN: 1880 VAMPIRE SLAYER

Mary Ingalls could be a blind superhero, like Daredevil, in the urban spinoff WINOKA.

R154 - no sunscreen - good thing he died young or he would have looked like Caroline Kennedy!

Shitbra Gilbert tells off Megyn the racist!

Spare me, I couldn't stand that cornball shit the first time after watching one episode. My late spouse thought that Highway to Hell, oops, Heaven, was the worst shit on tv he ever saw. Michael Landon was hot but his tv shows were not.

Yes, hotness is so subjective...one man's "oooooh! Michael Landon was hot!" is another man's "Jesus God, I'm gonna puke!""

Barbecued dwarf with a Jewfro.

Bump

Well, I’ve lost all hope for a more faithful adaptation of the books.

Apparently, the new show will have a Native American family living somewhere near where the Ingalls’ live.

The black doctor is accurate but he was just around for a very short time.

I guess the writers aren't aware of Ma's virulent anti-Indian racism.

I would have liked to see the first few episodes cover Little House in the Big Woods as the origin story, then they could cover the trek out west and Pa's building of the house in Kansas, the fever 'n' ague, etc. The whole prairie story.

The Olesons made the show in the same way Will and Grace were overshadowed by Jack and Karen. Pa was a loser and poor provider. His main assets were hair, bronzed and waxed chest, and fiddle playing’. . Ma should have dumped him for Gil Gerard’s handyman character on that one episode.

Yeah I always felt pa was a loser. And he cried like a bitch.

Well, looking back on the whole, real saga, it does turn out that Pa was a significant failure at many things he did. He wasn’t a good farmer (Mother Nature had a big part to play of course) but it seemed they weee always struggling to get by.

They should have never left Wisconsin.

It really does take a village, especially in those early days of frontier life. He couldn’t do it all. Three little girls couldn’t cut it.

Not to kick a man while he’s down but he couldn’t even produce boys. 🫤

Didn’t they move so many times because of pa being irrational?

They originally moved away from Wisconsin, their cozy house, and Caroline's (I believe) extended family, because Charles started hearing other peoples' guns in the Big Woods from a distance. He thought that was too close for the rugged, isolated life he wanted.

I think Anya Taylor-Joy should play Nellie Oleson

My family has carpet!

Lol. I love Harriet and Nellie.

Same r184. Nellie was the best part of the entire show.

My favorite book out there that examines the family within their historical context is ‘Prairie Fires: The Life and Times of Laura Ingalls Wilder’ by Caroline Fraser. It also delves into the life of Laura’s daughter Rose, and there’s a lot of Libertarian leanings shared by the entire family. If I recall, Pa moved his family at least nine times after the Big Woods in Pepin, Wisconsin (in the gorgeous Driftless unglaciated region) before ended up in God-forsaken DeSmet, South Dakota where most of the family is now buried. He really was a loser and did many unscrupulous things including making false land claims, trying to illegally settle in Indian lands, and running off in the middle of the night to escape debts when living in Iowa. Laura and Almonzo continued the trek experience moving around before settling in a racist Sundown town in Missouri. They even made a brief weird move to the panhandle of Florida. There were many scammy development schemes back then to advertise people to move to shit places. This family seemed to be easily conned to up roots and move constantly. They’d all certainly be hardcore MAGA today based on their political and social beliefs. All the media portrayals sugarcoat the hard edges and bleakness and awkward social mores. Even Laura’s original books are toned down versus the likely reality.

Well, it seems the sugar-coating will continue, R186.

It’s gonna be some rainbow-connection propaganda shit show.

I actually asked a great-great nephew or something of Laura that has an insta account if he could tell me if the new series was gonna be more loyal to the books but he just liked my comment. 🫤

Country girls!