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Netflix is making a Little House on the Prairie reboot. “The series will offer a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.” A manifest destiny series for 2025 seems about right…

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Carla

I loved this series as a little girl and wanted to wander the outdoors and experience snow so deep it covered trains, just like the kids in the books. I found the Prairie Fires book to be a good start to reconsidering the influence the series had on me and so many people. In particular, I learned a lot about the Dakota Wars (is that even an ok name?) a part of history my education did not cover.

A reconsideration of the stories within the context of the larger history could be really interesting. This sounds like a job for a Greta Gerwig / Sterlin Harjo collaboration?

JD Stephens

Despite having loved the books as a child, and knowing nothing about the showrunner nor any of the "wholesome and heartwarming stories" the article references, my prediction for this given the current politico-social climate is that we are in for a heapin' helpin' of corn-fed tradwife propaganda.

Danielle NH

ugh. so true.

Carla

I really want Amy’s speech from Little Women combined with the incisive perspective of the community in Reservation Dogs. We will probably get something about how fun it is to sew your own dresses. Yuck.

Jason KottkeMOD

I was thinking of Reservation Dogs too.

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Alana Cloutier

I live just up the road from where they had a house on Osage land. The encounters they had with you know, the owners of the land they were squatting on, (much discussed in the books, if I recall) was because Pa basically built their house on the dang Osage Trail. Good job, Pa.

Jason KottkeMOD

I remember reading the books to/with my kids when they were younger and a big takeaway was Pa was kind of a dick. Always moving the family around when no one else wanted to uproot their lives, etc.

Carla

That’s generally the takeaway about Pa in Prairie Fires. Also that he was a bad farmer.

Mary Wallace Edited

Well, Pa was a crummy farmer and the patriarch in Little Women leaves his family impoverished, yet both are idolized by their wives and daughters. Seriously?? Why do filmmakers keep returning to these stories?

Bob Walicki

IDK. Dude was a mother'f'n angel!!! Who are we to question his ways!

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