Netflix's Little House on the Prairie adaptation premieres
Somebody (Rebecca Onion) didn't read the books. If they read the books, they would know the Black doctor is in the books. He nurses the Ingalls family through malaria. He's based on a real Black doctor who lived near the Ingalls family in Independence, KS, REBECCA ONION slate.com/culture/2026...
G. Willow Wilson218(Reposted because I was thinking Laura Ingalls while I was writing Rebecca Onion 😂😭)
'Swas115Thank you for sending me down a Dr. George Tann rabbit hole. He delivered Laura's sister! (Also, it was blackberries.) littlehouseontheprairie.com/dr-george-a-...
B72A while back, the BBC did a Three Musketeers series with Porthos played by a(n incredibly hot) Black dude. All the usual suspects FREAKED. THE FUCK. OUT. Not one of them realised the original book was fucking *written* by a Black guy...
Linda Holmes62Honestly, it’s worse than that, because you don’t even have to have read the books. The stuff about the doctor has been in all the interviews and press materials and background that’s out there about the show.
Buttadeus62Yeah the challenge here is if they can make the Ingalls recognizable without being racist against the Osage
Dey (they/them)57"Woke" and it's literally just a show being factual, respectful and responsible.
Brendel651A very common thing in our society is a kind of assumed belief that people of different races and sexualities first started appearing anywhere as early as the 1930’s to as late as the 1987 film Mannequin
Movies Silently129This reminds me of that attempt to make trouble over a Sikh officer in 1917 (2019). “Political Correctness! Woke!” And they were flooded with photos of Sikh men serving in Europe during WWI
Phoenix Calida77Idk know how many more times that we see examples to understand that anti woke is anti black Literally anything that is woke just means Blakc were involved and they weren't happy to be slaves A black doctor? A negro could never be a real doctor! A black pilot? Woke A black professional? Woke!
The Nerdskull47Slate doing Nazi style white supremacist stuff is kinda ironic.
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)42Lmao this is what happens when you don't bother to google the thing you're writing about. Always fact check before you submit!
KidzBoptotenlieder17Turns out the past is actually much woker and weirder than boring racists think it is
neuse river hag16fascinating to see a review accept republicans' white nationalist turn so thoroughly that it misunderstands straightforward conservative propaganda as "woke"
Chris “Chance!” Brown10The weirdest part is that you don’t even have to have read the book to understand that there were black people in America at that time or that they would also possibly be doctors.
HyveMynd8This article made me want to reread the books. I had the whole set as a kid — a gift, probably — but as a kid I didn't really understand them. I want to read them again now that I know Ingalls Wilder is stitching together rose-tinted childhood memories.
QuadCityPat7Not to mention Osage nation people
The woke Little House on the Prairie is just the mirror image of original deeply reactionary version, in that both are ahistorical fantasies. *Nobody* in American wants to to see the real truth of this period of history depicted.
Upside Downie7Someone should make a realistic version of it. I'd watch that.
Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems2It seems that much "historical drama/fiction is about what ppl want to see & hear about, at the time the drama is produced. Trying to keeping the customer satisfied. And most customers aren't historians.
Bill Lindeke1American Primeval does a decent job of that.
Winnie Frolik1I’m not watching it. Now otoh if they ever did an adaption of Prairie Fires or even The Schoolhouse Blizzard…
I think the new Netflix LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE that’s out today is probably the best-case scenario for adapting that material. With that said, it still centers who it centers, and I’m not sure there’s anything that even the best intentions and execution can do about that. A good effort.
Linda Holmes42We will have a PCHH episode on it next week.
Julia Azari16those books were, like, my only friends as a kid and i just need to not revisit it in any way, with the perspective i have now. I did make a banger of a construction paper log cabin in 1988 though.
Phil1Putting a “Charles” in Killers of the Flower Moon would’ve been a nod to their encroachment on Osage land.
i've always been a Little House hater but i can't imagine rebooting this, of all things, in the year 2026
jadehawk "FREE ŁINK"20what i wish on the world is a honest reboot of this, with all the racism involved in the frontier stories laid out openly instead of brushed under the carpet. no one would watch it, but it would make so many horrible people very annoyed
Seldom Seen Smith18The only positive is that the Osage Nation apparently have been involved in its production, though to what extent I don’t know. But it appears to have the tribe’s blessing, at least officially. osagenews.org/community-in...
Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies17We're due something about how Pa Ingalls was a goddamn jackass and attempted con-man, but I doubt this will be it.
Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her)15Right? I've been dreading this. This interview gave me some hope. A bait and switch version of this white nationalist story would be pretty amazing. Hope it works & it's impossible for viewers to use it to idolize white pioneers. www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...
HadesDogWalker13I hope they take the opportunity to highlight what a dumbfuck Pa was and how the family constantly was constantly on the edge of death from illness, crop failure, and extreme weather. Just really lean into how horrible homesteading actually was and is to kill people's romanticism.
em³elee.strange6"Rugged individualism blah blah blah"
Joanne Freeman84Hooooo boy. Little House on the Prairie: Rebooted
Will Hayward2"... an Osage family adjusting to their own new way of life as settlers claim parts of their land. Laura strikes up a friendship with an Osage girl, and there’s a mutual respect among Charles and the Osage family patriarch." Well I'm sure that's Charles's take on their relationship.
And the live TV gone be episodes of Little House On The Prairie and Bonanza. Watch.
🖕🏿🫵🏿1The laugh I just busted out 🤣
Dr. Love AWN1You know they’re already reviving Little House on A Prairie!!!!
sass @ merry selchmas1a christmas story 24/7 for all of november and december
Fern Mayo1Lol. I bought Little house on the prairie on DVD. I love that show
The Champ is here!!!!1Lmao....they gonna have M*A*S*H on repeat
