This summer, Netflix brought Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular series of books “Little House on the Prairie” back to the small screen with a new 8-episode show. For this episode, we explore this adaptation with Wilder expert and author Pamela Smith Hill. We discuss why generations keep coming back to this story about the American frontier, the modern critiques of Wilder’s books which were largely written in the 1930s, and how this series compares to the beloved NBC adaptation.

This summer, Netflix brought Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular series of books “Little House on the Prairie” back to the small screen with a new 8-episode show. For this episode, we explore this adaptation with Wilder expert and author Pamela Smith Hill.  We discuss why generations keep coming back to this story about the American frontier, the modern critiques of Wilder’s books which were largely written in the 1930s, and how this series compares to the beloved NBC adaptation.    

Netflix’s "Little House on the Prairie"

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