{"id":731077,"date":"2026-06-12T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731077\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:51:09","slug":"how-grim-is-this-trailer-for-netflixs-little-house-on-the-prairie-supposed-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731077\/","title":{"rendered":"How grim is this trailer for Netflix’s Little House On The Prairie supposed to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the many questions circulating around Netflix\u2019s plans to revive long-time TV institution\u00a0Little House On The Prairie\u2014plans it embarked upon in full last January<\/a>, around the time it noticed that like 220 million hours of the original series were getting watched on its servers every year\u2014tone has always been near the forefront. It\u2019s not like Michael Landon\u2019s original show<\/a>, which ran for nine seasons and a few movies on NBC in the 1970s and \u201980s\u2014was outright saccharine, for all that it was stamped firmly with Landon\u2019s Christian faith. But it\u00a0was\u00a0a series where most issues of frontier living could be dealt with with a little conversation, community and good cheer (at least, until it was time to blow shit up<\/a>), and it was unclear how much the new version of the show would alter that ethos in order to fit in with more modern TV attitudes.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a question that is not wholly resolved by the show\u2019s first trailer, which dropped on YouTube today, and which sees Luke Bracey\u2019s Charles Ingalls and Crosby Fitzgerald\u2019s Caroline Ingalls transport their daughters Laura (Alice Halsey) and Mary (Skywalker Hughes) to a tiny new community on the far edge of nowhere. And, sure, things are nice and pastoral\u2014as represented by Bracey\u2019s optimistic \u201cWe have Glenn Powell at home\u201d smile\u2014but also, dang, there sure are a lot of obvious CGI wolves in these woods, huh?<\/p>\n

Netflix\u2019s own marketing for the eight-episode series (which has already been renewed for a second season) promises that it\u2019ll be \u201cPart hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West,\u201d and that clearly includes reckoning with things like the native inhabitants all this free land grabbing is being grabbed from\u2014to say nothing of opening the possibility that you might tune in to Little House On The Prairie\u00a0one day to see the disease-ridden Ingalls family all lumped together in a frozen-to-death pile of crpses. That being said, series showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine did\u00a0give a statement to Netflix\u2019s Tudum <\/a>where she emphasized that the show \u201cis a love story about a family. They\u2019re a family you want to be with, you want to know, you want to spend time with,\u201d which does suggest that, seriousness of the hardships aside, the series won\u2019t be going full Donner Party any time soon.<\/p>\n

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