Tradwives and ‘anti-woke’ backlash: can Netflix reboot Little House on The Prairie for a new generation?

After the classic series became a pandemic-era smash, a glossy new adaptation aims to explore the complexities of frontier life Each incarnation of Little House on the Prairie has reflected the fears, hopes and hangups of its time – from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-autobiographical children’s novels, first published in the wake of the Great Depression, to the television series they inspired, which premiered amid a recession and an oil crisis in 1974. Netflix’s reboot, premiering on 9 July, is...

By Matthew Allan