"Little House on the Prairie"
New star Alice Halsey draws a bead on a bunny in “Little House on the Prairie,” from Netflix

"Little House on the Prairie"

This sincere but sluggish reboot of a children’s classic is stirring up a cultural firestorm about how we really were yesteryear on the wild frontier.

By Peter Travers

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★★½ (2½ out of 4)

Before the Netflix reboot of “Little House on the Prairie,” from the semi-autobiographical 1930s children’s novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, even made its eight-episode debut this week, podcasting gadfly Megyn Kelly issued a warning on X: "If you woke-ify ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”

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