Little House on the Prairie has always been "woke," according to the original Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Melissa Gilbert, who played the original NBC series' heroine, defended both her rendition of the show and Netflix's new reboot after conservative personality Megyn Kelly threatened last year to "absolutely ruin" the modern adaptation if the streamer were to "wokeify" the story.
"Did you watch the original?" Gilbert responded in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published on Friday, July 10. "Have you seen the episode ‘The Wisdom of Solomon?’ I don’t think we get more woke than that.’"
"The Wisdom of Solomon," which aired in 1977, is widely considered to be a milestone moment in TV history and starred a young Todd Bridges as a young boy named Solomon, the son of poor sharecroppers, who is run off after stealing a book in a desperate attempt to learn how to read.
While Solomon was banned from his local school because he's Black, the Ingalls family takes him in and enrolls him in school with Laura (Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), as the show sends a strong message about tolerance and racism.
Gilbert previously responded to Kelly's January 2025 X post about Netflix's take on Little House on the Prairie, encouraging the former Fox News host to "watch any episode on any streaming platform anywhere in the world" to see just how progressive the original show was.
“Apparently Megyn tweeted (I’m not on that platform) asking that Netflix not ‘woke-Ify’ their Little House remake,” Gilbert continued in a series of messages on Threads shortly after Kelly's original post was written. “Ummm…watch the original again. TV doesn’t get too much more ‘woke’ than we did. We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and every other ‘woke ‘ topic you can think of. Thank you very much."
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