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We've got rants about pants! Nugs! (Ugh.) Alec Baldwin! TV asteroids! SHRIMP FRAUD!
Broads of our generation, are you ready for another piece of your childhood to get trampled on — potentially — by modern producers? Strap in, because Little House on the Prairie is getting the reboot treatment.
Deadline reports that Netflix picked up a treatment for a new series whose first season will be based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first book. The primary showrunner has worked on The Vampire Diaries and The Boys, and believe me, nothing screams Half-Pint like a show where a dude apparently started plucking his pubic hairs and putting them in a jar.
Okay, fine, there’s no reason to think this showrunner won’t do a good job or that Charles or Caroline Ingalls will suddenly peel off their faces, or perform self-analingus.1 Netflix did a great job with The Baby-Sitters Club before rudely cancelling it after two seasons, and one of those showrunners moved on to the very different Hacks, after all. We contain multitudes! And it’s been a very, very long time since this intellectual prope…