Netflix’s newly released "Little House on the Prairie" reboot is facing claims it has turned the beloved story into a politically correct overhaul, with the show’s creator addressing "woke" concerns.The eight-episode season premiered on Thursday to generally favorable reviews, sitting at a 75% critic score but a less enthusiastic 58% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.However, accusations of the show being "woke" flew before it even aired, and now the creator and showrunner of the reboot, Rebecca Sonnenshine, is pushing back, saying people are "worried for no reason.""I’m not even sure what ‘woke’ means to people anymore, to be honest," Sonnenshine told Variety.
"I know what I think it means, which is the definition of it being aware and alert to social injustice and prejudice, in particular racial prejudice.So, when people say, ‘I hope it’s not woke,’ I think, ‘Really? Oh, that’s interesting.’ But I don’t think people are using it in that manner."'LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE' RETURNS AS NEW NETFLIX ADAPTATION AIMS FOR WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENTA screenshot from Netflix’s teaser trailer for the new "Little House on the Prairie" reboot features the Ingalls family.
(Screenshot/YouTube Netflix)"I think it’s just become a catch-all word for things that I don’t quite understand.If I had to sum it up, what people are afraid of is that something from their childhood will be portrayed in a way that scares them," she added.The show is based on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s "Little House" books and follows the legacy of the original TV series, which ran in the 1970s and lasted for nearly a decade.
It centers around the Ingalls family as they leave Wisconsin to create a new homestead near Independence, Kansas, on the 1800s frontier.DISNEY FACES ANOTHER BOX OFFICE SHIPWRECK WITH 'MOANA' REMAKE ON TRACK TO FOLLOW 'SNOW WHITE' TO THE BOTTOMThe cast of the original "Little House on the Prairie" television series includes Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls, K...