Netflix · 1974 · Series
Little House on the Prairie
A father, a mother, and their girls make a farm and a town on the Minnesota prairie.
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The standard, filmed. Work, a house, prayer, a town, and something left in the ground for the people after them.
This is the nearest thing on the modern shelf to the household the meter is measuring. Charles works. Caroline keeps the inside of the world in order. The girls are taught, corrected, and loved without being asked to raise their parents. The town is small enough that a cruelty is everybody's business. Some later episodes chase a disaster because television gets hungry. The early years do not need the disaster. A crop, a schoolhouse, and a Sunday will do.
Put it on. Start at the beginning. Let the youngest stay for the ones about a harvest and a hymn, and be in the room when an episode turns hard. Then go outside and do one chore the house will still be using in the morning.
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Give a child a real job this week that the household will notice if it is left undone.
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The eight
Industry
10/10
Plowing, hunting, teaching, milling. The day is made of jobs a house can eat.
Household
10/10
The Ingalls table is the government of the story. Children are the point of the labor, not the audience for it.
Piety
9/10
Grace at the table, church, and a conscience that can overrule a mood. It is the family's air.
Courage
9/10
Charles walks into weather, debt, and other people's trouble because the alternative is not being a man.
Republic
8/10
Walnut Grove argues, votes, fails, and still has to live together the next morning.
Temperance
9/10
Want is real. Waste is a sin they can feel. Feasts are rare and therefore serious.
Truth
8/10
The hardest episodes are about a lie or a pride that has to be walked back in public.
Stewardship
10/10
A claim, a school, a name. They are planting what they will not all live to sit under.
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