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TV Is Good, Episode 9: Are 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'Deadwood' the same show?

Exploring the American frontier with Charles Ingalls and Al Swearengen

TV Is Good, Episode 9: Are 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'Deadwood' the same show?

It's Monday, which means it's time for another episode of the TV Is Good podcast, where Kathryn VanArendonk and I look at notable television shows from the present and the past. In this week's episode, Kathryn and I dig into Netflix's Little House on the Prairie revival, her long and complicated history with Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, and more.

Review: Can Netflix’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ blaze a new trail?
A new adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic children’s novels reckons with the complications of 19th century pioneer life

So far, we've tried to thematically pair our current and classic segments. Given how much the new Little House dwells on the idea of the Ingalls family moving into stolen Osage land, the best comparison we could come up with was... well, I'll let Al Swearengen tell you:

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Alan Sepinwall

Alan Sepinwall

Alan Sepinwall is a TV critic and editor of What's Alan Watching? His books include The Revolution Was Televised, The Sopranos Sessions, TV (THE BOOK), Breaking Bad 101, Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill, and Welcome to The O.C.