Soraya Nadia McDonald

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Pop Culture Happy Hour · Little House on the Prairie · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Yes.

That's one of the things that always draws me to these is just thinking about how people got through in these 19th century lives where you were going somewhere where you may not necessarily see another human for

days at a time, depending on where you end up settling, where you really are dependent on your wits, on being able to improvise and not panic.

You have to have some sense.

And thinking about the effects that that has on two children, one of whom is maybe a tween and the other one who is

is kind of heading into puberty with Laura and Mary, who are still clinging – well, at least their mother is kind of clinging to these ideals of – she still wants them to be at least kind of ladylike.

And all these things that are sort of fighting with each other as you are literally raising a house from scratch, right?

Where you are starting with a campsite and sort of a makeshift –

kitchen and a fire, some horses, and then you are having to clear the land.

You are the one who is building this cabin.

All of these things that just take a tremendous amount of time and effort and energy.

One of the things actually that I kept thinking about as I was watching wasn't just the books, which is I had more familiarity with the books than I did with the TV show.

But the other thing, because I grew up watching so much public television, was that I was thinking about Frontier House.

Ah, love that show.

And then was also thinking about the HBO Max series, the reality series, Back to the Frontier, right?

When you take these three modern day American families and say, here, try this out.

And just how difficult it is, how

how much your days are filled from sunup to sundown with

Everything that you've got to do to survive.

I liked that there was a diversity of opinions about the settlers, right?

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