Melissa Gilbert reacts to Megyn Kelly ‘Little House on the Prairie’ anti-‘woke’ reboot comment

Little House on the Prairie alum Melissa Gilbert took notice of Megyn Kelly‘s response to Wednesday’s news of a planned reboot on Netflix.

Just after it was announced, the former Fox News journalist and current host of The Megyn Kelly Show, tagged Netflix in an X post that said, “if you wokeify Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”

Gilbert, who starred in the family drama for its entire run, from 1974 to 1983, responded with her own social media post,

“Apparently Megyn tweeted (I’m not on that platform) asking that Netflix not ‘woke-ify’ their Little House remake,” wrote Gilbert, who played main character Laura “Half-pint” Ingalls.

“Ummm…watch the original again. TV doesn’t get too much more ‘woke’ than we did. We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and every other ‘woke’ topic you can think of,” Gilbert wrote.

She captioned it, “Watch any episode on any streaming platform anywhere in the world” and tagged Kelly.

Little House was wildly popular and continues to draw fans to reunion events. Steered by executive producer and star Michael Landon, the series did not shy away from uncomfortable topics. It might have been allowed to get away with it in primetime TV — it originally aired on NBC, though reruns over the years have been ubiquitous — perhaps because it was packaged in the sweet story of a hard-working family struggling to make their way in late-1800s America.

While Little House was originally based on the series of books of the same name by the real-life Laura Ingalls Wilder, who recounted her childhood in them, Landon and company often got creative. Now streaming on Peacock, the show depicts, for instance, the effects of body shaming and the struggles of the disabled. So it’s become internet fodder to talk about the darker side of the Emmy-winning series, which preceded even so-called “very special episodes” that dealt with previously taboo topics.

Details of the planned Netflix project haven’t been released — just that it’s been ordered. The streamer did say that it would be based on Wilder’s third Little House autobiographical book. The reboot will be based on the Ingalls family, which included Gilbert’s Laura, Landon’s Charles or “Pa,” Karen Grassle’s Caroline or “Ma,” and Laura’s sister Mary, who was played by Melissa Sue Anderson, Deadline, which broke the news, reported.

The new Little House will be executive produced by Trip Friendly, the son of the original show’s producer Ed Friendly. Rebecca Sonnenshine, writer and producer on The Boys and The Vampire Diaries., will serve as showrunner and executive producer.

No date for the series has been announced.