‘Little House on the Prairie’ Stars Dean Butler & Alison Arngrim Respond to Megyn Kelly’s “Wokeify” Tweet Criticizing Reboot

Seemingly as soon as Netflix announced that they would be producing a new version of beloved ’70s series Little House on the Prairie, former Fox News and NBC News host Megyn Kelly took to X.com to announce, “@Netflix if you wokeify Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.” But as original Little House stars Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler told ReMIND, the show was always “woke” — and in fact, that sensitivity might actually be part of the secret of its success.

“Well, the [original] show was about as woke as you could get for 1974,” says Arngrim. “We dealt with … everything on Little House on the Prairie from drug addiction to racism, to sexism, to spousal abuse.”