{"id":3971,"date":"2026-07-10T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:37:08","slug":"netflixs-little-house-on-the-prairie-writer-on-landing-fan-favorite-from-original-series-for-that-scary-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s \u2018Little House on the Prairie\u2019 Writer on Landing Fan Favorite From Original Series for That Scary Cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SPOILER ALERT:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>This article contains spoilers for the \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d reboot through Episode 2, now streaming on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3969\">Morgan Spector in Talks to Play Robert Langdon in Netflix Series From Carlton Cuse, Dan Brown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFew things are as scary to OG \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d viewers as Laura Ingalls\u2019 childhood bully, Nellie Oleson, on a bad day. But Netflix\u2019s updated take on the beloved story takes things to a very meta level with a spooky scene that pays tribute to that iconic pop culture nemesis.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn Episode 2 of Netflix\u2019s new \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d remake, young Laura Ingalls (Alice Halsey) and her big sister Mary (Skywalker Hughes) have become lost in the wild near their new home on the prairie in 1870s Independence, Kansas. While \u201cMa\u201d Caroline (Crosby Fitzgerald) and \u201cPa\u201d Charles (Luke Bracey) scramble to find them, the girls happen upon a trio of nefarious looking people in the woods \u2014 including Ida, played by Alison Arngrim, the actress best known for her role as Nellie Oleson on NBC\u2019s \u201cLittle House on the Prairie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile every version of \u201cLittle House\u201d is a story of survival, the Netflix show sticks to its family-friendly roots, with the scariest part of the scene being a dirty and disheveled Ida (Arngrim) attempting to hold the girls hostage until John Edwards (Warren Christie) quickly arrives to save the day. Still, it\u2019s a whole different side of Arngrim than audiences have seen before.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI always had this idea that I wanted Alison Arngrim to be in the show,\u201d \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine tells Variety. \u201cSo when I was writing Episode 2, I was telling a couple of my friends, \u2018I want to get Alison Arngrim to play this lady, do you think she\u2019d do it?\u2019 And they were like, \u2018maybe!\u2019 And then all this time later, when I actually got to make it, she said yes. I read her autobiography, and it\u2019s so good. She\u2019s so smart and cool and interesting and funny. And she did it; she came to the show and it was so exciting. She was such a good sport. She was like, \u2018Can I have more stuff on my teeth?\u2019 Sure! Go for it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnce Sonnenshine secured Arngirm\u2019s cameo, she had a hard time keeping it quiet \u2014 mostly because she forgot she had already told people about her dream casting.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThen one of my friends is like, \u2018Did you get Nellie?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018It was a big secret! Wait, who told you?\u2019 And they\u2019re like, \u2018You did!&#8217;\u201d Sonnenshine says. \u201cOh, right, I wanted to do this a long time. That\u2019s right, I forgot that two years ago, I\u2019m like, \u2018I want Nellie in my show, I wonder if she\u2019d do it?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3967\">Broadcast Emmy Woes, Lots of Martin Short, Bad Bunny and Other Trivia From 2026\u2019s Nominations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe fun inclusion of Arngrim as a villain is just one way the new \u201cLittle House\u201d pays homage to the original \u201cLittle House,\u201d which ran for nine seasons on NBC from 1974-1983. Sonnenshine has also met with multiple other members of the original cast, including Melissa Gilbert (who played Laura), and both shows are produced by the Friendly family through Friendly Family Productions.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201c[Executive producer] Trip Friendly is very involved with the cast from the original show and events, and I did get a chance to meet a lot of them,\u201d Sonnenshine says. \u201cI went to an event called \u2018LauraPalooza,\u2019 and I got to meet Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder) and Charlotte Stewart, who played Eva Beadle Simms, who was so fascinating. And one of the actresses that had played Grace (a role shared by Brenda Turnbaugh and Wendi Turnbaugh, now Wendi Lou Lee). So I did get to meet some of those people, and they were so nice and so excited. They\u2019re like, \u2018We\u2019re telling everybody to watch it!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut Sonnenshine, who calls Gilbert \u201cthe sweetest, loveliest person in the world\u201d and \u201can icon,\u201d is quick to remind that is not <em>her <\/em>Laura and \u201cwe don\u2019t own the original series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe don\u2019t license it. We don\u2019t have anything to do with it,\u201d Sonnenshine says. \u201cBut we will overlap, obviously, even with stuff that wasn\u2019t in the books, because we\u2019re drawing from real life, just like they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cLittle House\u201d has already been renewed for a second season at Netflix and is currently underway on its Season 2 episodes, which will feature the introduction of Willa Dunn as the new Nellie Oleson. But because Sonnenshine is first and foremost a fan of Wilder\u2019s \u201cLittle House\u201d book series that started it all, she\u2019s relying more on the text and less on referencing Arngrim\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI watched some of it as a kid, but I didn\u2019t have cable as a kid, so I didn\u2019t get to watch it all the time,\u201d Sonnenshine says. \u201cI had to see if the antenna would get it. And then I didn\u2019t get to see it in reruns because I didn\u2019t have cable, so I didn\u2019t really look at too much of the old series. I think I went back and looked at the pilot just to see what they did, but in general it\u2019s just from the books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3965\">Dakota and Elle Fanning Starrer \u2018The Nightingale\u2019 Moves to March, Facing Off Against \u2018Sonic 4\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Little House on the Prairie&#8221; reboot added in a cameo from a familiar face from the original NBC series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3246,232,3247],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-alison-arngrim","tag-just-watched","tag-little-house-on-the-prairie-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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