‘Little House on the Prairie’ Two-Part Episode Rewrites the Series

When you think of Little House on the Prairie, images of the Ingalls girls running down a grassy hill probably come to mind. Netflix is betting on that cozy nostalgia with an upcoming adaptation that was already renewed for Season 2 ahead of its Season 1 premiere on July 9.

Still, not every episode of the original series is uplifting; the sixth-season two-parter "May We Make Them Proud" stands out for its brutality. What begins as a fundraiser for the local blind school, run by Mary and her husband Adam Kendall, turns nightmarish after Albert and another boy smoke a pipe in the basement and a fire starts.

Mary leaves the baby behind; Alice Garvey goes back inside to rescue the child but becomes trapped and, alongside the baby, is burned alive. Mary, Adam, Hester-Sue, and the children can only hear her screams, and the show exposes some of Alice's final moments as she tries to break through a window, a sequence that many viewers find hard to watch.

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