Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Little House on the Prairie’

Here are three more reasons “Little House” has been on heavy rotation in my Los Angeles apartment in recent weeks:

The Simplicity

Things get weird in later seasons, like when Laura and her sensitive brother, Albert, hop a train to San Francisco and bump into William Randolph Hearst. (Confession: Albert, played by Matthew Labyorteaux, was my fourth-grade crush. Va-va-voom.) But most early episodes, the ones where the Ingalls children are young, have uncomplicated, unhurried story lines — Mary loses her nickel, Laura goes fishing — that transport me to a more carefree time. Suddenly, the world is a place of wonder again. I can feel the grass on my bare feet.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/arts/television/stream-tv-little-house-prairie.html