SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the “Little House on the Prairie” reboot through Episode 2, now streaming on Netflix.
Few things are as scary to OG “Little House on the Prairie” viewers as Laura Ingalls’ childhood bully, Nellie Oleson, on a bad day. But Netflix’s 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.
In Episode 2 of Netflix’s new “Little House on the Prairie” 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 “Ma” Caroline (Crosby Fitzgerald) and “Pa” Charles (Luke Bracey) scramble to find them, the girls happen upon a trio of nefarious looking people in the woods — including Ida, played by Alison Arngrim, the actress best known for her role as Nellie Oleson on NBC’s “Little House on the Prairie.”
Alison Arngrim as Ida in “Little House on the Prairie”
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