
How ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Showrunner Crafted “Compelling” Fever Dream Flashbacks To Fill In “Stakes” Of Ingalls Family Backstory
- Little House showrunner turned a malaria episode into backstory-revealing fever dreams.
- Ma and Pa's hallucinations show why the family left Wisconsin alone.
- Laura resists the fever longest before glimpsing her Wisconsin grandmother.
Netflix's new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie devotes its fourth episode to a malaria outbreak that strikes the Ingalls family in Independence, Kansas, and showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine has explained how she dramatised the ordeal. Rather than simply depicting characters bedridden with fever — which she felt…








