sic transit gloria mundi

Why is Ma's hair down when we're leaving the Big Woods?? Caroline Ingalls wouldn't be caught dead with her hair down in public

How old is Mary??? She looks waaaaay older than Mary should be here

Glad we're keeping with the tradition of Pa being hot. Real life Charles Ingalls had a scraggly beard, and yet in the tradition of oiled up, shirtless Michael Landon, I'm fine with this

Yeah this is definitely suffering from Hallmark hair, but I'll deal with it so long as in a few seasons they give me a truer depiction of Almanzo

Not sure how I feel about them trying to include a friendship between Laura and an Osage girl, because it feels a bit like trying to whitewash the Ingalls family's very complicated relationship with Native Americans in real life

OH MARY SO WOULD HAVE SNITCHED ON LAURA FOR SO MANY THINGS BY NOW, ESPECIALLY THE SHOVING

W H A T are these bonnets and why do they look 3D printed 💀

Ugh, I don't like this antagonistic bent they've given Laura and Mary's relationship, especially because part of what infuriated Laura so much about Mary until Mary lost her sight was Mary's very prideful goodness. Mary wouldn't be openly unkind to Laura, because it would go against her ethos of being a "good girl"

...now be serious with me about this random wolf attack. This is Little House, not Yellowstone 1883. Was this in the book? I don't remember a gun wielding Caroline facing down a pack of angry wolves in the book

I'm very much enjoying all the singing, especially where they take songs directly from the books

I appreciate how they have Pa and Ma being so affectionate with each other. They're clearly very in love in the books, so it's nice that was carried over

Do NOT enjoy the Mary crushing on random boys subplot. That wouldn't even be on her mind

The Osage man whose name we haven't been given yet 👀. Well hellooooooo

Everyone's eyebrows are too nice and it's distracting me. I am however keeping notes to give my aesthetician next time I get mine done

The story of this Osage family already has me hooked

Oh so we're just dropping a giant log on Caroline now. Okay then.

Making Laura a storyteller is sort of a baffling choice. I see why they did it, but it undermines the beauty of her learning to be descriptive after having to "see" for Mary

No one came to say goodbye???? What the hell???? That's PATENTLY untrue

Real life Caroline would have already set the girls to washing dishes and collecting buffalo chips instead of all this carrying on lmao

Oh so Carrie WILL be in this lol

Dr. Tan is also incredibly good looking. Like. Just saying that for the record. I'm starting to think this will fill the "hot people in inaccurate period clothing" void for a while

Awww Charles is being very sweet

I'm not mad at them suggesting that Caroline has dealt with multiple pregnancy losses because if you consider the time period and the struggles the Ingalls girls had with having children later on in life, it makes plenty of sense

Okay so they've made Mr. Edward's hot, too. And also crazy. I can fix him.

Okay but when IS Jack coming back????

It's very funny to me that they're creating moments of danger more in line with the first tv show instead of, you know, the actual dangers the Ingalls family faced

Caroline, girl, I get why you left everything behind for this man, that's all

What is this "everything that happened"? Why is the government whipping up a frenzy and incentivizing people to "settle" the west not motivation enough??? Are they doing the "running out on their debts" thing NOW? Because that would be a...choice

I feel ABYSMAL every time Caroline mentions giving Charles a son

Now in what universe is Caroline telling Charles to sell her books. Absolutely not.

As an aside, I really wish we'd gotten to see more of the wagon journey. That was always my favorite part of the book

I think this show could have really benefited from narration from a mature Laura, ala Call the Midwife with mature Jenny narrating. We lose a bit not being in Laura's head for everything. My dream adaptation opens with an older Laura setting out to memorialize her family (as irl Laura did), then fading into the story as she begins writing. It would also help keep that idea that these are characters based on real people, sure, but this IS still a story

That shot of Charles playing the fiddle in front of the campfire is gorgeous

It irks me when they have Laura wear blue even though I know that's irrational lol. Blue was always Mary's color in the books!!!

These costumes are very Generic Historical Prairie. They're...fine, but I mourn the fully costumed version that lives in my head. Laura may have hated sewing, but she described clothing with such loving detail in her books that I long to see it fully realized

JACK!!! JACK IS BACK!!!

Oooooh I actually really enjoy them hinting at the eventual need to leave Kansas because the government *doesn't* come and kick the Osage off their land. We know it's coming, but the reality of it hitting Charles is delicious

And that's episode one! I'll maybe be back with episode two, but at the very least, this has been fun. For book accuracy, I'd give it a C, but for enjoyment watching it's an A-. This show is pretty to look at so far, and the deviations from the source material are engaging enough that I'm not as irritated by them as I thought I'd be. That averages this out to...about a B-? Yeah, that seems fair for the first episode.