There is a certain kind of Hollywood writer who reads a beloved American story, decides it is a problem to be solved, and then spends millions of dollars solving it. Meet Rebecca Sonnenshine, showrunner of Netflix's new "Little House on the Prairie," who looked at Laura Ingalls Wilder's tale of a family carving a life out of the Kansas grass and concluded that what it really needed was less family, less carving, and a great deal more finger-wagging.
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