![]() Oleson and her brat Nellie soon end up seeming like sedated lambs. With the passing of each episode, plots become increasingly hardcore and blatantly sadistic, and Though perhaps not entirely historically accurate, the show gave us a sense of how frontier families lived, farmed, worked, hunted and had sex in the same room where entire families slept. (Let’s not pretend we didn’t all immediately rush to find out what the hell they used for toilet paper in the 1800s). It taught us about life among settlers in the post-Civil War era, and what we didn’t infer from the show we were inspired to learn on our own. ![]() It served up a slice of morality with every episode, mostly through the unfailing wisdom of the sensitive-but-violent-when-necessary Charles Ingalls, played by Michael Landon's shirtless torso.īased on the memoirs of Laura Ingalls-Wilder, the show was a history lesson. The 1970s classic series ran until 1983, coincidentally about the time the first round of true crime fever was peaking. #texasweather #texas- Black Moira Rose AugBut Little House will traumatize you with so much more than with its depiction of the cruelties of pre-internet life. I then I acted like I was on Little House On The Prairie for an hour. ![]() The power went out at my house due to storms. No AC, no wifi, what is this little house on the prairie?- BarstoolSimpson April 6, 2021 In February, Texas had a taste - or rather, big gulp - of old-timey life with the mass power outages, and the show became a perfect fit for memes depicting the struggle. Think back on the retro TV series, which was set in late-1800s Minnesota, and it'll likely stir up a discomforting image of a hard, sad life without WiFi and Netflix. If you’re looking to be traumatized by television but don't want to follow the herd, before you search for the next brutal crime story, consider revisiting the most terrifying, deceptive, disturbing show television has ever produced: Little House on the Prairie. Not to jump the gun or anything but I watch true crime documentaries on the first date.- Parasite Hilton March 6, 2018 An affinity for crime TV is now something we brag about as a “quirky” personality trait, though it's common as dirt. Making a Murderer, The Jinx, Abducted in Plain Sight and Don’t Fuck With Cats entertain, scare us and let us feel virtuous, at least compared to the evil on the screen. More than 1.6 million print copies of true-crime books were sold in 2018, compared to 976,000 copies in 2016, industry figures show." How much do we like them? According to Time: "When Serial launched in 2014, it became the fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads and streams in iTunes’ history. (Women like them more than men, generally, partly because women find them useful for tips about how to avoid becoming crime victims themselves, Forbes reported, which we hope is the saddest sentence we'll publish this week.) The genre's revival - it had its first heyday in the '80s - has raised questions about both who the audience is and why we find true-crime documentaries so fascinating. ![]() Thanks to the pandemic, some trends solidified into routine parts of our lives: Zoom meetings, outdoor concerts, online shopping and an insatiable thirst for bloody crime.Īs if the world wasn't scary enough, gorging ourselves on the goriest and most shocking crime stories became a common pandemic pastime. ![]()
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