Netflix released a second teaser for its “Little House on the Prairie” reboot Monday, this one anchored in the Kansas town of Independence where Laura Ingalls and her family put down roots in the first season. TV Insider debuted the clip and a batch of new first-look photos as an exclusive.
The teaser opens on Alice Halsey’s Laura in voiceover. “Independence is a funny name for a town like this,” she says. “The truth is, none of us can make it alone here. The prairie is so big, and we’re so small. We need help from each other. Independence isn’t just a way of life. It’s a place to come together.” All eight episodes hit the streamer July 9, and the series, which Netflix renewed for a second season ahead of its debut, was set up under showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine with CBS Studios and Anonymous Content producing.
The clip is the streamer’s second teaser for the show. The first arrived April 13 with a different framing, leaning on the family’s departure from the Big Woods of Wisconsin and Laura’s “Once upon a time, Pa, and Ma, and Mary, and Laura” narration. This one shifts the focus to arrival, with new images of Charles (Luke Bracey) and Caroline (Crosby Fitzgerald) crossing paths with Dr. George Tann (Jocko Sims) in the woods, and Mitchell (Meegwun Fairbrother) riding alongside his daughter Good Eagle (Wren Zhawenim Gotts).
Season 1 is loosely structured around the third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s series, the 1935 novel “Little House on the Prairie,” and tracks the Ingalls family’s move from their Wisconsin farm to a log house in Montgomery County, Kansas, in 1869. The working title during production was “Independence,” and that is also the title of Episode 1.
“This show is a love story about a family,” Sonnenshine told Netflix’s Tudum. “They’re a family you want to be with, you want to know, you want to spend time with. That’s really at the core of what ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is about: a family that is there for each other, that tells stories to each other, tells stories about themselves.”
Halsey, who was cast in April 2025 after an open casting call, anchors the ensemble. Bracey plays Charles, Fitzgerald plays Caroline, and Skywalker Hughes plays older sister Mary. Warren Christie appears as John Edwards, Alyssa Wapanatǎhk as White Sun, and Xander Cole as Little Puma. Carrie, the youngest Ingalls daughter played by twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush in the NBC version, is not in Season 1. The character was not yet born during the family’s move to Kansas, and the new show is sticking closer to that timeline.
Sonnenshine, who came up as a writer on “The Boys,” “The Vampire Diaries,” and “Archive 81,” shares executive producer credits with Dana Fox, Susanna Fogel, Joy Gorman Wettels for Joy Coalition, and Trip Friendly for Friendly Family Productions. Trip Friendly’s father, Ed Friendly, produced the NBC series that ran from 1974 to 1983 with Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, and Melissa Sue Anderson.
Production ran from June 10 through October 2025 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with Sarah Adina Smith directing. Season 2 begins filming this summer, also in Winnipeg, per Hollywood North Buzz. The original NBC series still pulls audiences, 13.25 billion viewing minutes in 2024 alone, according to Nielsen figures cited by Netflix. Wilder’s books have sold more than 73 million copies in over 100 countries and have been translated into at least 27 languages.
The series premieres globally July 9 on Netflix.
