An emotional episode of Little House on the Prairie : Season 2, Episode 12.
This story steps away from the familiar Ingalls family and focuses on Isaiah Edwards and his adopted son, John — a poetic, sensitive, and misunderstood teen struggling to find acceptance in a world obsessed with toughness and tradition.
Was John a coded gay character before TV even had the language for it ? Did Michael Landon slip a quiet message about identity and masculinity into pioneer America ?
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What do you think ?