Netflix Orders 'The Corrections' Series with Meryl Streep

Netflix has greenlit a limited series adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed 2001 novel "The Corrections," with three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep set to star as the family matriarch Enid Lambert. The streaming service announced the straight-to-series order on Thursday, acquiring the project from Paramount Television Studios after it had been in development for years.

The series, described in an official statement as "a sharply comic portrait of a Midwestern family whose three unmoored adult siblings desperately resist their mother's wish for one last Christmas together, each undone by the delusional ambitions that were supposed to save them from becoming their parents," centers on the dysfunctional Lambert family. Enid seeks to reunite her children—Gary, Chip, and Denise—for a final holiday gathering amid patriarch Alfred's declining health from Parkinson's disease and dementia. The narrative explores themes of reconciliation, personal failures, and generational tensions as the siblings grapple with their own crises: Gary's hidden depression despite his banking success, Chip's unemployment after an inappropriate relationship, and Denise's affair with her boss and...