Twenty-five years after The Corrections became a publishing phenomenon, a series adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s novel has found a home at Netflix.

Meryl Streep will star in a limited series based on the novel, which Franzen is adapting. Cord Jefferson (American Fiction, Watchmen) will direct. Netflix gave a striaght-to-series order to the project, which comes from Paramount Television Studios.

The Corrections has been in development since 2024, with Streep attached throughout the process. It was initially set up at CBS Studios, then moved under Paramount TV Studios following the Skydance-Paramount merger last year.

Netflix describes the series as “a sharply comic portrait of a Midwestern family  whose three unmoored adult siblings desperately resist their mother’s (Streep) wish for one last Christmas together — each undone by the delusional ambitions that were supposed to save them from becoming their parents.”

Franzen’s novel earned waves of critical acclaim after it was published in 2001. It won the National Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. The Corrections has been included in several lists of the best novels of the 21st century so far.

Franzen will executive produce the series with Jefferson, Streep, Mark Roybal and Paul Lee of Wiip and former PTVS head Nicole Clemens.

More to come.