Picture: Meryl Streep (left) and Jonathan Franzen’s best-selling novel The Corrections (right)
Netflix has picked up the television adaptation of The Corrections from Paramount Television Studios. Three-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep will play the lead role and executive-produce, with filming eyed to begin in November 2026. Here’s everything we know so far about The Corrections on Netflix.
The Corrections is an upcoming Netflix Original limited series and adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 best-selling novel of the same name. It has been confirmed that the Academy Award-winning director Cord Jefferson will direct all the episodes. Netflix purchased the series from Paramount TV Studios.
CBS Studios is producing the series, with Meryl Streep confirmed as an executive producer alongside author Jonathan Franzen, director Cord Jefferson, Mark Roybal (Task), and Paul Lee (The Summer I Turned Pretty) for wiip. Nicole Clemens, the former Paramount TV Studios President, is also an executive producer.
What is the plot of The Corrections?
The detailed synopsis has been sourced from Production Weekly:
“After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert (Streep) is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man – or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to. Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.”
Picture: Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections – PICADOR
Who are the cast members of The Corrections?
At the time of writing, the only confirmed cast member is Meryl Streep, who plays the lead role of Enid. Streep is one of the most prolific actresses in Hollywood and is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses of all time.
Streep is a 21-time Academy Award-nominated actress, having won 3 Oscars. She won her first Oscar in 1979 for Best Supporting Actress in Kramer vs Kramer. Her second and third wins for Best Actress in a Leading Role were for Sophie’s Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011). Some of her other nominations came from films such as The Devil Wears Prada, Julia & Julia, The Post, The Bridges of Madison County, and Out of Africa. She has starred in one Netflix project, in Adam McKay’s 2021 comedy Don’t Look Up.
Picture (L to R): Meryl Streep in her Academy-Award winning films Kramer vs Kramer, Sophie’s Choice, and The Iron Lady.
What is the production status of The Corrections?
In issue 1502 of Production Weekly, it has been reported that filming is being eyed to begin in November 2026 and will run for several months before ending in April 2027.
Filming dates and schedules are subject to change.
When is The Corrections coming to Netflix?
There’s no official confirmation of a release date yet. Given the filming schedule, it’s possible we could see the series on Netflix before the end of 2026. However, a release sometime in 2027 is more realistic.
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