Overview
- Netflix, which announced the pickup Thursday, gave a straight-to-series order to the Paramount Television Studios project after a competitive sale.
- Meryl Streep will play Enid and executive produce as Jonathan Franzen adapts his novel and Cord Jefferson directs every episode as an executive producer.
- The project has been in development since 2024 and moved from CBS Studios to the revived Paramount Television Studios following the Skydance–Paramount Global merger.
- No release date or additional casting is set, and Netflix’s logline frames the story as a sharply comic look at a Midwestern family facing a push for one last Christmas together.
- An HBO pilot in 2012 did not go to series, and the straight-to-series order here skips a pilot to move the adaptation more quickly toward production.