My Year with Meryl Streep: Holocaust (1978)
A look at the famous 1970s mini-series that earned Meryl Streep an Emmy award!
I recently spent a whole year watching a Meryl Streep film every week, and I thought I’d share with you some of the reviews I wrote for her many classic films!
Holocaust (1978)
Even though many consider Meryl the best feature film actress of her generation, many forget to mention how fantastic she has been on the small screen as well. A lot of actors start in television, work their way into movies, then never look back, but Meryl has never fully turned her back on TV projects, even after securing almost two dozen Oscar nominations.
By the time she won her Academy Awards for Kramer vs. Kramer and Sophie’s Choice, she was a full-fledged film star, highly respected, with no need to ever return to television. However, she appeared in a TV movie in 1997 called …First Do No Harm, then gave not one but several tour-de-force performances in the HBO mini-series Angels in America, in 2003. She even appeared on Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy, as a sex therapist named Camilla Bowner.
Meryl goes where the stories are, where the rich characters dwell, and such was the case for her first true breakthrough: an eight-hour miniseries called Holocaust…