Peter Strauss

Peter Strauss is Rudy Jordache on Rich Man, Poor Man, the climbing brother in a class-war family plot. ABC’s 1976 miniseries proved America would clear the calendar for a multi-night novel. Strauss sells swagger as hunger — appointment chapters, glamorous misery, a face that makes “making it” look like a bruise. Nolte brawls; Rudy climbs. The living room had never binged and still showed up.

On TV Flash he is 1970s catalog voltage. We file Rudy with the hours that invented event novel television for a mass audience. Watch the climb. Strauss is why the miniseries photographs as a person, not a summary. Breakout swagger, family as economics, a chapter you would not skip.

Strauss’s contract on Rich Man, Poor Man is s01e01; the invoice is s02e01. Chapter 1 opens Irwin Shaw as appointment television. The Jordache brothers already splitting class war into climb and brawl: ABC's 1976 miniseries asking America to clear the calendar. Book II's Chapter 1 is the afterlife premiere. The miniseries that proved the form now extending the Jordache war: appointment chapters as a franchise, breakout swagger included. He is Rudy Jordache in a 1970s ABC machine, and those two hours are where the machine is loudest.

Do not wait for a recap to explain Strauss. s01e01 will do it. Peter is ensemble steel — Rudy Jordache is why Rich Man, Poor Man photographs as a staffed room instead of a one-face hour. Then let s02e01 show the same credit after Rich Man, Poor Man has learned its habits.

One more coordinate for Strauss: s02e01. Book II's Chapter 1 is the afterlife premiere. The miniseries that proved the form now extending the Jordache war: appointment chapters as a franchise, breakout swagger included. That is still Peter doing Rudy Jordache, not garnish on a clip show.