Florence Pugh and Hoon Lee Form the Beating Heart of Netflix’s Rich ‘East of Eden’ Adaptation: TV Review
“East of Eden,” the John Steinbeck novel, opens with a place: the author’s native Salinas Valley, the fertile terrain transitioning from the nation’s frontier to its bread basket at the turn of the 20th century. “East of Eden,” the Netflix limited series created by actor and screenwriter Zoe Kazan, opens with a person: Cathy Ames […]
The Netflix limited series "East of Eden" is an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel of the same name. The story takes place in Salinas Valley at the turn of the 20th century and follows the Trask family as they struggle with generational trauma. The series stars Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames, a manipulative and murderous character whom Pugh aims to make relatable and even likable.
According to Variety, the series opens with the character of Cathy Ames, while The Hollywood Reporter notes that the seven-episode miniseries is truer to the source material than the 1955 feature film. The series also stars Mike Faist and Christopher Abbott.
Florence Pugh, in an event in New York, expressed her desire to make Cathy Ames a human character, saying she wanted audiences to sympathize with her and "maybe fall in love with her a little bit." Pugh added that Ames is a human who has had awful things happen to her, which leads her to do awful things too. The script was written by Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 film adaptation.
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