TVLine's Performer Of The Week: Hoon Lee
Lee is the heart of the Netflix series' Trask family - see why his portrayer is TVLine's Performer of the Week.
TVLine's Performer of the Week goes to Hoon Lee for their stirring work as Lee in Netflix's adaptation of East of Eden. Lee's performance is both disarming and commanding, demonstrating a range of emotions throughout the seven episodes. In two pivotal scenes, Lee displays a subtle resentment for having to put his own dreams on hold to raise Adam's twin boys, while also delivering a haunting monologue about his own mother's death with such gravitas that it becomes poetry.
Lee's presence in the lives of the Trask men, even after they move to Salinas, makes him an indelible part of the series and elevates it to one of the most moving of the year.
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