East of Eden. Netflix? new adaptation of the novel.
Not sure I can articulate my thoughts and feelings about this one. I definitely found it engaging enough to want to watch the full 7 episodes. But there were many moments of irritation with characters, dialogue and some of the acting. I wouldn?t be surprised if this gets a good deal of award recognition, though as I said, I had mixed thoughts, mostly about unlikable characters that made disappointing choices given what we knew about them. Im embarrassed to say that IF I read the Steinbeck novel, it was so long ago that I can?t really remember what I thought about it and I don?t know how closely this adaptation mirrored the book. It was clearly Steinbeck?s intent to show the good-bad mix within humans, but the way this lesson manifested didn?t always feel genuine to me.