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Florence Pugh and Hoon Lee in Netflix’s ‘East of Eden’ adaptation
Variety’s review praises their performances and the lush production, though it finds the adaptation’s two central portraits uneven.
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Variety says Zoe Kazan’s seven-episode Netflix adaptation takes on the whole of Steinbeck’s novel, shifting attention toward Cathy Ames and Lee. The review praises Florence Pugh’s performance as Cathy and Hoon Lee’s increasingly complex portrayal of Lee, while finding that the compressed story leaves some characters underdeveloped.
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