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‘East Of Eden’ Review: Florence Pugh Is Extraordinary In Zoe Kazan’s Breathtaking Saga About The Sins We Carry & The Ones We Can Transcend
Everyone in “East of Eden” carries something heavy, and the weight of those burdens feels almost biblical. Shame, resentment, violence, abandonment. They are the failures, mistakes, and wounds parents pass down to their children, and the equally terrible things those children sometimes carry into adulthood. Zoe Kazan’s magnificent, emotionally intelligent adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel understands that family history never simply disappears. The harder question—and the one this wrenching, beautifully made series keeps returning to—is what we choose to do with everything we inherit.
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