idgi, wats the bait

Zoe Kazan is taking one of the greatest American novels and seemingly changing its message and perspective. Cathy Ames, a secondary character, is one of the most clear cut and evil villains in literature and from what I've seen by Pugh's promo run, the story uses her as the engine and tries to get the audience to emphasize and "fall in love with her"

just tell the story the author wanted to tell or let somebody else adapt it

Looks like it could be terrible
Imo

It spiritually feels like Morbius

Morbidly curious and fascinated by East of Eden. As an adaptation of one of the greatest books ever written it’s obviously going to be bad real bad. But it seems like they’re changing the DNA of it so much that it’ll be able to exist on its own as a completely separate thing, which intrigues me more than an even “pretty good” faithful adaptation.

Cast is great and I’ve liked the trailers.

That said, I didn’t like the first episode.

Nah, classics have been a rich resource for mini series. Lots of British ones. The American Lonesome Dove was already one and Zoe is remaking thay next. Kubrick wanted to do Vanity Fair but it was a mini series before he even got to it.

And the book is a bunch of things tbh. They're focusing on the soap opera aspect which I appreciate. It's the pulpiest part of the novel.

That said, I haven't started it yet and can't speak to the execution here

I am not a fan of Netflix originals by and large but I am tempted to check this out

let us know your thoughts

or start a thread

absolutely love the book but don't want to see them butcher it or change its DNA tbh

Don’t think a full thread is worth it.

I didn’t like the first episode, and I’m only halfway through and yeah. It’s definitely a departure from the book. Cathy is the driving force, even the narrator.

I don’t think the career best shouts for Florence are that crazy, she’s doing some great stuff.

For some reason I keep thinking Mike Faist is Adam and Christopher Abbott is Charles, and I’m not convinced that that shouldn’t be the case. I think Faist especially would make a better Adam than Charles, and the way that relationship is treated early on is the most frustrating part of the watch so far. (Really all of the early Trask stuff is not great.)

It’s largely what I expected. The closer it sticks to the novel, especially for an extended time, it lacks so much. Even fully understanding that you’re never going to be able to fully adapt the depth from page to screen, I’m not big on these abridged attempts (mostly.) When it takes its own swings and liberties, I think it’s kind of… very good.