Variety Review Praises Netflix's "East of Eden," a Series Built on California's Salinas Valley

Netflix has adapted John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden" as a series, and a Variety review gives it a favorable assessment. The review credits Florence Pugh and Hoon Lee as the center of the production. Steinbeck's book starts with the Salinas Valley, where the author was born, at the point when the region was changing from frontier land into one of the country's major farming areas. The review places that California setting at the start of its discussion of the adaptation.

With reporting from Variety.