it takes away so much from the story. when adam tells cathy that sam looked at him and it helped him it just falls so fucking flat because they barely even showed anything of samuel. every conversation he has with adam falls flat because you don’t get to see sam around other ppl
Cathy’s characterization is so inconsistent, kazan can’t decide if she is a victim or the monster steinbeck wrote. Florence does her best but the material is baffling. Visually uninteresting and worst of all, boring. A total bore. Yawn.
not one mention of how bad charles antagonised adam throughout his childhood, they mellowed that out so bad? and then skipped the whole correspondence between during adam’s time in the army-which btw got skipped over anyway
enough time has passed. i don’t think florence pugh was good as cathy in netflix east of eden. it was a very boring performance. i know what i said before but i take it back. she’s not good.