The Tube.

[Eoin McLove]

Spoilers ...East of Eden!!!!


I won't be reading the book, I'll leave it there and funny, I would have done so before watching it because I've since found a copy on the shelves. I think it suffered from losing the brother so early, I was developing empathy for him I must say and bringing him back for Cathy's neurosis didn't work for me. The 'Chinese' man ,to me , looked Japanese and was far too fawning and bland and Americanised especially lingually. Also where was the ageing process? I mean, shoddy workmanship Ted, the lads grew up and everyone looked the same. Argh, I love pulling Netflix stuff apart yet I'll still keep an eye on it. Enjoyed Brendan Gleeson (as always) and the lovely Clare Foy in 'H Is For Hawk' last night.
Also watching 'Flack' which got me hitting a rare 'two thumbs up' because it's excellent and sharp as nails.  "Look at at Tom Daly and he falls in a pool for a living"

Fair points, all. But that said, the story itself was so engrossing that I could overlook those missteps. I'll grab the book at some point and report back. Maybe it'll be worth liberating your own copy from its layers of dust!

[Thorn]

Hard to go into it now after that but let's see how you get on bud, report back!

[Eoin McLove]

Ten four.

[decy]

I get what you mean about the Chinese dude, and I can't help but wonder if he has been made more wholesome for the modern audience who get to see an "alternative" and feel-good (relatively speaking) modern family unit, or is it some backwards, old times scenario where he is essentially a slave. I'll have to read the book after I've finished watching it and see how closely they have kept to the original.

I'd be interested to see what you think after reading the book. Lee is great in the book, I haven't watched the series yet but I could see him fitting in without changing much.

Funnily enough, I only read the book during the summer, thought it'd be brilliant if adapted right and looked it up to see the show was coming out a few weeks from when I finished the book.