Netflix Is Turning John Steinbeck’s Cain and Abel-Inspired ‘East of Eden’ Into a Limited Series

Netflix has released the first trailer East of Eden, its upcoming limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel. If you slept through your high school English class, the story follows the Trask family, whose complicated generational drama draws heavily from the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Steinbeck uses that framework to explore jealousy,…