East of Eden review – Florence Pugh’s soapy Steinbeck adaptation is brilliant, compelling TV

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A smart, gorgeous, and richly provocative adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel follows an American family across generations.

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There's always been a sour, atavistic energy to capital punishment, made vivid to me w/ stories on local news as a kid about Alabama's electric chair, 'Yellow Mama.' Some just thrill at the thought of the state — to quote a Trump voter from 2019 — "hurting the people [it] needs to be hurting."

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The thing about the death penalty has always been that it relies on an infallibility — after all, there's no reversing the punishment once administered — that no state in human civilization has ever achieved. But now there's another, rhyming problem: the state can't even properly administer it.

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If you’re not opposed to capital punishment in principle, oppose it in practice.

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