Happy upfront week, to all who celebrate. And it’s an especially happy one for Steinbeck fans. Yesterday, the trailer for Netflix’s East of Eden mini-series landed, and judging from the looks served, there is much to celebrate and discuss. Following the entangled fates of the Trask and Hamilton families, Steinbeck’s magnum opus is a family saga often described as a spin on the Cain and Abel story, set in Central California. The new limited series was adapted by Zoe Kazan, in a neat bit of meta packaging. (Kazan’s grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 film.) Though its most famous adaptation follows the novel fairly closely, Kazan’s vision aims to deviate from the script. The indomitable matriarch Cathy Ames (Florence Pugh) is typically considered the villain of this American epic. But per the Netflix description, “this fresh interpretation of Steinbeck’s masterpiece will…[focus] new attention on its indelible antihero, Cathy Ames.” All well and good; we love a revisionist history.…