The forty-niners are elemental to our identity as a nation of brave, rugged individualists.
—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.
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