New York City is full of remorseless individualists who nonetheless stick to some codes very rigidly.
—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
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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