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About Eden

Eden is an Australian television drama series from Stan. The eight-part series was released on 11 June 2021.

Website: https://www.stan.com.au/watch/eden

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Eden is an Australian television drama series from Stan. The eight-part series was released on 11 June 2021.

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Premise

Eden follows a devastating chain of events which lays bare the dark, hidden heart of paradise triggered after the disappearance of a young woman.

Cast

Main

Sophie Wilde as Scout

Bebe Bettencourt as Hedwig

Keiynan Lonsdale as Cam

Cody Fern as Andy Dolan

Cassandra Sorrell as Cora Lee

Claude Jabbour as Ben Drysdale

Alexandria Steffensen as Saranya

Christopher James Baker as Gracie

Samuel Johnson as Ezra Katz

Shakira Clanton as Laura O'Shea

Brad McMurray as Kai Murray

Dustin Clare as Huckleberry

Anastasia Usoltseva as Eilish

Rachael Blake as Katia Van Der Linden

Cassandra Sorrell as Cora Lee

Leeanna Walsman as Octavia Gracie

Priscilla Doueihy as Gina

Recurring

Thom Green as Bodie Palmer

Mimana Kiel as Daylah

Benedict Hardie as Laith Palmer

Genevieve Lemon as Fiona Palmer

Caroline Oayda as Elke

Megan O'Connell as Pilot

Hunter Page-Lochard as Fred

Christian Wilkins as Leander

Simon Lyndon as Michael

Brad Timms as Moutrys Bill

Calvin Wigg as Crackdacta

Guests

Phoebe Adams as Annie

Alyla Browne as Young Hedwig

Cheree Cassidy as Newsreader

Martin Dingle-Wall as David Cohen

Peter Russell-Clarke as Johnny Bobbin

Victoria Haralabidou as Drysdale's Mother

Elke Hinrichsen as Drug Dealer

Production

Eden was created by writer-director Vanessa Gazy in collaboration with Every Cloud Productions' Fiona Eagger and Deb Cox and Balloon Entertainment's Bryan Elsley. It is produced by Fiona McConaghy and directors include John Curran and Mirrah Foulkes and Peter Andrikidis.

The series had an all-female writing team, consisting of Jessica Brittain, Anya Beyersdorf, Penelope Chai, Clare Sladden, and Vanessa Gazy.

Filming

The series is filmed in Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.

Cinematography was by Geoffrey Hall.

Release

The first trailer for the series was released on 13 May 2021. On the same day it was also announced that all 8 episodes of the series would be released on Stan on 11 June 2021.

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Notable quotes

“Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . .What a Eutopia - What a Paradise would this region be!”
— John Adams, Diaries (22 February 1756)
“Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können.”
— No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.
“In paradise Eve was a virgin, and it was only after the coats of skins that she began her married life. Now paradise is your home too. Keep therefore your birthright and say: Return unto your rest, O my soul.”
— Jerome, Letter 22, p.19; as qtd. in "CHURCH FATHERS: Letter 22 (Jerome)", New Advent, translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight.
“This living together of husband and wife—that they occupy the same home, that they take care of the household, that together they produce and bring up children—is a kind of faint image and a remnant, as it were, of that blessed living together [in Eden].”
— Martin Luther, “A CRITICAL AND DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY ON GENESIS”, (1545); BASED ON DR. HENRY COLE'S TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN. REVISED, ENLARGED, PARTS RETRANSLATED AND EDITED IN COMPLETE FORM BY JOHN NICHOLAS LENKER, D.D.VOL. I.; LUTHERANS IN ALL LANDS CO., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., U.S.A.1904
“The word paradise comes from the Persian word pairidaeza, which means "walled garden." ...There never was a Garden of Eden, but there was, perhaps, a Garden of Ediacara... blob-like creatures that lived in the sea...”
— Stanley A. Rice, Life of Earth: Portrait of a Beautiful, Middle-aged Stressed-out World (2011)
“Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.”
— Ernest L'Epine, Croquemitaine, Book II Chapter IX. Hood's translation.

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