, , dropped on the streaming platform on May 30, and as professionals, we’ve already finished all six episodes. The miniseries comes from Welsh playwright Abi Morgan and stars the ever-talented Benedict Cumberbatch. We’d recommend pretty much anything Cumberbatch stars in, but this time, we really mean it.
is bursting at the seams in the best way. The psychological thriller blends the worlds of puppetry and the crime-riddled 1980’s New York City, held up by two of our most talented working actors – Gaby Hoffman stars alongside Cumberbatch’s Vincent as his wife, Cassie. Vincent is a puppeteer and the creator of a popular kids television show in New York called , a functioning alcoholic, and the estranged son of billionaire real estate developers.
At the start of the series, Vincent’s son Edgar goes missing while walking himself to school, his parents being caught up in yet another heated argument. A media firestorm blazes across the city, the backdrop of a tangled police investigation, the dissolution of the Anderson’s marriage, and the exacerbation of Vincent’s substance abuse issues. All of this, plus puppets! Watch 'Eric' on Netflix Before going missing, Edgar lets his dad into his imagination, showing him a potential puppet of his own creation, a 7-foot-tall blue monster named Eric.
When Edgar goes missing, Vincent sets himself on a mission to get Eric on television, hoping that will somehow bring his son home. All the while, investigators are prodding ever.