Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Puppeteer Whose Son Disappears in Netflix’s ‘Eric’ Trailer
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy Benedict Cumberbatch sees the strings in the first trailer for Netflix’s “Eric,” a new limited series that sees the British actor take on the role of a children’s television puppeteer that becomes wracked by guilt after his son disappears, as well as obsessed with the nine-year-old’s imaginary creation.
The first trailer for the streaming series reveals Cumberbatch walking around 1980’s New York City, as well as the blue creature that becomes the defeated patriarch’s fixation.
The series logline from Netflix reads: “Vincent, one of New York’s leading puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show, ‘Good Day Sunshine,’ struggles to cope with the loss of his son, Edgar, becoming increasingly distressed and volatile.
Full of self-loathing and guilt around Edgar’s disappearance, he clings to his son’s drawings of a blue monster puppet, Eric, convinced that if he can get Eric on TV then Edgar will come home.
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