Benedict Cumberbatch sees the strings in the primary trailer for Netflix’s “Eric,” a brand new limited series that sees the British actor tackle the role of a children’s television puppeteer that becomes wracked by guilt after his son disappears, in addition to obsessive about the nine-year-old’s imaginary creation.
The primary trailer for the streaming series reveals Cumberbatch walking around 1980’s Latest York City, in addition to the blue creature that becomes the defeated patriarch’s fixation. The series logline from Netflix reads: “Vincent, certainly one of Latest York’s leading puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show, ‘Good Day Sunshine,’ struggles to deal with the lack of his son, Edgar, becoming increasingly distressed and volatile. Stuffed with 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. As Vincent’s progressively destructive behaviour alienates his family, his work colleagues, and the detectives attempting to help him, it’s Eric, a delusion of necessity, who becomes his only ally within the pursuit to bring his son home.”
Alongside Cumberbatch, the series also stars Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler and Clarke Peters. “Eric” is produced by Sister and was created and written by Abi Morgan, the Welsh playwright whose screen credits include the British television series “Sex Traffic” and “The Hour,” in addition to movies like “Suffragette,” “The Iron Lady” and “Shame.”
“Eric” is executive produced by Morgan, Cumberbatch, Jane Featherstone, Lucy Dyke and Lucy Forbes. Forbes directed all six episodes of the limited series. Holly Pullinger produced.
“Eric” will debut on Netflix on May 30. Watch the trailer for the series below.
