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2 May 2024, 16:02
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Incoming new Benedict Cumberbatch trailer. The BAFTA-award-winning star is back on screen playing an anxious father whose world crashes down after the disappearance of his son in the upcoming thriller, Eric.
The first teaser for the six-part Netflix emotional crime drama has landed and sees the actor star as a New Yorker whose son, Edgar, 9, vanishes on the way to school.
Created by The Hours' Abi Morgan and from the makers of Chernobyl, Cumberbatch stars alongside Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler and Clarke Peters.
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The series logline 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.
"As Vincent’s progressively destructive behaviour alienates his family, his work colleagues, and the detectives trying to help him, it’s Eric, a delusion of necessity, who becomes his only ally in the pursuit to bring his son home.”
The Sherlock actor previously explained: “Looking at parenthood, looking at marriage, looking at mental health, looking at the AIDS pandemic, but also the ongoing crises of homophobia, of racism in institutions.
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"There’s a lot going on, and yet it does speak to our world. It’s not cramming stuff in that we’re not, sadly, all too familiar with.”
Emmy Award-winner Abi Morgan told Netflix: “Eric is a dark and crazy journey into the heart of 1980s New York — and the good, bad, and ugly world of Vincent."
Eric premieres on Netflix on May 30.
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