On paper, the six-part Netflix series “Eric” sounds “barmy”, said Anita Singh in The Telegraph. Benedict Cumberbatch plays egotistical puppeteer Vincent who works on the “Sesame Street”-style children’s TV show, “Good Morning Sunshine”. When his nine-year-old son Edgar (Ivan Morris Howe) goes missing on his way to school, he responds to the trauma by striking up a relationship with a “seven-foot-tall blue yeti”. But the show is “inventive, assured and far less weird than you expect”.
Set in “gritty, pre-gentrified” 1980s New York, a “guilt-ridden” Vincent convinces himself that the only way to get his son to come home is to bring to life the new puppet Edgar had been inventing for the show.
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