Television: Cumberbatch’s performance makes you want to stick with this very odd show about a child’s disappearance
Eric review: Benedict Cumberbatch shines alongside big fluffy monster in extremely strange abduction drama’s new drama, Eric , sounds like the worst elevator pitch of all time. Cumberbatch plays a grouchy Sesame Street-style puppeteer in 1980s New York, whose grief over the abduction and potential murder of his nine-year-old son manifests as a furry talking monster.
One reason it comes together is because of Cumberbatch’s compelling performance as man-baby Vincent, a grump, an alcoholic and a terrible husband to Cassie and father to Edgar . None of these are winning traits, yet Cumberbatch invests in the character with crackling, screwball humanity. You should hate him – instead, he merely invites your pity.Benedict Cumberbatch in Eric. Photograph: Netflix
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