The new Netflix thriller “Eric” has all the ingredients to make for a quirky, surprising series. So how is this show so awful?
’s six-part series, which premieres May 30, never generates a single ounce of surrealistic wonder or terror. Flatly executed, incessantly didactic, and distended to twice the length that its story demands, it’s a meandering and unfocused treatise on the need to “do better” which fails, at every excruciating turn, to heed its own advice.is a showcase for Cumberbatch’s skill at embodying a prick bastard, and he does so with reasonable aplomb as Vincent, the.
Cumberbatch grumbles, fumes, and curses up a storm at everyone and anyone who dares challenge or annoy him. Unfortunately, like everything in, he’s a clichéd creation whose stitching is visible. It’s impossible to feel anything for Eric and his woe-is-me moping and daddy-issue fury, and that similarly goes for the other characters populating this slog, who mainly exist to forward a particular political point of view that has very little to do with the search for Edgar.
Tired of being controlled by his mean old dad, Vincent proclaims, “Who’s the puppet now?” In the face of such corniness, it’s viewers who’ll feel like their chains are being pulled.
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