Editor
2 x 60’ Episodes
Episodes 3 and 6
Netflix / Sister Global
Executive Producers: Abi Morgan, Jane Featherstone, Lucy Dyke
Producer: Holly Pullinger
Director: Lucy Forbes
Writer: Abi Morgan
Assistant Editor: Joe Goode
2nd Assistant Editor: J-P Blunt
Vincent (Cumberbatch) is one of New York’s leading puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show Good Day Sunshine. But his life unravels when his nine-year-old son goes missing on the way to school. “Eric is a dark and crazy journey into the heart of 1980s New York — and the good, bad, and ugly world of Vincent,” Morgan told Netflix.
Struggling to cope with the loss of his son, Edgar, Vincent becomes increasingly distressed and volatile. Full of self-loathing and guilt over 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 behavior 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.