“Eric” practically drips with Prestige TV trappings: a cast of great actors, a Very Serious Topic, and no doubt a primo slot coming soon on your Netflix recommendations page. It’s also all over the ...

McKinley Belcher III, left, Benedict Cumberbatch and Gaby Hoffmann star in Netflix's "Eric," a series set in 1980s New York. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) The most idiosyncratic and striking ...

“Eric,” a limited series premiering Thursday on Netflix, stars Benedict Cumberbatch, wearing an American accent, as Vincent Anderson, a Jim Henson-brand puppeteer, if Henson had had severe mental ...

“It is rooted in a lot of real-world issues,” looking at parenthood, marriage, mental health, AIDS, homophobia and racism, the star said in London. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor “We had this ...

Abi Morgan's sappy yet savage limited series follows a bad dad who — alongside his imaginary puppet monster — concocts a drunken, dangerous scheme to find his missing son. No matter how you dress them ...

Born from the sketches of his son Edgar, Vincent becomes increasingly obsessed with incorporating Eric into his Sesame Street-style show Good Day Sunshine. Up until this plot-twist moment, Eric had ...

"Don't give up on him" Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for a very dark, emotional drama series titled Eric, the latest creation from award-winning British writer Abi Morgan (of Shame, ...

Warped takes on children's TV shows and the broken people who make them are a micro-genre that's been around for decades. Usually, it's played as dark comedy that draws on the irony of childhood ...

Nate Richard is a Resource Editor for Collider, a film and television critic, and a part-time amateur filmmaker. He graduated from Ball State University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in ...

The most idiosyncratic and striking moment on TV this summer? It could be Benedict Cumberbatch as a father running through the streets of New York in a giant, fuzzy blue monster puppet getup amid a ...