Eric (2024) Netflix Limited Series Review
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2024
- A grief-stricken father whose son goes missing, finds solace through his friendship with Eric, the monster that lives under his son’s bed. Eric is a Netflix limited series dramatic mystery starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Gabby Hoffman, and McKinley Belcher III. Should this dark limited series be on your watchlist? Thanks for checking out my Eric (2024) Netflix Limited Series Review!
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My couch rating system:
5 - A must-watch - do not pass this one up
4 - It's really good, you should see it
3 - It's OK - maybe good for a rental
2 - It's not that good and I wouldn't recommend it
1 - It's terrible and I definitely don't recommend it
0 - Cutting off a finger is better than watching this
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Benedict Cumberbatch man… Benedict Cumberbatch is something else. He truly blew me away.
The emotional trenches were plentiful. The middle was mentally exhausting. Poor “8” that was a graphic and tragic ending. Meanwhile Edgar is unscathed and eating french toast at a diner. Great acting..oddly enough points on realism.
Yea…. That part of Edgar being unharmed and admiring those homeless ppl was completely unrealistic!
I agree, Eric had a terrible few days underground, watched a woman drown, doesn't know where the graffiti guy he admires ended up, climbs up the ladder that terrified him before (did he swim against the current to get back there?) and casually walks into a cafe looking all clean and chipper with enough money to order some French toast. Make it make sense.
Chris really has a talent for concise and perceptive analysis and critique, while making it look easy. I would give this one four couches personally but I always look forward to Chris' thoughts and opinions.
He is the man. Countless shows and movies I have discovered or been sold by this mans POV.
Cumberbatch killed this role. Roy from the office did great as the police chief as well
One thing that could been better in my opinion is Eric's role through the show, instead of following Vincent telling him, "you're a bad father" it could focus on Edgar's fears, and insecurities more (since Eric is Edgar's creation after all) the only time we actually watch Edgar expressing himself is when he talks to his father about Edgar, but he didn't listen, making Vincent's guilt more impactful
To be honest I wanted to slap Eric every time he showed up. He was just an unneccessary distration, and why did he have to look like the Gruffalo? I could have tolerated him better if he had contributed to Vincent's search in anyway, or like you say given him clues about Edgar's state of mind, but his constant trudging along annoyed the hell out of me. Also, why do the police and everyone else ignore that Vincent is clearly psychotic and a danger to himself?
Well Eric is all in Vincent’s mind (like schizophrenia) so it’s always going to be things that are running around in his brain, especially the worst things he thinks about himself because he feels so guilty. It wouldn’t be Edgar’s feelings because it isn’t in Edgar’s head, it’s in Vincent’s. But yeah I kept thinking of Monsters Inc lmao
@@SLUSH_PUPPYY I get what you're saying, but I still think that Eric should be a projection of Edgar's so Vincent can reflect on how he treated his son. Feom a storytelling perspective it would be more interesting
He can barley notice the damage he is doing to his child and Is highly focused on himself and victimized himself alot I wouldn't expect him to know any of his sons insecurities although he cares for the boy it wouldn’t really make much sense we would like to see that happen but it wouldn’t be realistic.
I was up all night watching this, it's great
Thanks Chris. I almost didn't watch this because I've seen other reviews and i was going to see Eric anyway, but you've moved it up my list.
I'm a fan of Benadryl Crumblepatch so I'll give this a go. Thanks for another great review!
Hahahaha! That's a new variation of his name I've not heard, LOVE IT!
The first reviews about the series Inread was negative, but this is the second which gives me hope it's woth watching. Thanx!!!
For me, this led me to the documentary on RUclips “dark days” and the book Mole People by Jennifer Toth. Fascinating.
I was really drawn into the show during the first two episodes but then it became kind of all over the place and consistently depressing. This could have been a 2 hour long movie or the oppsosite, a longer series with a chance for a season 2, given the depth of the main characters and all the "side quests".
But in that case I wouldn't have watched it because Netflix keeps canceling my favorite shows so I only click on "Limited Series" these days.
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I think that people are missing the point of the ending. It is framed as a happy ending but is anything but.
While Edgar, the son’s version of Eric is a jovial, bright character he thought up for the show Good Day Sunshine, it is drastically different from Vincent, the father’s version. His is a representation of his subconscious. His version is all of the bad parts of himself. His Eric embodies his disillusion, contempt and anger brought on by his abuse of alcohol and drugs
The final shot of Vincent’s subconscious version of Eric watching over Vincent and Edgar connecting after Vincent has been trying to get clean alludes to the possibility of Vincent’s repressed bad habits coming back. Although he has made the effort to change and create a new start, a lot of addicts eventually relapse.
Yeah it wasn't the first time he's had issues. His mom kept bringing up how she thought he was relapsing, so it wasn't the first time and probably won't be the last; as seen by Eric still looming around.
Binged in one sitting. Loved it
i have ADHD so i rolled with the complexities and side tangent nature of the direction, since this is how i think and process loads of information myself, lol... i too felt like they could have done with a little more of a post-climax wind down, and like, what happened to Gator at the end?
I really liked the show, my favorite scene was when Vincent showed up the the towns celebration event where all the kids were at and you see the camera go from police force to politician to strange men in white vans all together involved in the murder of the 14 yr old boy that is mentioned in the show but telling the audience that these types of people are all on one accord when it comes to s*x tra//icing, kidnapping and prostitution not just because they abuse their power with regular things on a daily basis
If you're casting an A-lister for a male curmudgeon, look no further than Benedict Cumberbatch; available with a British or American accent with or without facial hair.
Michel Gondry’s Kidding on HBO had more depth to it both shows remind me of James Stewart’s Harvey (1950) .
Really enjoyed this one ,time flew by watching it. BC is awesome a proper actor with so much depth and emotion. Bizarre? No!. Think the happy ever after ending,was a bit of a cop out though. Looking forward to live with you n ruben today. LET'S ROCK.💚👌
I don't think the ending was really a "happily ever after" ending though. Vincent single-handedly destroyed the family dynamic by breaking up his marriage. Instead we see that Vincent and Cassie seem to be on good terms and co-parenting a son who is cautiously willing to reconnect with his father. I would say we are left in a more hopefully optimistic state than a true happy ending.
Half way through Derry girls right now and really enjoying it!
Derry Girls is one my happy watches! I can put on an episode at any point and enjoy the ride!
Nice
Nice +1
Sounds a bit too dark for my tastes Chris, which is why I stopped watching shows like Baptiste (after the rollercoaster ride of The Missing), Griselda & American Rust.
We're currently watching The Booth At The End, The Big Door Prize & several other regular shows. The Good Doctor finished 😥, Evil is back (yay!), we also finished Elsbeth S1 :).
I'm watching a few things on my own, such as Interview With The Vampire, Kaiju No 8, finished Blood of Zeus S2 (very good!), Garouden S1 (not bad), and far too much RUclips for good sense! ;-p
Thank you for your review, Chris. I can't wait to watch the series, especially seeing Benedict Cumberbatch play a twisted, majorly unlikeable character, for the most part.
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Sod this, Cumberbatch still made me like him at the end.
I ll check it out, but I can't right now. I just watched Jim Henson: Idea Man on Disney+, I dont want to change the happy feelings I have after that. 😂
I was going to watch Jim Henson’s documentary today 😮
Hahah, GOOD call! Give it a few days!🤣👌😉
Your comment led me to watch the Henson movie and loved it! I waited a few days and 👍👍👍😹😹😹
MAN, I gotta say, I’ve been quite pleasantly surprised & impressed with your analyses, thus far! I’m pretty critical of online (YT) film/tv criticism & aside from one other notable channel, I’ve found little in the way of content providing consistently good analysis/insight. These days it seems like most reviewers are either pretentious asshats throwing around esoteric terminology which may or may not relate to the content discussed….or dudes with no real depth of intellect or opinion of their own, copying others like themselves, which results in the most moronic & pedestrian commentary possible! 😬Gee, Crystal…tell us how you really feel, right?!🙄
Aaaaanyway, I’m a new sub & am enjoying your content quite a lot! This vid makes 4/4 of your reviews that I agree with 💯! Keep up the good work, man! 👊💥😎
I appreciate that, thank you! I'm sure we'll disagree at some point, but that's the beauty of film and discourse! I look forward to future discussions!
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Anyone see Christine McConnells’ show that was on netflix…Curious creations of Christine McConnell. Seems like a rip off the character Edgar from her show, even sounds like Edgar. And the kid in this show is called Edgar….
I started watching this and I lost interest in the 1st 15 min. I like dramatic thrillers too. I will try again this weekend 😂
Can’t watch series about missing children. Too sad
Cumberbatch played a messed up, annoying character that was hard to watch . McKinley Belcher was superb as the detective. Would like to see more of him . The series was too depressing. Wish I did not watch it .
It's ok.. didn't believe the relationship with son.. the kid was not a great actor.. chemistry was not there.. 7 out of 10
The more i think about this, the more i really dislike it. Good acting though!
This is the ultimate in diversity and inclusion. There are no humans there, no unique characters that make the story interesting. Actually, there is no story. Each character is a representative of a certain group who expresses the manifesto of that group in politically correct blurbs. Richard Dreyfuss is absolutely correct in harshly criticizing the whole stifling environment that doesn't allow any originality, anything new. Creativity is not, and could not be a politically correct thing. If everybody walks in goose step, that spells death to the art.
odd story, not fun, not interesting.....the usual cliches.
Total misrepresentation of norm life.
3 or more gay couples to 1... Just isn't normal. I stopped watching after 2nd gay couple walked in. 2 much. Just tired of it being shoved into our face all the damn time...
I would say I don't care had it been represented realistically. But it wasn't. It's just too much. Just wonder how many gay folks worked on this film. Is it supposed to be filmed for gay community? If so... Then expose those films to gay community, not Gen pop. It's over the top to me that every single show now has to have it in there. Some sort of gay scene in 1st episode before any other supposed romantic scene...
This must have been written by some producer's niece. This show was dumb as hell.
Totally agree. This show could have been half as long. Totally lost focus on the main story to cram in more messages about black struggle. Just make it two shows. Make it about one lost kid. They shoved in racism, homophobia, sexism. Why? Why not just make it about a bad father who needs to go through hell to bring his son back?
This show bunked. Bad acting.. eric and vincent fighting was comedy/lame😅😅
Why does the cop have to be gay? Every flipping drama. It’s tedious
Man….its not unreasonable that we havta tip the scales to compensate for a hundred years of repression in film/tv! I have to believe (hope) things will even-out after awhile! 🤷♀️
why should he be hetero? whats the problem?
@@analogmusings9888 every drama focuses on gay relationships. It’s lazy writing and casting
@@crytlmeen we have been having this shoved at us since a chorus line in 1975. La cage aux folles 1973. It’s a cliche
@@erea3355 the story literally focuses on the broken marriage of a hetero couple. if you wanna see some hetero action i recommend you the last century of television.