Eric feels like three potentially great TV shows cut into pieces and stitched together into one messy, heavy, but overall worthwhile series. In fact, the six-episode Netflix miniseries feels like The Wire, True Detective, and Wilfred had a malnourished baby. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Vincent, an angry, alcoholic puppeteer in a failing marriage with Gaby Hoffmann’s Cassie, whose nine-year-old son Edgar goes missing within the same year that another child has disappeared in the same NYC area in the 1980s. He slips into drunken lunacy and hallucinates a giant, Harvey-like puppet monster named Eric, originally designed by his son. While the boy is missing, Vincent fights against his demons and for his job.