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Positive:
14
Mixed:
17
Negative:
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Critic Reviews
May 31, 2024
Season 1 Review:
An unfocused, inconsistently written, and wonderfully acted show whose ambition is admirable and originality rare in an increasingly formulaic crime genre, even if creator Abi Morgan (The Hour) never manages to reconcile its tonal dissonance. What holds it all together, albeit like a plastic bag tearing under the heft of its contents, is the parallel Morgan draws between a world overpopulated with bad dads and a patriarchy—one that, in the city, encompasses the police, real estate, and politics—that is rotting from the inside.
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IndieWireMay 30, 2024
May 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Eric at least makes for a fairly quick, if unevenly paced, watch. But it’s hard not to wonder what a different version of this show might have been—one that picked a lane and stuck with it, or that was more confident in what it was ultimately trying to achieve by telling this story in the first place. Because as it stands, it’s difficult to view this one as anything other than a disappointment.
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May 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Though extremely difficult to watch, “Eric” is outstanding. .... But there is one glaring issue. As Vincent becomes unhinged, he begins to visualize a real-life Eric who taunts him and follows him around. Though the furry blue monster is a manifestation of the puppeteer’s inner torment, it’s a distraction.
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May 30, 2024
Season 1 Review:
That’s a lot of specificity. Too much specificity, one might argue, for a show that wants to tie a fable about paternal regret to an indictment of a broken city. “Eric” is better at the former than the latter, artfully exposing and forgiving human foibles and celebrating the good things strangers can do for (and see within) each other.
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May 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The acting in the Netflix miniseries “Eric” is knock-down-drag-out good. There’s anger, madness, fear, loss, and grief all over the script, and there’s a set of performers, most notably Benedict Cumberbatch, who are seriously up to the task. Emotion is discharged. It’s all in service of an unwieldy, overstuffed 1980s-set story line that’s too ambitious for its own good, alas — but still, there’s a lot to admire in these six fast-paced episodes.
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May 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There’s a lot to love in Eric, a show in which the whole cast and crew are dedicated to creating something unique. Sadly, all this effort is often hampered by how the series leading star, Cumberbatch, is stuck in a story loop that gets in the way of everything else.
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The Mercury NewsMay 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Award-winning series creator Abi Morgan (“The Split”) and director Lucy Forbes (“This Is Going to Hurt”) bring their knack for authentic, ambidextrous storytelling to the table. The period details couldn’t be better, and the final episode weaves the many elements together with effortless poignancy.
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May 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Both Mr. Cumberbatch and Mr. Belcher have moments of enormous power, though much of it is front-loaded: The program gets increasingly silly during some of the later sequences, though the introduction of madness into a story allows it to get away with much more than if everyone were solidly sane. .... It is Cassie who maintains the core of grief at the center of "Eric." As a parent, I found her heartbreaking.
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May 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The six-part series melts into a CSI-like procedural with aims to tackle race, sexuality, and mental health, but can only muster the most superficial treatment of these subjects. Eric’s characters are as hollow as the puppets of its show-within-the-show – but, crucially, lack a skilled puppeteer to successfully bring them to life.
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May 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“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 place as a six-episode series, a genuinely depressing slog through the corruption and general skeeviness of New York City in the 1980s.
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The TimesMay 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Several times during Eric I asked myself, “If it wasn’t for Benedict Cumberbatch, would you carry on watching this?” The honest answer is no. Without him there would be far less reason to. Abi Morgan’s drama is well written, yes, but I didn’t find the story particularly compelling, hairy blue monster or not.
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May 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
In the end, Morgan and her collaborators (including director Lucy Forbes) are probably trying to squeeze too many concepts and tones into six episodes. But the ideas behind Eric — both the Netflix show and the cranky puppet within it — are intriguing enough, and most of the execution effective enough, that it’s always interesting, even when it’s messy.
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May 28, 2024The PlaylistMay 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
In every episode of “Eric,” there’s something that works, usually in the choices made by the ensemble, and one certainly can’t say that about every show on Netflix. To that end, fans of this one’s multi-talented lead should probably check it out. Everyone else might just want to watch “Sesame Street” instead.
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May 28, 2024
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