Netflix’s first trailer Erika new series of crime thrillers, has finally been released – and honestly, it looks even more surreal than I expected.
Starring Marvel actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Doctor Strange in the comic book giant’s cinematic universe, I thought Erik would be another typical mystery thriller from the world’s best streaming service. It looks like it will be anything but that. But why not see for yourself by watching the official trailer below:
See what I mean? The teaser suggests it will be another typical story set in this genre, but as it progresses there are real moments of levity and hope, as well as some thematically dark and unexpectedly bizarre moments, hinting at it being more genre-like will be. bend more than people realize.
Okay, so what Erik actually about? Here’s an official synopsis of the plot, courtesy of Netflix: “Set in 1980s New York, Erik is a new emotional thriller from Abi Morgan about the desperate search for a father when his nine-year-old son disappears on his way to school one morning.
“Vincent, one of New York’s foremost puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show ‘Good Day Sunshine’, struggles with the loss of his son Edgar and becomes increasingly distressed and volatile. Full of self-loathing and guilt surrounding Edgar’s disappearance clings to his son’s drawings of a blue monster doll (named) Eric, convinced that if he can get Eric on TV, Edgar will come home, as Vincent’s increasingly destructive behavior alienates his family, his colleagues, and the detectives To help him it is Eric, an illusion of necessity, who becomes his only ally in the quest to bring his son home.
Cumberbatch is joined on the cast list for the six-part series by Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler and Clarke Peters. Morgan (Sexual traffic, Suffragette) serves as head writer, creator and executive producer, while Lucy Forbes (This is going to hurt, The end of the damn world) has directing duties.
ERIC is the story of a desperate father and a tenacious cop who battle their own demons on the vibrant, dangerous streets of 1980s New York, in a race to bring a missing boy home. pic.twitter.com/SwZoWeaVSCMay 2, 2024
Erik won’t just focus on a father’s increasingly desperate attempt to find his only child. In a statement accompanying the trailer, BAFTA and Emmy Emmy winner Morgan revealed that her new project will explore real-world issues that affected New York in the 1980s.
“When I pitched the idea of a New York puppeteer searching for his missing son, with a seven-foot blue monster in tow, it’s to Netflix’s eternal credit that they jumped on board,” Morgan said. “Erik is a deep dive into the Big Apple of the 1980s, grappling with rising crime rates, internal corruption, endemic racism, a forgotten underclass and the AIDS epidemic, exposing the divisions between parents searching for their child, a detective battling a system that’s broken, and a lost boy who may never come home, asking where the real monsters lie. With dolls…lots of dolls.”
When ErikWhen the first footage was released in late March, I claimed it would put Cumberbatch on the other side of a world. Sherlock-esque mystery thriller. You know, because he played the legendary detective in a new BBC adaptation in the early to mid-2010s. Based on the first images of the show. However, I have the impression that the limited series will subvert all our expectations of what a crime thriller can be. We’ll find out if Erik has enough left to join our best Netflix show guide when it’s released on May 30.