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“Eric,” premiering Thursday, May 30, on Netflix. Benedict Cumberbatch and Ivan Howe star in “Eric”

Cover Story Monster at large: Real fears come to life in ‘Eric’

By Dana Simpson Howe), goes missing while Some know him as Sheron his way to school one lock Holmes, others know day, the puppeteer’s entire him as Doctor Stephen life is thrown into disrepair. Strange, and based on the Distressed and blaming title of his next project, a himself for the tragic disapfair few might assume that pearance, Vincent finds hope Benedict Cumberbatch (“The in a drawing Edgar had once Imitation Game,” 2014) now created of a large blue monalso stars as “Eric” — but it ster named Eric, who supis far more complicated than posedly lives under Edgar’s that. bed. So lost in his grief and In “Eric,” Netflix’s new helplessness, it isn’t long belimited series, premiering fore Vincent comes up with Thursday, May 30, on the a plan: “If he can get Eric streamer, two-time Oscar on TV, then Edgar will come nominee Cumberbatch stars home” (per Netflix). as Vincent Anderson, a wellAnd so begins Vincent’s known puppeteer on the obsessive tether to Eric. fictional children’s TV show “As Vincent’s progres“Good Day Sunshine.” Also a sively destructive behavior devoted father, Vincent uses alienates his family, his work one of his son’s creations — colleagues and the detectives a monster named Eric — as trying to help him,” reads his inspiration in a tireless an article on Tudum, “it’s crusade for justice. Eric, a delusion of necessity, As described by Netflix who becomes his only ally in on its press website Tudum, the pursuit to bring his son “Eric” is a fantastical story home.” 26 Chestnut St., rooted in very200 real terror. HEAR WHAT Highlighting a terrifying e, Pa • Suite MATTERS MOST When Vincent’s nine-year-old time in New York City’s his814-837-7475 son, Edgar (new talent Ivan tory, “Eric” is set when the

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AIDS epidemic was reaching its peak, crime was still on the rise following a string of serial killers in the city during the 1970s and the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz helped spawn the “Stranger Danger” movement many still reference today. Although it has not explicitly been stated that the events in “Eric” are based on Patz’s real-life case, there certainly are similarities. Patz, a six-year-old New Yorker, disappeared on the way to his SoHo neighborhood bus stop in 1979, never to be seen or heard from again. Despite this hardly being the first child abduction in the city, Patz’s vanishing worked as a catalyst for change, prompting discussions around citywide safety and ushering in new laws aimed at protecting the city’s youth from dangerous offenders. As Patz was one of the first missing children to

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appear on a milk carton, his case saw national media attention and remained in the public eye until its resolution nearly four decades later when, in 2017, former convenience store clerk Pedro Hernandez was convicted of murdering the child. Patz and other young victims like him are remembered each May 25 (the date Patz went missing) since 1983, when thenPresident Ronald Reagan proclaimed the day National Missing Children’s Day. “Eric,” meanwhile, gives viewers an inside look at the trauma, grief and layers of hardship caused by such a tragic event. “It is rooted in a lot of real-world issues,” Cumberbatch told The Hollywood Reporter, “looking at parenthood, looking at marriage, looking at mental health, looking at the AIDS pandemic, but also the ongoing crises of homophobia [and] of racism in institutions.”

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