<ul><li>The first trailer for Netflix's crime thriller series Eric, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, has been released.</li><li>The trailer reveals that Eric will be a genre-bending series with moments of levity, hope, and unexpected bizarre moments.</li><li>Eric is set in 1980s New York and follows a father's desperate search for his missing son, with the help of a blue monster puppet named Eric.</li><li>The series will explore real-world issues of rising crime rates, corruption, racism, and the AIDS epidemic in New York during that time.</li></ul>

Netflix's trailer for Benedict Cumberbatch's Eric reveals the puppet-based thriller is even more bizarre than I expected

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