Eric is not the programme I thought it would be. What I knew before watching was that it was a six-part thriller about a missing nine-year-old boy, Edgar, and his father Vincent, a puppeteer played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who is followed around by a massive blue and white furry monster called Eric.
“The real monsters aren’t under your bed”, screamed the trailer. Not my kind of show, I thought. Too surreal.
