Eric: Limited Series

"The lack of humour in a show about a guy hallucinating a puppet is genuinely inspired."

"The concept is so compellingly weird, and Cumberbatch and Hoffmann are so believably raw... (it) works even in the moments when it seems to have lost the thread."

"It’s inventive, assured and far less weird than you expect."

"Career-best performances from Benedict Cumberbatch and the immeasurably talented McKinley Belcher III."

"The script often has all the subtlety of a hulking blue monster on the subway."

"Benedict Cumberbatch can’t save this dire psychological thriller."

"Benedict Cumberbatch excels as a weirdo in (this) dark, misanthropic missing-child drama."

"It’s a challenge to find empathy for the show’s unpleasant antihero."

"In not credibly depicting the American past, Eric has little worthwhile to say about the present, either."

"Sappy yet savage."

"Feels like two completely different shows fighting under a blanket."

"Watching Cumberbatch enter a room and change the temperature, his combative energy simmering, gives this show a cruel charge."

"An ambitious swing, which is in itself a great thing -- and if it misses, that makes it no less admirable an attempt."

"Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance... (is) so good it might actually paper over most of the show’s flaws."

"Disturbing but profound."

"Eric has a meaningful destination, and considerable momentum."

"To watch this show is to be thrown, like a pinball, from unlikely scenario to unlikely, confusing scenario."

"An ambitious mess is worth a dozen competent bores."

"As compelling as it is odd."