Vincent Anderson In “ERIC”: Netflix released six episodes of a psychological thriller mini-series from the creator Abi Morgan with Benedict Cumberbatch as the main lead of the series. The series revolves around Vincent a puppeteer who doesn’t have a happy married life.
Vincent and Cassie were going through a bad husband-and-wife relationship. Everything got out of hand when their son Edgar went missing on a day on his way to school. Where is Edgar and what Vincent does after his missing is the plot of this series.
Vincent Anderson’s character is played by popular legendary actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Almost every Hollywood movie lover knows Benedict Cumberbatch and his acting skills. For years Benedict Cumberbatch has been in this field and has given many of his best works to the world. Benedict Cumberbatch is a natural actor, his unique ability is to adapt to any kind of role he gets and live as that character. His Doctor Strange character from the Marvel Universe has a huge fan following worldwide.
Casting Benedict Cumberbatch is the biggest decision taken by the creator. Netflix needs to give that much budget for casting Benedict Cumberbatch in this series. His name is enough to make this series popular in social media and among series lovers. Benedict Cumberbatch is known for his performances in The Imitation Game (2014), Doctor Strange (2016), Hamlet (2015), Avengers End Game (2019), Sherlock TV series and many more.
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Vincent works as a famous puppeteer. He was known for the “Good Day Sunshine” show. His wife’s name is Cassandra also known as Cassie. And has a 9-year-old son Edgar Anderson. Vincent’s father is a policeman and a government official. The relationship of Vincent with his father and mother is not good. They used to tell Vincent to go for counselling and rehab.
But Vincent tries to avoid them and he doesn’t ask any favour from his father and mother. Vincent doesn’t like to get favours from his family. He doesn’t visit or talk to them or them to him vice versa.
Vincent’s marriage life is also a disaster. Vincent and his wife Cassie are not in a good relationship now. Cassie is pregnant now with another guy named Sebastian. Cassie doesn’t like to live with Vincent. Vincent is a very aggressive man who behaves or talks like a psycho. People sometimes think Vincent is crazy by seeing his behaviours.
Vincent doesn’t care about others’ ideas on the puppet show, he likes his ideas only. He behaves very rudely to his co-workers. Vincent lost his job after he lost his character by being alcoholic and rude. Vincent doesn’t accept his fault and doesn’t care about critics.
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Vincent was the reason his son Edgar went missing. Vincent behaved rudely to Edgar and he got afraid of his father and went away. After that incident, Vincent went into a sober mood. He became an alcohol addict and didn’t have a proper living after that. Vincent tried to make Eric the puppet his son drawn to come into the show so that Vincent thought his son would see it and come back home.
In the end, Vincent wears the Eric costume and says sorry to Edgar on TV. After Edgar’s return, Vincent changed his lifestyle and became a clean man. He stopped drinking alcohol and became a proper man.
That’s all about Vincent Anderson from the ‘Eric’ series. If you have any doubts about this series, please leave a comment.
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