Eric Episode 1 Recap: Netflix presents a psychological thriller mini-series called ‘Eric’.The show has a stellar main lead character, Benedict Cumberbatch. The plot revolves around a child named Edgar. The kid gets missing from his parents without much information. His parent on the verge of divorce, jointly start looking for their child along with the police department. Things get pretty serious when they find out the t-shirt of Edgar is covered in blood. The later story deals with an investigation related to Edgar’s disappearance.
Episode 1 opens with a press conference by Vincent. He looks at the camera and calls his son, Edgar to come back home if he sees the telecast. He also says he’s sorry for everything. The show then goes back to 48 hours earlier to find out what really happened to Edgar. In the past event, Edgar was sitting in a studio, drawing his favourite cartoons.
Eric Episode 1 Recap
His father Vincent is busy with a children’s show called Good Day Sunshine. Edgar tries his best to get his father’s attention because he seems lonely and bored. After completing the shooting work, Vincent and his team members are having an important meeting. Everyone started explaining their new ideas to improve the show, but Vincent didn’t want to reform the idea of the show.
The team leader tries his best to convince Vincent the modify the show to increase the ratings. Vincent walks away from the meeting in the middle. He takes Edgar to his home through the metro train. Edgar spends most of his time drawing his favourite comic character called Eric. Vincent didn’t give much attention to his drawing initially.
After getting off the train, Vincent and Edgar go through the streets, to buy a comic for Edgar. Later that night, Edgar looks at his toys and drawings and also finds some happiness from those things. At the dinner table, Vincent mocks Edgar for introducing his new comic character. Cassie seems a good mother, she cares for him a lot. After dinner, he goes to sleep, Cassie comes inside his room and consoles him for some time.
Vincent and Cassie had an aggressive argument, at that time, Cassie throws a bottle against Vincent. The next day morning, Cassie cooks the breakfast, and Vincent and Edgar are almost ready to go outside. Cassie insists Vincent drop Edgar at the school, but he denies it. Later, Edgar goes to school alone, walking through the streets. At the studio, Vincent meets a political leader with family and comes to watch the live episode of Good Day Sunshine.
During the show, Vincent tries to irritate the politician by talking about some dialogue that is not part of the script. His team members are surprised by Vincent’s unexpected attempt to change the dialogue. When the is about to end, Vincent suddenly stands and goes into his office. Later, the politician comes for a chit-chat with him, but he mocks the politician in front of his teammates.
Later that night, Detective Michael Ledroit comes to enquire about Edgar’s disappearance. Vincent comes back home and finds out his son didn’t come back home yet. He slowly answers all the questions from Michael Ledroit. Cassie on the other hand starts blaming Vincent for not dropping Edgar at school earlier. Later that night, Michael Ledroit goes to a club to enquire about Edgar’s disappearance.
The club’s representative didn’t identify the child. After that, Michael Ledroit goes back to his home and meets his boyfriend in bed. The next day, Vincent goes to the school to enquire about his son, but he can’t find anything. Michael Ledroit also enquires about the neighbour named George.
The police department finds out a Good Day Sunshine t-shirt covered with blood on it. Cassie confirms it as her son’s t-shirt. Vincent suddenly feels emotional and unable to respond. Later that day, Cassie and Vincent had arguments and fights. They both go mad at each other.
Cassie thinks that Edgar left them because of the fights. Vincent kept looking for clues inside Edgar’s room, he found weird drawings and toys of Edgar’s favourite comic character creation named Eric. That day, Michael Ledroit listens to a tape recording from the club, he listens to a child’s conversation in between, he thinks that it’s Edgar. Later that night, Cassie goes to a truck driver and kisses him. At the same time, an undercover agent from the club gets hit by a car. In the end, Edgar’s jacket is seen lying in the middle of the road.
Overall the first episode was a good start. Initially, we didn’t get a proper idea who kidnapped Edgar. It’s possible that Edgar went on his own due to the problems among his parents. Vincent’s character was portrayed very well and Ledroit will be a solid character in the next episodes.
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