Review: Who Is Erin Carter?

Have you seen the latest gripping thriller on Netflix, Who is Erin Carter? If not, you should watch it.

I love a good TV show that keeps me hooked all the way through. But this time of year is the time when a lot of the TV shows I usually watch have a break because the season airing at the moment has finished.

And the other day, my mum and I wanted something to watch so we thought we'd try a new show. We went onto Netflix, scrolled through and came across a limited series called Who is Erin Carter?

Now let me tell you, I am so glad we decided to watch Who is Erin Carter? because it is such a good show. It's only seven episodes and a season two hasn't been confirmed yet because it is a limited series, but I'm hoping there will be a second season.

To introduce you to the show, the synopsis of it is:

Erin Carter, a British teacher in Spain, finds herself caught up in a supermarket robbery. When one of the robbers claims to recognise her, her life threatens to unravel.

Those two sentences were what grabbed my attention. I love TV shows and movies that keep you on your toes, have a mystery to be solved and have lots of action. From the title alone, Who is Erin Carter? you can tell there would be lots of questions needing to be answered throughout the show.

So when we watched episode one, I was hooked.

Who is Erin Carter? is an action, thriller TV show that explores the effect of secrecy, hidden pasts and betrayal. But it also focuses on family and love and just how far someone - Erin Carter - will go to protect those she cares about.

The series begins by showing you Erin's life in Barcelona and her family. Everything seems picture-perfect under the Spanish sun, but when a supermarket robbery occurs, Erin ends up being classed as a hero and famous in the town. From there, things start to unravel and it turns out things aren't quite as they seem.

You get an entwined story of two characters really because you have Erin Carter who's a mother, a school teacher and a wife; but there's also the other Erin who knows how to fight, how to defend herself and has secrets.

Throughout each episode, you're asking yourself the same question: Who is Erin Carter?

There is an episode that is set in the past and it details Erin's backstory and how she ended up in Barcelona. And from there, I thought, okay, I can guess what's going to happen.

I was wrong. My mum and I managed to guess one thing about a specific character, but everything else was a surprise. There are so many twists and turns throughout all the episodes. And they tend to end on cliff-hangers, which makes you want to binge-watch the series.

The plot of the show is one of the most addictive plots I've watched unravel on screen in a long time. As someone who has studied screenwriting, I find it fascinating to see how script translates to screen and Who is Erin Carter? will definitely be an example I will look at.

The acting is amazing. The protagonists of Erin, Emilio, Jordi, Harper, and Daniel are portrayed effortlessly and in such an authentic way. And the same goes for Lena as well, when we see her and Erin in the two different timelines, it shows the talent of the actors.

Another thing I loved throughout the show was the character arcs. Each individual character had their own journey in the show that they went on and by the end, they were different, they'd transformed and reached the goal/want that they needed to. Erin tells her family the truth, unable to hide it anymore; but it actually brings her and Jordi closer and Harper as well. Lena goes from bad to good much like Penelope.

And after all the action of the whole season and the climax in the season finale, it does kind of set it up for a season two - it's left open so there is the opportunity for more storylines.

At the moment, Who is Erin Carter? is a limited mini-series on Netflix, so if you fancy a watch, give it a go and let me know what you think in the comments below.

Until next time...