Who Is Erin Carter?

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 24, 2023
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Aug 23, 2023
    20
    Who Is Erin Carter? is not convincing (at least outside the scenes that Watson – a preternaturally gifted actor doing a great deal with woefully little – is allowed to dominate). Nor is it suspenseful.

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User Score
4.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 3 out of 6
  1. HealingToolbox
    Sep 10, 2023
    8
    Note to male viewers ~ Erin Carter's ideal audience is women. The theme is a woman demonstrating healthy, vigorous female agency in multipleNote to male viewers ~ Erin Carter's ideal audience is women. The theme is a woman demonstrating healthy, vigorous female agency in multiple situations. The relationships and character's interiority is paramount here--unlike 99% of Hollywood efforts at depicting healthy female agency.

    This is a surprisingly well-written, affecting psychological portrait of a woman on the run from her past and from her own essence. The director was the writer of the long-running BBC series Doc Martin, which I was. fan of also. Like Doc Martin, the main character and his/her development takes and holds centerstage, supported by a fine, committed supporting cast.

    Let's contrast this limited series with another recent Netflix release, Gal Godot, in Heart of Stone. I suspect Heart of Stone is the best female James Bond movie ever made. In contrast, Erin Carter is as good as almost any action-drama movie or TV has come to putting viewers inside the skin of a real character with real problems.

    The series has several hours to work with, enuf time to show the unraveling of lives, Erin's life, her daughter's life, her husband's life, and the lives of two villains. The result is a narrative canvas used to create rare, believable, un-tropy 3D characters. Believable 3D character development--what a concept!

    Given the extra hours, the depth of feeling Erin Carter is able to go to is remarkable and admirable, virtually outside of the usual predictable tropey Hollywood scripts (Mission Impossible, I'm looking at you). This depth and originality of character and plot development is mainly found only in good novel writing. Congrats to all involved in creating this.    … Full Review »
  2. moth3
    Sep 5, 2023
    0
    This show is really fun...it feels like a relative of Alias, but fans of John Wick, Jessica Jones, Hanna, Jack Ryan will enjoy this show. IThis show is really fun...it feels like a relative of Alias, but fans of John Wick, Jessica Jones, Hanna, Jack Ryan will enjoy this show. I don't understand the negative reviews at all. I hope we get more seasons!… Full Review »
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