WHO IS ERIN CARTER?
Type: action, detective
Director: Jack Lothian. With Evin Ahmad, Sean Teale, Denise Gough, Indica Watson, Charlotte Vega, Susannah Fielding, Douglas Henshall, Pep Ambròs, Finnian Burke. On Netflix
Erin Carter is an English teacher who has built an ordinary and quiet life in Barcelona together with her daughter Harper. One day, he accidentally witnesses a robbery in a supermarket and manages to foil it and kill one of the criminals..
The visibility that the event causes reactivates a series of figures from Erin’s past, which thus become an opportunity to create a plot full of intrigue, twists and spy story mechanisms.
Evin Ahmad is Erin Carter in the Jack Lothian series (photo Sam Taylor / Netflix).
The female heroine, with her baggage of torments and mysteries that resurfaceis a device that has long found space in the seriality of the platforms (the series is permanently in the top ten of Netflix); the unprecedented mix of espionage, action and martial arts gives a certain interest to the productas well as Harper’s ambiguous personality (his silences, his drawings, his behavior bordering on violence) well interpreted by the young Indica Watson.
The Barcelona described in the series is not the glossy, postcard city, but a journey into the slumsin lesser-known neighborhoods and glimpses, and is perhaps the most intriguing device of a story that often slips into the obvious and expected, but which is precisely for this reason reassuring.
For those who love female spy stories set against the backdrop of troubled family relationships.
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