Short version of this review: a very engaging (sympatico) star, and scripts that "break all the rules," result in an almost-addictive guilty pleasure of a series. Longer version: look closely at the Jack Reacher franchise (one of the most successful male fiction series of all time, now a successful streaming product) and you will see storylines that treat linearity almost as a religion. Every move, every decision, that Reacher makes is calculated, and based on something that happened before. This is the time-honored method of telling a story. As for Erin Carter, we will never know precisely what drove creator Jack Lothian to pen this tale, but we can be certain that nothing about the script hijinks in Erin were accidental. Lothian cut his teeth on hit products like STRIKE BACK -- which ran for a decade -- so we can assume he knows his way around a script. Yet in ERIN, he threw the rulebook out the window. In this series, things literally happen for no reason at all. And they happen like that very often. If Lothian was running some sort of experiment, it must have been considered a success. ERIN hooks the audience both in spite of, and because of, the wacky story-telling. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
Review of Who Is Erin Carter?
