Netflix’s Who is Erin Carter tees up a season 2 Evin Ahmad likes (mostly)

Netflix is a great place to watch a good thriller. What is Erin Carter all about? The show is twisty right from the start. The show’s name quite literally begs the question. Erin, played by Evin Ahmad, faces obstacle after barrier as she attempts to conceal…something about her past. It’s inevitable that by the end (or just the first episode), the whole thing will be a mess. Erin overcomes every obstacle, but often maims herself in the process — either from falling off something, fighting someone, or just being on the wrong end of a weapon.

[Ed. note: Evin Ahmad was able to conduct press for Who is Erin Carter? as she is not a member of SAG-AFTRA, which is currently on strike. The rest of this article, as the headline suggests, contains spoilers for the end of Who is Erin Carter? season 1.]

Ultimately it pays off: Erin fights her way through it, beats the bad guy, keeps her family together, and gets to have some well-deserved R&R where she and husband Jordi (Sean Teale) commit to taking care of their daughter Harper and telling no more lies. Only then at the bar she sees her old handler who’s finally tracked her down, and implies that she could — or even It is not necessary to be able to understand — come work for him again.

“He just pops up, doesn’t he?” Ahmad laughs. “I think that’s something that’s always going to haunt Erin — because in one way she… wants to. It’s difficult, I think, because if you have Erin’s life and her skills and you’ve seen what she’s seen — I can imagine being a teacher 365 days would be boring one day. And she would love to jump out of a cliff and, I don’t know, shoot someone.”

While Ahmad calls it “quite a tease” for a second season, she says there hasn’t been too much discussion of season 2; the show is billed on Netflix as a limited series, but a gal can dream.

“We did talk about countries we’d like it to be set in — we did talk about Japan, that would’ve been super cool; I would like to go to Japan!” Ahmad jokes, before adding that it would certainly go against some of the work Erin did all season to get her family life back on track. “If she goes that path she might lose Jordi and Harper — unless she becomes an undercover cop again. And they kind of understand her job, and they’re respectful. However, I am finding it difficult. [to see if] Jordi would accept it.”

Lena would be the only element that is missing in a second hypothetical season.Andor’s Denise Gough), who is Harper’s real mom and who sacrifices herself to save Erin in a shootout. Ahmad credits Gough’s “beautiful” performance for giving “flesh and bone” to Lena in a completely different way than the script had it. Ahmad says that they work hard to create some ambiguity in the relationship between their characters.

“I think the complexity of having both these characters, Erin and Lena, really loving Harper and really wanting her to have a good life brings a very interesting layer. But also we kind of discussed as well: Are they romantically interested in each other?” Ahmad says. “They could be. And so if Lena didn’t (spoiler alert) die, what would have been the outcome?

“In my imagination I always saw them making their own little family with Harper. […] I could definitely feel something romantically between them.”

Season 1 What is Erin Carter all about? Netflix has now added the new series.