It's easy to write Being Erica off as chick flick television without much substance. I can make criticisms of the show as well, focusing on the fact that Erica is attractive, able-bodied, middle class, white, heterosexual and cisgender. She has tremendous privilege and is often able to find success because of that privilege. On my darker days, I could argue that the idea of a woman with so much privilege and opportunity struggling in her life isn't believable or sympathetic.
Sometimes while watching the show, I stare at the screen, roll my eyes and mutter, "Get your life together, Erica. But the emotional heart of Being Erica is her struggle. She isn't able to get her life together, despite numerous interventions and opportunities.
Her attempts to find herself are challenges that many women can relate to. She doesn't stand up for herself when pressed. She has learned to take up as little space as she can.
She is too kind and gives too much to her friends. When her male partners tell her not to do something or undercut her confidence, she listens to them initially and struggles to assert her wants back to them. Being Erica manages to show the everyday emotional struggles of being a woman and the work of unpacking years of being told that, as a woman, you are only valuable for what you do for others.
Of course, Being Erica misses opportunities to engage with other complexities in being female. It tries to speak about bisexuality with Erica's girl crush or examine race through Erica's female friends of colour, but it doesn't really get there.
It does manage to go into some complicated spaces, talking about sexual assault, male violence and femme emotional labour before these concepts were widely spoken about. Jana Sinyor. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Erica, a young adult woman, is having a bad life because of the bad decisions she's made. Erica provides Dr. Tom with a long list of those pivotal moments in her life that she feels have led to the bad state she is in today.
Erica is initially unaware of what Dr. Tom is intending on doing with this list. What he does do is transport her back in time to each of those moments so that she, with all the knowledge of her present day life, can make better decisions to fix her life. Regardless of these new decisions, Dr. Tom hopes that Erica will come to the realization that although the opinions of others about her life do matter, it's what she thinks of her decisions and her life that are more important.
Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance. Did you know Edit. Trivia The theme song is performed by Canadian independent singer-songwriter Lily Frost who wrote it with Trevor Yuile. User reviews 47 Review.
Top review. Wonderful heart warming show with quirky and upbeat story lines! This is the first time I'm addicted to a Canadian show on a Canadian channel! It is such a great show with very interesting characters and a heart warming romantic subplot. I really like how each story centers on the fact that Erica has to go back in time to change something in the past so she can deal with something in the future differently.
I really like how this show has quirky and insightful dialogue and I like how Erica is someone many people can relate too. Posted by: Doug Mathieson. Published By: Math Teacher. Download this waymark:. GPX File.
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