Become Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series aired on CBC from 5 January 2009 to 12 December 2011. Created by Jana Sinyor, this series was originally announced by CBC as The Session , but was titled Being Erica before its debut in 2009. It was produced by Temple Street Productions and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. The show stars Erin Karpluk as Erica Strange, a woman who begins to see a therapist to deal with regrets in her life, only to find the therapist (Michael Riley) has the ability to send her back in time to actually revive these events and even change them.
In Canada, the second season aired on September 22, 2009. Only 12 episodes were produced for the second season due to budget cuts on the CBC. On May 11, 2010, the CBC announced that Become Erica updated for the third season of 13 episodes. Soapnet announced that it took the full third season as well. Season 3 debuted on September 21, 2010, at 9 pm ET, on CBC Television. In the United States, Season 3 began airing on Soapnet from January 26, 2011.
The fourth and final show of the season aired from September to December 2011. Although the show was never officially canceled by CBC, Sinyor said TV Guide during the fourth and final season running that the series has reached a natural conclusion and he does not have plan to write or produce the fifth season.
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Premise
Erica Strange is a young, intelligent and educated woman, but an underachiever who for many years has been unlucky in her career and love life. After accidentally consuming a drink with a hazelnut flavor, which made him allergic, he woke up in the hospital and met Dr. Tom, who claims that he can help him fix things that did not go well in his life. Though initially reluctant, he soon learns that what he offers is the ability to return in time to revive and even change his deepest regret.
Every time he faces problems in the present, Dr. Tom sent him back to re-visit the related regrets. The situation is rarely as simple as it first appears: in almost every case, the events that he wants to avoid by acting differently still occur, and he must instead seek new information to uncover the real meaning of the event, which gives new insights into how to deal with the problem in the present. It quickly became clear the true purpose of the therapy was not to let Erica erase her regret, but to help her improve her future by learning from past mistakes and making different decisions in the present.
During the series, sessions also serve to reveal some limitations and complications, as well as metaphysical implications, of the therapeutic process - such as whether a patient can intervene to change the fate of someone other than their own, whether the therapist can intervene on behalf of the patient to change their past without the patient's knowledge, whether the patient is allowed to reveal the future to others during the session, and whether the therapy is really happening or just a dream so far. The next season introduced a group therapy session, in which several patients gathered to discuss and share ideas about a one-time travel session.
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Character
Because the show involves the passage of time, a very young version of the characters is often played by different actors.
Erica Strange (Erin Karpuk) - the protagonist in this series. At the start of the series, he is 32, single, Jewish, and educated. However, he was an underachiever who was recently fired from a careless customer service job because he was too qualified. She has a nut allergy and after accidentally drinking coffee with peanut syrup, she ends up in a hospital where she is approached by someone she initially believed to be connected to the hospital. She introduces herself as "Dr Tom" and says she is a therapist who can help her. After returning home, he was convinced that a bad choice made in his past had made his life fail and sought Dr. Tom to cancel his many mistakes. As the series progressed, he gained confidence and choice, dating, and finding love, and was promoted to a junior editor in a publisher, where he was eventually fired in the second second episode of the second season. He has a master's degree in English literature. During the third season she and Julianne started their own publishing company 50/50 Press and became good friends in the process. After writing short stories throughout his life, Erica aspires to write fiction as a writer. At the end of season 3, Erica passes Dr. Tom was at the end of group therapy and became a trainee doctor. The second episode of last season 3 ended with Erica walking down the street in Toronto looking for someone to give her business card so they could be her first patient. In the last series of season 4, Erica successfully completed her doctor's training and became an official doctor. His office was a quote studio attic-emblazoned with a honeycomb bookshelf and a brown leather chair behind a large red table. Though he had to say good-bye to Dr. Tom, now Dr. Erica remains connected with her through her daughter Sarah who became her first official patient. In the episode "Adultescence", 12-year-old Erica Strange is played by teenage actor Samantha Weinstein; Rachel Marcus plays young Erica in the episode "Fa La Erica"; Grace Arianna Kirby plays Erica's childhood in the final series "Dr. Erica".
Dr. Tom Wexlar (Michael Riley) - Erica therapist. He has a habit of quoting quotations, often annoying Erica. Instead of helping Erica directly with her problems when they met in the past, she was often vague and incomprehensible, giving hints related to her current life. In his more earthly life before his own therapy and eventually became a therapist, he married Marjorie (Shauna MacDonald) and had a daughter named Sarah (Tatiana Maslany). Sarah escaped from home in 1996, producing alcoholism and violence caused by Tom, who culminated in a suicide attempt; it is sometimes implied that Dr. Tom may partly use Erica as Sarah's successor. It is also revealed in "Sins of the Father" that he got engaged once before with Amanda Mathieson (Suzy Joachim) until he pushed him away; they meet once again in the present and revive their relationship. In "Doctor, Heal Yourself", Sarah returns after a long absence, seeking her parents help to kick heroin addiction. He then robbed their home and ended up in jail. Dr Tom comes to visit him and instructs him to take more responsibility for his own life rather than relying on him to free him. His office is very grand, and looks very much like a study or library. After careful consideration and with his life developing after being reunited with Amanda, Dr. Tom decides to resign as a therapist on condition that he should disconnect all relationships with his patients, including Erica. At first, he struggles with his decision when he sees Erica being heartbroken, but finally says goodbye to his beloved patient. With Erica as the witness of her departure, her office disappears into a vast and white space.
Erica's Friends
Julianne Giacomelli (Reagan Pasternak) - Chief editor in the non-fiction department of River Rock Publishing and Erica bosses and business partners finally at 50/50 Press, and Brent's current boyfriend. Despite his zealous attitude often makes people underestimate or underestimate his intelligence, he is an intelligent businessman who primarily excels in the marketing and networking aspects of his work; he was, for example, the only editor who ever found a way to keep Rock Thomas's Thomas Rock ego's ego under control. However, he also has a very cruel habit against employees, including Erica, which triggers his insecurity. During the first season, Julianne warmed herself to Erica, mainly because the quality of her work made Julianne look better to her boss. Julianne is involved in an affair with Friedken, until Erica catches her having an affair in the second season. Julianne then publicly insulted Friedken and he changed the table to him by giving his book to Brent for editing. Together with Erica, Julianne was fired from her job after insulting her superior. The two then started their own publishing company, 50/50 Press. Julianne often misinterpreted airquote, irritating Erica a lot. His pet's name for Erica is "Chicken"; Season 3 Christmas special reveals that this is the name of his father's pet for him. In the fourth season, Julianne became Erica's second training patient because of her insecurity. He and Brent got closer, which leads to one night in their office. After Brent reveals his love, he realizes that he also loves her and they officially start dating.
Ethan Wakefield (Tyron Leitso) - Ethan is a fourth-grade teacher and has been Erica's best friend since their college days. She is introverted and prefers stability and predictability, unlike Claire's and Erica's extroverted wives. In the second episode, she moves next to Erica after parting from Claire in Montreal after learning she was having an affair. Erica's passion that continues to grow to her after fifteen years "just friends" is the main theme in the first season. Ethan divorced Claire and started dating Erica; However, at the end of the second season, Erica breaks up with him because she feels he is holding her back. When he still loves him, he realizes that they are not quite fit to stay together. Ethan returned in the fourth season when he bumped into Erica at her lunch break. She reveals that she has just come out of a serious relationship until Erica encourages her to face the real reason for the breakup. She realizes that she wants her boyfriend back and reunited with him, along with Erica's help. Erica and Ethan became friends again to this day.
Judith Winters (Vinessa Antoine) - Erica's best friend. Erica and Judith were introduced to each other by Katie when Judith joined them to work together at Casa Loma. Judith married and gave birth to a son during the first season. His duties as a new mother temporarily confine himself and Erica's relationship, but after Erica expressed her thoughts about how Judith's attitude changed, they changed. In the third season, Judith and her husband Anthony undergo marriage counseling when she meets her boyfriend in high school and literary agent Will Will (Shaun Benson). Their old feeling of returning to its peak becomes a close affair. Judith then decides to cut off contact with Will to save her marriage.
Jennifer "Jenny" Zalen (Paula Brancati) - Jenny is an outgoing, flirtatious, immature person, and fond of partying and collecting promises, and a real estate agent today. He was one of Erica's closest friends Erica had known since elementary school. In the second season, he left Canada and moved to Los Angeles to follow his new boyfriend. During a session to stop Jenny bully another Fiona Watt student, Erica finds out that the reasoning behind her comes from their rivalry against a popular chemistry teacher, Mr. Callahan. Jenny had an affair with Callahan until she broke up and got involved with Fiona. Erica then reports the incident to the principal and Callahan was fired that day, completing the session. In the third season, Jenny returns from L.A. after six months of breakup, homelessness and unemployment. This shows that the move was a mistake and he ended up with debt from maximizing his credit card. Upon returning, Jenny briefly became Erica's assistant and Julianne in 50/50 until she accidentally let Brent get the script. After pulling Jenny's weight throughout most of her life, Erica decides to end her friendship for her own benefit. Jenny then appears to be crying in the hall outside Erica's apartment, having lost the only friend she ever had. A year later, Jenny appeared on Erica's 35th birthday, at the last invitation (which after having remained in the past and knowing that nothing is as perfect as it sometimes seems). Since then, he has gained his life along with his work in real estate. Erica and Jenny then renew their friendship.
Kai Booker (Sebastian Pigott) - Introduced in the second season, he is a barista and server in Goblins, a coffee shop frequented by Erica. She underwent the same therapy as Erica did with Dr. Tom, though with a different doctor named Fred. It is revealed to Erica that although she is 22 years old now, she is thoroughly undergoing therapy for the next ten years, and is in the midst of a ten-year session in her past (for now) to fix regret (her friend bandmate/Travis' friend committed suicide). At the end of the second season, he completes the therapy sessions and returns to the future. He then returns to fix another past regret in 2010 (refusing to play in the Goblins he managed to abort). In the third season Kai returns to Erica with regret to tell her that she has been looking for her in the future (now), but can not find any trace. He worries that he died in the great tragedy that occurred in Toronto 10 years into Erica's future. In "Doctor, Heal Yourself," he and Erica fucked each other before he left and probably returned to 2019. Kai returned once more in the fourth season to fix another regret, but it was clear he still had lingering feelings. for Erica, even though she was with Adam. After breaking up with Adam, Kai takes the opportunity to cheer Erica and she decides to be with him. At the wedding of Dave and Ivan where he is the best man, Kai proposes to Erica but he feels that their relationship is moving too fast. After a session with Dr. Tom, he broke up with Kai because they were separated by time, making it impossible to continue their romance. She realizes that her regret is not to finish her first album, but to say goodbye to Erica, her true love. He returns to the future with Dr. Fred to concentrate on living his own life in his own time.
Erica's Family
Gary Strange (John Boylan) - Erica's father. After becoming a hippie and a marijuana fan, he is now a rabbi. He is seen occasionally wearing T-shirts with Jewish-themed phrases like "Me With Moses" and "I'm in Shabbat-ical" or the Star Trek phrases like "Live Long and Prosper". In Erica's flashbacks, Gary and Barbara proved to be quarreling and barely talking to each other afterward. She married Barbara Strange, but they divorced a year after Leo's death, partly because she was having an affair. With Barbara she has three children: Leo, Erica, and Samantha. During season 3 she and Barbara start seeing each other again, because she always loves him even after their divorce. In the episode "This Be the Verse", the younger Gary is played by Brett Ryan.
Barbara Strange (Kathleen Laskey) - Erica's mother. His relationship with Erica has been tenuous before the series but has improved over the years. Erica believes her mother is the reason for her parents' divorce, when in fact, it is his father's affair - an undisclosed fact from Erica. In order for her to really understand who Barbara Strange really is, Dr. Tom sent Erica back to the hippie commune in 1974 where her parents left before they got married. Disguised as a hippie, Erica realizes the magnitude of her mother's sacrifice for her father's happiness. He then makes amends with Barbara, who explains that she is trying to make her marriage work for the sake of her children. Barbara is seen with her new boyfriend, Norm, in "The Unpindest Cut" until she breaks up with her in season three. Barbara revealed she had breast cancer, but has since received a clean bill of health and celebrated it with a new perspective on life. He has one night standing with Gary in "Bear Breasts", but has reservations about reconciliation. They are then seen reuniting once more in "Erica Interrupted". In "Baby Mama" it was revealed that she had a baby when she was seventeen and gave her up for adoption, which she always felt guilty, but after finally meeting her as an adult named Daniel, she told him it was the right thing to do and that she had a wonderful childhood. In the episode "This Be the Verse" and "Baby Mama", the younger Barbara is played by Lauren Collins.
Dr. Samantha Rachel "Sam" Strange (formerly McIntosh) (Joanna Douglas) - Erica's sister and a surgeon, longtime girlfriend and former wife of Josh though briefly, and Lenin's current domestic partner. At the start of the series, Sam appears in conservative and dull outfits whenever he is with Josh. However, as the series continues, she begins to dress more casually after divorcing her. In Season 1, Sam and Erica are close until Erica tries to block Sam from marrying Josh five minutes before the wedding. In response, Sam refuses to forgive or talk to Erica for several episodes until she returns to Erica for comfort after parting from Josh. In Season 2, Sam leaves Josh and he eventually filed for divorce with his response in return. He entered into a brief relationship with Kai Booker but found a new love during the third season with cleaner Lenin Crosby at his new hospital. In Season 4, Sam suddenly appears in front of Erica's door, announcing that she is pregnant. She then gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Leo Crosby in honor of her late brother.
Leo Strange (Devon Bostick) - the dead brother of Erica, who died 13 years before the series began. His death was Erica's biggest regret. Season 1 finale shows Erica rewriting history, and Leo does not die in the warehouse. On the contrary, shortly after he rescued him and returned to the completely changed time in which he succeeded and Leo was an architect, Leo suffered a fatal car accident, because nobody was allowed to play God or disturb other people's paths; only their own. During his group therapy session at "Two Wrongs", Erica returns to Leo's fraternal appointment for her regret spending the weekend with a stranger, not her sister, which causes her to leave the university. As he corrects his regrets with Adam as his traveling companion, Erica learns that Leo has been raped by his brothers and attacks the leader for serious crimes. Leo reappears in the second episode before the last season as Erica's hallucination when he wakes back to where he started before therapy. His brother Sam named his first son in his honor. Leo returns for the last time when Erica is transported by Dr. Naadiah to the doorway representing the limbo; every door leads to a different memory in his life, and Leo constantly revisits these things. Erica tried in vain to convince her that she needed to unlock the mysterious door at the end of the hall, which she had rejected - though she finally did, and entered a glittering white light.
Ruby (And Redican) - Erica's gay uncle on his mother's side. She has a successful bridal wedding business, White Dreams, where Erica works for half a day.
Daniel (Landy Cannon) - Erica's half-brother he never knew. Barbara was pregnant when she was in high school, and gave Daniel away after her birth. She always felt guilty about this, but after finally meeting Daniel, she told him it was the right thing to do and that she had a wonderful childhood. He did not meet the rest of the Weird family during the time period described in the series.
Leo Strange-Crosby - Sam and Lenin's eldest son, Erica's nephew, and Gary's and Barbara's grandchildren. She was born by birth at home, and named in honor of her belated uncle.
Other therapist
Therapists help their patients use an unusual therapeutic program that involves sending them back to time for events they regret to learn a life lesson from their efforts to improve it. The office of the therapist has no physical location; when the "session" will begin, the patient will usually open the door and suddenly enter the office. They also go in and out of their patients' lives, in various disguises, both in the present and the past, to offer useful insights from time to time.
Dr. Naadiah (Joanne Vannicola) - Dr. Tom's therapist, and for a short time replaced him as Erica. In "Becoming Dr. Tom", Dr. Naadiah sent Erica to 1998 to give Erica a glimpse of Dr. Pre's life. Tom. In "Doctor, Heal Yourself" before he becomes a therapist, Dr. Tom tried to commit suicide just to land in his office. Naadiah for the first time. It was he who helped him become the person Erica knew to this day. In episode 3 of the season "Gettin 'Wiggy Wit' It" we briefly saw one of his other patients. He was immediate, yet calm in his behavior, though he became even more anxious when expressed his worries about his behavior. Tom to their supervisor, Dr. Arthur. His office is large, white, with a simple and very modern decor that Erica describes as "cold". In "Sins of the Father", we see that, unlike Tom, Naiman put his personal life before his work as a therapist, with other work, a party, a wife and a daughter.
Dr. Fred (Dewshane Williams) - Kai therapist, featured prominently only in the second season. He brings Kai and Erica together, one day "accidentally" spills his coffee, and recommends Goblins to him. Frustrated by Kai's reluctance to complete the therapy sessions, he recruited Erica for help, on Dr. Ir. Tom. His office is a lush green field surrounded by woods with glass furniture. He reappears in the fourth season and reveals the possibility of Erica's fate in 2019 - he will die in a bomb attack that destroys Union Station, which he later learned that with that knowledge he is able to evade attacks and survive after being visited and receiving guidance from his aged future 43 years of life and a doctor. He hauls Kai back into the future after the latter says goodbye to his true love.
Dr. Arthur (Graham Greene) - A character who seems to be the supervisor of other therapists. He was seen interacting with Dr. Naadiah in several episodes, voicing attention to the unethical behavior of Dr. Tom as traveling into the future for information about Erica's fate. He then intervened in "Doctor, Heal yourself" when Dr Tom was hiding behind his work when he saw his long-term absent daughter. After Dr. Tom attacked Erica in particular, Dr. Arthur showed him that history repeats itself because people "fail to learn from [mistakes]". His office is a large, open, brick-style machine shop where he works in a car.
Group therapy patients
The second stage of Erica's therapy with Dr. Tom involves sessions in a group therapy style with four other Dr Tom patients. In group therapy, patients who undergo a session can choose one of their group mates to accompany them to the past for support and guidance. While group therapy meetings are regularly portrayed on the show during this therapy phase, real time travel sessions are only described when Erica or Adam (or both) are involved either as patients or guests.
Adam Fitzpatrick (Adam Fergus) - Irish-Canadian Adam Fitzpatrick was introduced in Season Three as a time-travel therapy patient. He and Erica quickly developed strong chemistry, sometimes antagonists. He had an unhappy childhood, in which he and his brother John suffered physical abuse from their father and emotional withdrawal from their mother. He spent several years working in organized crime as an enforcer for moneylenders, but left the job and now works as a laborer with a landscaping firm, with new aspirations learning to become a landscape architect. His traumatic family's concern has sparked Adam's fear of commitment and a tendency to stand up one night. In the episode called "The Tribe", Adam meets Beatrice (who is the wife and mother of his son in a timetable) and invites him on a date, under the impression of fulfilling his destiny to make a commitment. But at the end of the next episode, Adam parted ways with Beatrice and went to Erica's apartment to express her feelings to her. In an episode called "Erica, Interrupted", Adam and Erica finally started a committed relationship together. During the fourth season, they start fighting constantly and eventually break up in "If I Can Play Back Time". Erica uses 24 hours of travel time to change her day with Adam without her consent. Bored with his hopes, Adam walks out of his apartment and lets him cry. Adam reappears at Dave and Ivan's wedding with a date and awkwardly bumps into Erica. Nevertheless, she reunited with him after she asked for another opportunity for their relationship. With Jenny's help, Adam and Erica buy condos and start their new lives together as the end of the series.
Rebecca (Melanie Scrofano) - She is an unsuccessful actress and now she owns a clothing store in Kensington Market.
Darryl (Jeff Geddis) - Darryl is a quiet man who regrets not defending people and taking risks. He proved to be something strange. Only one of his regrets shown throughout the season; he returned with Adam and stood up for a bunch of bullies who stole his Walkman.
Camilla (Kim Roberts) - Camilla is a former alcoholic and a single mother who raised two children and started therapy after she almost ran on a bus he drove to a pole, virtually avoiding killing her passengers. In regret he continued with Erica, he faced a co-worker who stole so much money that their employer went bankrupt. Of the five patients of Dr. Tom, only Camilla and Erica who passed the final test and started doctor training. As implied by Dr. Tom, Camilla has graduated and officially became a doctor.
Other important characters
Brent Kennedy (Morgan Kelly) - former assistant to Julianne and current girlfriend, former editor at River Rock Publishing and current editor at 50/50 Press. She is always well-dressed and well-groomed and works as a model of underwear before joining River Rock, which causes many people to think initially (wrongly) that she is gay. She was friendly to Erica, having used her shoes before. While he sided with Julianne when there was a conflict with her and Erica, she helped Erica impress her boss. In Season 2, she becomes antagonistic to Julianne after she gives the most promising book to Erica to edit her instead. He then goes backwards to get him fired by revealing his secret affair with famous writer Thomas Friedken and taking his book from Julianne. When Erica showed loyalty to Julianne, Brent decided to lower both, trying to beat their performance and get promotion. At the end of the Second Season, Brent Kennedy showed his true colors when he overthrew Julianne Giacomelli's government at River Rock Publishing - and got him and Erica fired in the process. Season Three explores the darker and more severe side of Brent. As the new editorial director of non-fiction at River Rock Publishing, and refreshed from his betrayal of Erica and Julianne - Brent prepares to do all he can to make 50/50 Tap non-starter, and ensure his steady climb through world publishing. However, throughout the third season, he began collapsing under Friedken's powerful-arm tactics and refused to collaborate with Brent's editing in his new self-help book. Brent then desperately seeks the help of Julianne and Erica - allowing them to edit the all-know memoir, provided that they are ghost-editing Friedken's book. As shown towards the end of the season, Brent tries to hide the real reason for damaging Julianne's career, implying that she has fallen in love with him early on and is jealous of his personal involvement with Friedken. After his master Frank Galvin died of a heart attack, Galvin's son Scott took over and abducted the company, leaving Brent as the freak. After much deliberation, Brent stopped River Rock and joined Julianne and Erica as their editors. He finally confesses his love for Julianne, whom he retorts, and they start an official relationship.
Claire LeDuc (Laurence Leboeuf) - Ethan and Erica's college friends, then Ethan's ex-wife. Claire is the daughter of a francophone-rich industrialist from Montreal, but during her college days she conceals her identity, until Erica discloses it over the course of time, in order to appear more trustworthy in her left wing activism. In the third season episode, "Movin 'On Up", after Erica struggled to move forward without Ethan, members of her group therapy sent her back in time for hours before Ethan and Claire's marriage. Claire then reveals to Erica that she married Ethan for fear of being alone - a moment of truth that later proves that Erica has made the right choice to break up with her.
Dave (Billy Turnbull) - In the second season, Dave works as manager at Goblins, and is Kai's boss. In the third season, he and his partner Ivan (Michael Northey) bought and renovated the coffee shop, leased back to 50/50 Press. They then announced their engagement to get married in front of everyone in the Goblin. Bill Turnbull appeared in season 1 episode 4 as a bar man who presents poetry slam while Erica is in college; it is not known whether they are the same characters. In one episode, Julianne describes Dave and Ivan, who identify with the bear subculture in gay life, such as "looks like Fraggle Rock but sounds like Queer as Folk ". Dave and Ivan are officially married in season 4 (episode "Erica's Adventures in Wonderland"). The characters are named after the owners of Temple Street Productions, David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg.
Katie Atkins (Sarah Gadon) - Though tied to her hip since childhood, her friendship with Erica took a declining turn in high school after being fired from Casa Loma for joining the unauthorized Halloween party. They finally make amends today, in the episode "Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma". Katie is a successful newspaper columnist, married happily, living in Vancouver. In the first season he returned to Toronto to publish his first book, "The None," at River Rock Publishing where Erica worked. In the second season, Katie's character has been relegated to a recurring character; he only appeared for the release of his book on the episode "What Goes Up Must Come Down".
Josh MacIntosh (Adam MacDonald) - Sam's high school lover and husband eventually but shortest. Erica finds Josh as an annoying and abusive person, and she is also proven to be controlling and verbally and emotionally abusive to Sam on several occasions. Erica does not like Josh because Sam can do much better, and Josh does not really love his sister. In Season 1, Josh personally revealed to Erica "the heart wants what the heart wants" - she has fallen in love with Erica from the beginning, and has never been able to love Sam enough. Erica, completely switched off, swears at her to be silent about the truth to protect her sister. In Season 2, Josh makes a unilateral decision for her and Sam moves to London for his new job until his wife finally leaves him unannounced. He tried to win his back but to no avail. Sam decides to part from Josh and she files for divorce with the intention of taking every asset out of their marriage. This forced Sam to consult with a lawyer and his response in return. On very rare occasions, Josh has revealed his weak side towards Erica, both directly and indirectly, and has admitted that he originally dated Sam to be closer to Erica. In Season 4, he has returned to Toronto and became Erica's first training patient, where he taught him to become a better person and therefore he peacefully performs various ways with Sam, allowing him to continue his life in peace.
Seth Newman (Fabrizio Filippo) - First appeared in the last second episode of season 2, Seth was the author of Erica's first book and Julianne hopes to publish together, The Purple Door . He claimed to have grown and then escaped from a cult that he said was recorded at The Purple Door. It is later revealed that Seth lied about his experience in the cult, and has, in fact, an Orthodox Jew named Shimon Nyberg, a fact Erica invented accidentally on the other patient's remorse. Seth tried to write about his true experience in Orthodox Judaism. However, he felt it was not interesting enough and instead he wrote a fictional story and tried to spread it as a "biography". After knowing the truth, Erica and Julianne decided to drop him as their writer, despite the money they put into his launch that nearly broke them, and tore up the manuscripts that had once been considered their corporate gems.
Lenin Crosby (Brandon Jay McLaren) - Introduced in the third season, Lenin is a young and handsome janitor working at Samantha hospital. On the day of the interview, Sam meets Lenin when he helps clean his freshly dyed shoes from the wet paint on the door. They then open it and do romance. Although initially delayed by his profession, Sam gradually warmed himself to Lenin. Unlike her ex-husband Josh, the free-spirited Lenin, the adventurer equips Sam who is protected in many ways that benefits their relationship and each other. He also proved to be a kind, caring, supportive person standing up by Sam, especially during his divorce process. She and Sam expect their first child together and give birth to the baby boy they call Leo after her dead brother. His parents, Gus and Phoebe, appeared on the episode of "Baby Mama", played by Anthony Sherwood and Arlene Duncan.
Thomas Friedken (Jeff Seymour) - author of the best-selling self-help book River Rock The Secret of Now , he had an affair with Julianne, until Erica caught her having sex with a junior employee in the copy room. He is generally described as a blatant and self-promoting fraudster who owes his success more to his ability to deceive and intimidate people than any real talent as a self-help guru.
Frank Galvin (David Fox) - Founder, president and CEO of River Rock, he is usually mentioned more than he looks, but he sacks Julianne and Erica towards the end of Season Two. After he died of a heart attack in the Four Seasons, the company was taken over by his son, Scott (Jefferson Brown), a stereotypical athlete described by Brent as "Happy Gilmore" and refocused corporate publishing projects on the interests of men such as beer and golf, leading to Brent's departure from the company.
Antigone "Kim" Morris (Mayko Nguyen) - A woman with whom Erica has antagonistic relationships as a student, due to their constant competition to be seen as educated students in their literary class. Now a strong senior editor with Green Row Press, his dismissive attitude when Erica first applied for a job to make Erica revisit the secret societies, they were both invited to join the university; in the third season, he calls Erica with an unsolicited job offer at 50/50 The Press' future depends on balance.
Cassidy Holland (Anna Silk) - A lesbian graduate student who is Erica's close friend at the university. The end of their friendship, after Erica refused a sexual encounter with Cassidy, was one of Erica's regrets to change again; in the session, he accepts Cassidy's face but finds that the decision only serves to reaffirm his heterosexuality. Finally, Erica knew that the end of their friendship came not because she chose not to have sex with Cassidy, but because she felt too awkward to talk to Cassidy about it afterward; doing so in the session, he then returned to the new prize where he and Cassidy kept in touch after Cassidy moved to England for his post-doctoral work, and Cassidy then returned for a visit during Pride Week. He also occasionally appears as a minor player in several sessions of the other Erica university era.
Rachel (Jadyn Wong) - New editorial assistant at 50/50 Press in Season 4. Julianne initially disliked her, leading to a confrontation when her unsolicited suggestion of suggestions sparked Julianne's intellectual distrust, but was eventually won by Rachel's competence in the same way she used to with Erica; she gave Rachel the name of a loving animal "Ray Ray". A recent university graduate, Rachel is unique and has psychic abilities - rightly concluding that Brent and Julianne are dating after witnessing a mere view amongst them, sometimes completing Julianne's sentences, and feeling some chill death minutes before 50/50 received a phone call informing them of fatal heart attack Frank Galvin.
Sarah Wexlar (Tatiana Maslany) - Dr. The long-lost Tom, the heroin-addicted daughter and now Dr. Erica. Together with his father, Sarah came from a virtuous man, an elite family who pressured him to follow in their footsteps instead of his dreams. Throughout the series, it serves as a catalyst for Dr. Tom when he escaped from home in 1996 after their last bout in the park. Her parents wanted her to consider trading for her career, but she wanted to be a painter. Their relationship became tense when Sarah started using heroin and dropped her dream of becoming an artist. Since becoming a therapist, his father has been looking for him, hoping to find him alive. He returned in the third season after a long absence on the pretext of seeking his parents' help, only to rob them once more. Sarah ends up in jail as a result. At first without face in vision. Erica, Sarah touches the lowest point once again after overdosing on heroin and ends up in hospital. Erica meets Sarah for the first time as her therapist and hands over a business card, reflecting her first meeting with Dr. Tom, Sarah's father.
Jay Manuel (alone) - At 50/50 The press is in danger because of the loss of Purple Doors, Brent - in an effort to make amends after betraying Julianne at River Rock - walking behind Frank Galvin's back to carry Julianne and Erica as a guaranteed bestseller, a "memoir full of warning" by an old friend from a previous career in the modeling world. The friend was revealed to be fashion journalist Jay Manuel, and the movement managed to save 50/50 Press and at the beginning to improve Julianne and Brent's relationship.
Episode
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Temple Street Productions filmed the series in Toronto. The first episode was shot in November 2007, while the rest of Season One was shot from July to December 2008.
In the last season of the event, Become Erica faced some criticism because of some examples of product placement that seemed awkward or poorly executed. In one episode, Julianne decided (seemingly arbitrary) to stop drinking his trademarked drinks, and Rachel repeatedly offered Tetley Infusions tea ice as a substitute; during the summer hiatus before the fourth season aired, Tetley Infusions sponsored a contest whose prize was a trip to Toronto to visit the set of Being Erica.
In another episode, the cold opening essentially lies Erica and Julianne in an extended ad for Ford Focus 2012, with Erica and Julianne testing a car while a salesman in the back seat explains its features and selling points; the only narrative relationship of the scene to the rest of the episode comes in the form of Erica sometimes weighing whether or not to buy it (which she eventually did.) Journalist of National Post Jessica Leigh Johnston writes that this episode Effectively is the end "I did not really get to the end, I broke up with Erica, my BFF TV, because she tried too hard to sell me a car." In a recap of the weekly episode on his entertainment blog "The Hype", Toronto Life called it "the most striking example of advertising in the show we've ever seen (even more than Julianne who loves the love of Tetley Infusions), and argues that the scene lasted so long that it was almost as though the car would become Erica's patient for a week.
In addition, McCain Foods sponsors a contest of audiences whose winners will appear as people who do not talk extra for a slice of McCain pizza in Season 5 episode Being Erica , a few months after the fact that the show is concluding production at the end of Season < i> 4 has been announced. The contest was later revised to offer an alternative prize "if Erica is not renewed for fall 2012".
Adaptations
Television producers in the United States and the United Kingdom announced plans in 2010 to produce a new adaptation of Being Erica in their respective countries.
The English version, to be produced by Big Talk Productions and titled You Again , will be organized in Glasgow and will focus on NHS workers named Zoe. The lead author is announced as Nicole Taylor ( Ashes to Ashes and Diary Secret of the Call Girl ), while Become Erica creator Jana Sinyor and producer Aaron Martin will serve as a consultant.
On December 16, 2010, ABC also announced plans to produce an American remake of Become Erica. Maggie Friedman will be the writer for the pilot of the event.
Reception
This inaugural episode has an estimated audience of almost every day from nearly 600,000 viewers, then confirmed by BBM Nielsen Media Research to 615,000 viewers.
In the Netherlands, Became Erica premiered with 398,000 viewers with a market share of 5.9%. The rest of the season has a 5.5% market share by Stichting KijkOnderzoek. Become Erica withdrawn from the schedule on Net 5 after episode 10 to make room for 90210 and Gossip Girl . The remaining episodes begin airing October 10th. This series reaches the lowest point of all time when it returns on Net 5 but becomes stable after the second episode. Since January 2010 there has been no new episode in the Netherlands because the ratings dropped dramatically in the second half of the second season. DVD season 2 is distributed by the BBC instead of Net 5, which released its first season on DVD. His sales went well so the BBC decided to release a third season also in Holland, although the third season did not air.
In England, Being Erica is broadcast on E4. The first season premiered on September 28, 2009 and ended on December 14, 2009. The second season began airing on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 10 pm but suddenly shifted to the grave slot 12:10 am after just four weeks. Seasons 3 and 4 are broadcasted similarly, with season 4 episodes shown only once, in pairs after midnight.
Ratings
Settings
The event is mainly set in Toronto. It therefore features many landmarks and themes associated with the city. Some roads are named differently than they have in reality.
Toronto often appears in American production disguised as various cities in the US. To Become Erica, producers want Toronto to appear as herself, and to showcase the city's spotlight in a way that has never been seen before.
Soundtrack
EMI Canada released "Being Erica (Music from the Original Series)" on September 22, 2009 in Canada.
- Lily Frost - "What I Want (Theme)"
- Melanie Doane - "Every Little Thing"
- The Cast of Being Erica - "Single and Unemployed"
- Blind Melon - "No Rain"
- The Northern Pikes - Girl With A Problem
- The Cast of Being Erica - "The Answer Is"
- Jesus Jones - "Here Now"
- The Cast of Being Erica - "Collective Disapproval"
- Pictures In Vogue - "Lust For Love"
- The Cast of Being Erica - "Yes Or No"
- Roz Bell - "Yesterday Man (I'm Very Lonely)"
- Norah Jones - "Do not Know Why"
- Marc Jordan - "Rhythm Of My Heart"
- The Cast of Being Erica - "You Only Have to Decide"
- Stars - "Reunion"
- True, Fred - "I'm Too Sexy"
- Fatboy Slim - "Praise You"
- The Cast of Being Erica - "Hot Dog Vendors"
- MC Hammer - "U Can not Touch This"
- The Cast of Being Erica - "Snowflake"
- Justin Hines - "Another Way To Cry"
- The Cast of Being Erica - "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!"
- Lily Frost - "All I Ever Wanted (Become Erica Theme Song)"
DVD release
Entertainment One has released the first three seasons of Being Erica on DVD in Region 1 (Canada only). The fourth and final season was released on June 19, 2012.
In Region 2, Season 1 was released on DVD in the Netherlands on June 26, 2009. In the UK, DVD was released on June 28, 2010.
In Region 4, ABC DVD/Roadshow Entertainment has released the first 3 seasons on DVD in Australia. Season 4 was released on April 5, 2012.
References
External links
- Official website
- Become Erica on SOAPnet.com Erica Strange's
- channel on YouTube
- Become Erica on IMDb
- Become Erica on TV.com
- Interview: Become a Writer Erica Aaron Martin & amp; Jana Sinyor
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