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About BEING ERICA & Episode Guides

About BEING ERICA & Episode Guides


Being Erica Aired From January 05, 2009 - December 12, 2011 On CBC.



ABOUT THE SHOW:
"Being Erica" is a one-hour series that explores the life of Erica Strange, a woman who has been given an amazing gift: the opportunity to relive a regret from her past enabling her to make a positive change in the present. Erica's present is this: she is 32 years old, perpetually single and stuck in a series of dead-end jobs. Meanwhile, her friends are getting married, buying their first homes and climbing the corporate ladder, essentially leaving Erica in the dust.

It all comes to a head when Erica suffers a series of mishaps that land her in the hospital. There she encounters the mysterious and eccentric Dr. Tom -- a therapist who seems to know a little too much about her life. Even more bizarre, he offers to help fix her current woes -- IF she accepts a challenge.

Desperate for change, Erica provides Dr. Tom with a list of her life's greatest regrets, and unexpectedly finds herself sent back in time to her teenage years. Keeping full possession of her 32-year-old mind, Erica realizes she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime - to make different choices in her past that will ultimately reshape her present.

As Erica weaves in and out of the present and past, guided of course by the mysterious Dr. Tom, she gradually realizes that she needs to stop blaming her prior mistakes for her current predicaments and ultimately learn to take control of her destiny.

CAST:
ACTOR
CHARACTER
Erin KarplukErica
Michael RileyDr. Tom
Tyron LeitsoEthan
Vinessa AntoineJudith Winters
Devon BostickLeo


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Season 1 Episode Guide



Episode 1. Dr. Tom
Seeking a better life, Erica Strange visits a mysterious therapist, Dr. Tom, who allows her to go back in time and get another shot at her biggest regret from high school.

Episode 2. What I am is What I am
When Erica looks for a new job as an editor's assistant, she finds the editor to be one of her university mates, who joined the "Literati" society back in the days - the most respected club on the campus, that Erica had passed on, which she now regrets having done. Dr. Tom sends her back to her student time to fix that.

Episode 3. Plenty of Fish
Erica is sent back to her first sexual experience to get to the roots of her relationship troubles.

Episode 4. The Secret of Now
Once again, Erica is sent back to her university days, but this time to overcome her fear of confrontation.

Episode 5. Adultescence
Erica is sent back to her Bat Mitzvah to overcome her childish reputation.

Episode 6. Til Death
On the day of her sister's wedding, doubts are rising in Erica's mind if the couple is meant for each other, so Dr. Tom sends Erica back to find out and to fix her sister's relationship.

Episode 7. Such A Perfect Day
Deciding that Erica might need a rest, Dr. Tom sends her back to relive a perfect day.

Episode 8. This Be The Verse
When things escalate between Erica and her mother at the Yom Kippur celebration, Erica is sent back to fix their relationship.

Episode 9. Everything She Wants
When problems arise between Erica and Ryan, after Erica goes to a party with Ethan, while Ryan is supposedly away, Erica is sent back to relive an unusual love affair of her university days, in order to understand her feelings about Ryan in the present.

Episode 10. Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma
After Katie gets a book deal with River Rock Publishing with a story inspired by Erica's life, Erica is sent back to understand the source of her and Katie's "friendship".

Episode 11. She's Lost Control
Now that she is supervising the launch of Katie's new book, Erica has turned into a control-freak. Fortunately, she realizes her need to control everything is contributing to the deteriorating relationship with Ethan. She asks Dr. Tom to send her back to prevent the kiss they shared.

Episode 12. Erica The Vampire Slayer
In order to improve her management skills, Erica is sent back to an old relationship that did not work out the way she wanted. The trip includes participation in a vampire LARP (live-action role play) to learn a lesson about stepping out of the box.

Episode 13. Leo
After all the good things that happened to Erica's life lately, there is still that one regret she does not get over: her brother Leo's death. Dr. Tom warns her that it is not permitted to bring back the dead, so Erica asks him to send her back to just say goodbye. But then, temptation takes over...

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Season 2 Episode Guide



Episode 1. Being Dr. Tom
Erica meets her new therapist Dr. Naadiah, from whom she finds out that Dr. Tom quit his job. Erica decides to quit as well, but Dr. Naadiah sends her back to 1998 to help a younger Dr. Tom.

Episode 2. Battle Royale
When Erica and Ethan start arguing a lot in their relationship, Erica notices, that she doesn't even know why. When meeting Doctor Tom for her therapy, he sends her back to an early relationship in summer camp, that suddenly, without her knowing why, ended and resulted in her getting thrown out of camp.

Episode 3. Mama Mia
When Judith is not happy with Erica's babysitting, Erica is sent back to Frosh week to improve her parenting skills.

Episode 4. Cultural Revolution
When Julianne offers Erica to become the author of the new sex book herself, Dr. Tom sends her back to a summer in Taipei - a trip that she had never taken because of her fear of taking chances.

Episode 5. Yes We Can
Dr. Tom gives Erica the chance to relive her day without being bound by rules or restrictions. Best of all, it won't change anything; no one but her will remember what she says or does. Kaj joins Erica on her do-over day, but they soon realize that there is a reason that actions have consequences.

Episode 6. Shhh... Don't Tell
When Erica stumbles upon a secret at work and is unsure if she should tell anyone, Dr. Tom sends her back to high school where she learned about a friend's secret in order to develop an understanding of the kind of secrets that should be kept and which ones should be shared.

Episode 7. The Unkindest Cut
Erica is asked to hold the baby at a family Bris, while her father Gary circumsizes it, but when the moment arrives, Erica faints. When she wakes up, she finds herself in Dr. Fred's office, who asks her for help with Kaj.

Episode 8. Under My Thumb
Erica is swamped with the problems in her environment: Samantha crashes at her place alone after having problems with her husband; Julianne wants her help with Friedken who threatens to pull his book; Dr. Fred wants her help with Kaj. Erica is relieved when Dr. Tom brings her into his office, but this time he wants her to solve all the problems on her own.

Episode 9. A River Runs Through It...It Being Egypt
After his affair with Samantha, Erica has problems facing Kaj, while Sam still dates him. Dr. Tom sends her back to a situation that lead to a big fight between her father Gary and her brother Leo, so she can learn the lesson that the truth is sometimes hidden underneath.

Episode 10. Papa Can You Hear Me?
After another disagreement with Erica over Kaj, Dr. Tom takes on a session himself, which sends him back to the day he saw his daughter Sarah for the last time.

Episode 11. What Goes Up Must Come Down
After earning bad reviews for Katie Atkins' newest book, Erica has problems moving on, so Dr. Tom sends her back to a different life after having made a different choice about her job.

Episode 12. The Importance of Being Erica
Erica has to make some big decisions that she needs help with.

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Season 3 Episode Guide



Episode 1: The Rabbit Hole(1)
At the end of Season Two, Erica walks through a door, her door, ready to face whatever is on the other side. Now everything in Erica’s life - her job, her love life, even her therapy with Dr. Tom - starts anew, and gets turned upside down in the process.

Episode 2: Moving On Up(2)
Weeks after her break-up with Ethan, Erica is determined to pick herself up. Dr. Tom knows someone from Erica’s past who knows exactly how she feels… Claire! But she and Erica have never seen eye-to-eye.

Episode 3: Two Wrongs
When the future of Erica and Julianne’s new company is threatened, Erica is faced with a choice: “Kill, or be killed”. Erica returns to the site of Leo’s fraternity pledge, where she learns that taking the low road often leads to a dark place.

Episode 4: Wash, Rinse, Repeat
When Kai returns to give Erica a glimpse of her own mortality, it throws Erica for a loop. If Erica is to escape her own personal "Groundhog Day", she must learn to embrace the present.

Episode 5: Being Adam
Adam gets the chance to alter the regret that led him to a life of violence and crime. It's a path that Adam is sure he cannot change - that is, until he winds up in a surprising new present.

Episode 6: Bear Breasts
Cassidy has returned for Pride weekend in Toronto. With everyone in the city letting loose, and things with Adam heating up, Erica is instructed by Dr. Tom to embrace her 'id' and let her impulses guide her.

Episode 7: Jenny From The Block
Jenny returns, and needs help getting her life on the right track. Erica is eager to help her estranged friend, but a trip back to a day at Black Creek Pioneer Village shows Erica that the helping hand Jenny needs is her own, and not Erica's.

Episode 8: Physician, Heal Thyself
The surprising return of someone from Dr. Tom's past forces him to face old demons. Meanwhile Kai returns to 2010 on a regret, and Erica must make a decision that could affect both their futures.

Episode 9: Gettin' Wiggy Wit' It
Erica's latest therapy session has uncovered a shocking secret that could mean the end of 50/50 Press. Erica is caught between a rock and a hard place. Dr. Tom has a time-altering solution for her... but will Dr. Arthur allow it?

Episode 10: The Tribe Has Spoken
Erica is offered an incredible career opportunity, which presents her with a difficult choice. To help her make this seemingly impossible decision, Dr. Tom sends Erica and Adam to a deserted island, to learn new ways of 'survival'.

Episode 11: Adam's Family
Erica and Adam must confront their true feelings once and for all. For Adam, it leads to a journey into his family's dark past, where he discovers a startling memory that he has locked away.

Episode 12: Erica, interrupted
After two years of time-travel therapy with Dr. Tom, Erica has visited the past, jumped to the future, side-stepped to alternate realities, and changed her life in the process - But now, Erica has arrived in a place she never thought she would see again: Right back where she started.

Episode 13: Fa La Erica
Erica is helping ho-ho-host 50/50 Press' first holiday party, much to the disappointment of her Rabbi father. In her effort to give Adam the perfect Christmas, Erica learns the true meaning of the holidays with visits to her friends' Christmases past, and one particularly memorable Hanukkah of her own.

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Season 4 Episode Guide



Episode 1: Doctor Who?
Erica begins the final stage of her therapy as a doctor in training, and she is shocked when her first patient is revealed to be someone she knows.

Episode 2: Osso Barko
50/50 Press' new assistant, Rachel is struggling under Julianne's particular management style, while Erica tries to get to the root of Julianne's bullying.

Episode 3: Baby Mama
Erica reels from Sam's shocking news. Barbara struggles to bury the past.

Episode 4: Born This Way
Brent is failing to jive with the new River Rock. Erica returns to her high school days in order to help an exchange student fit in.

Episode 5: Sins of the Father
Outside the office, Dr. Tom is repeating an old pattern. Erica and Adam hit a rough patch. Kai is back from the future.

Episode 6: If I Could Turn Back Time
Erica wishes for more control, and gets it when Dr. Tom grants her time-travel powers.

Episode 7: Being Ethan
Erica runs into Ethan, and they bond in both the present and past. Meanwhile, Brent and Julianne share a revelation.

Episode 8: Please, Please Tell Me Know
Everyone is keeping secrets, and Erica grapples with learning life's biggest secret of all.

Episode 9: Erica's Adventures in Wonderland
It's Dave and Ivan's wedding day, and Erica find herself living her own relationship fantasies.

Episode 10: Purim
Erica is sent back to her family's 1992 Purim party, after Erica gets an unwelcomed birthday surprise from Julianne.

Episode 11: Dr. Erica
Four years ago Erica Strange was single, barely making enough money to get by, and had a long list of regrets. Thanks to her time-travel therapist Dr. Tom, Erica has turned her life around, but nothing can prepare her for her most difficult challenge yet - saying goodbye.

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