You may have had your fill of my talking about Being Erica already, but the second season kicks off tonight on CBC, and having had a chance to watch there second season premiere, there's no way I could keep from throwing out my impressions.
You may know that we left off season one in fairly tricky circumstances, and Dr. Tom and Erica's entire relationship was up in the air. Season two opens with a whirlwind episode that I think I can safely say is the most interesting and best-developed second season premiere I've ever seen. When I talked with Erin Karpluk, she mentioned that she thought the second season was more engaging than the first, and it seems she was not just cheering from the field.
One of the key difficulties of Being Erica is that its general premise necessitates a certain amount of serious reinvention on an almost constant basis. However many regrets Erica may have walked into Dr. Tom's office with, skipping off to the past to set things in a new direction only works for so long in the most straight-forward terms. After the tenth or twentieth regret on your list, you're going to have a bit of trouble figuring what else threw your life of course.
The second season finds us with an Erica who is making strides, and has developed as a person to a great degree because of the trips into the past she's made already. Moreover, she is an Erica who is learning that maybe there is an end to blaming everything on things that didn't go quite perfectly, and there is something to be said for a character who grows and changes significantly over the course of a dozen or so episodes.
Tonight at 9:00, and Tuesdays at the same time thereafter, Being Erica becomes a whole new show, with new characters, serious twists, and an attention to writing progression that is possibly unparalleled. Do not miss it for anything. There is nothing on television I am more interested to see than the rest of Being Erica.
Being Erica also stars: Michael Riley, Tyron Leitso, Reagan Pasternak, Kathleen Laskey, John Boylan, Joanna Douglas, Vinessa Antoine, and Sebastian Pigott.
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