Dr. Erica
Being Erica
Show summary:
Thirty-two years old, perpetually single and struggling economically, Erica Strange gets serious about understanding where it all went wrong with the help of the mysterious Dr. Tom. In each episode, Erica relives a deeply regretted part of her past and has the chance to do it all over again differently so as to make a positive change in her "present" life.
The series, which premiered January 5th, 2009 on CBC in Canada, is currently airing in the U.S. on the cable channel SOAPnet. In May of 2010, both CBC and SOAPnet announced plans to renew the hit dramedy for a third 13 episode season (Season Two had only twelve due to CBC budget cutbacks). While new episodes began airing in Canada on September 21, 2010, U.S. fans will have to wait until January of 2011 for Season Three of Being Erica.
Thirty-two years old, perpetually single and struggling economically, Erica Strange gets serious about understanding where it all went wrong with the help of the mysterious Dr. Tom. In each episode, Erica relives a deeply regretted part of her past and has the chance to do it all over again differently so as to make a positive change in her "present" life.
The series, which premiered January 5th, 2009 on CBC in Canada, is currently airing in the U.S. on the cable channel SOAPnet. In May of 2010, both CBC and SOAPnet announced plans to renew the hit dramedy for a third 13 episode season (Season Two had only twelve due to CBC budget cutbacks). While new episodes began airing in Canada on September 21, 2010, U.S. fans will have to wait until January of 2011 for Season Three of Being Erica.
Erica is sent back to her family's 1992 party, after Erica gets an unwelcomed birthday surprise from Julianne.
It's Dave and Ivan's wedding day, and Erica find herself living her own relationship fantasies.
Everyone is keeping secrets, and Erica grapples with learning life's biggest secret of all.
Erica wishes for more control, and gets it when Dr. Tom grants her time-travel powers
Outside the office, Dr. Tom is repeating an old pattern. Erica and Adam hit a rough patch. Kai is back from the future
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.
Erica reels from Sam's shocking news. Barbara struggles to bury the past.
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.
The final part of her therapy has Erica becoming a doctor herself, but things take a turn when her first patient is someone she never thought she'd end up helping.
Erica is helping ho-ho-host 50/50 Press' first holiday party. In her effort to give Adam the perfect Christmas, Erica learns the true meaning of the holidays with visits to her friends' Christmases past.
After three years of time-travel therapy with Dr Tom, Erica has visited the past, jumped to the future, and side-stepped to alternate realities.
Erica and Adam must both 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.
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 ...
When Erica goes back in time she uncovers a secret which could destroy 50/50 Press. Dr. Tom, feeling responsible for her predicament but constrained by the rules of therapy, forms an unorthodox plan for helping her, but ...
Dr. Tom's propensity for using his work to hide from his personal demons explodes when a long-lost, primal part of his past returns. Unfortunately, his feelings of utter helplessness cause him to erupt in rage at Erica, ...
Jenny is back in Toronto and admits to Erica that she made a mistake following her boyfriend to Reno and that she is in debt without a job in sight. Erica's and Julianne's business is in the middle of editing and promoti...
Erica realizes that she has feelings for Adam, she even dreams that they are together in bed. Dr. Tom tells Erica to be one day impulsive. It happens to be Pride Parade on this day and Erica's homosexual friend Cassidy i...
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.
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.
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...
Erica finds herself meeting up with Claire again, hours before Claire gets married to Ethan.
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 ...
Erica struggles with some big decisions, and she's desperate for a little direction.
Erica is introduced to an alternate reality, one that apparently doesn't involve a long list of regrets.
When Erica asks Dr. Tom to step in and help Kai, Dr. Tom allows his anger to take over, sending him on his own session back to the day he last saw his daughter.
Work on the sex book is in full swing, but when Erica discovers Kai is one of the case study volunteers, she's less than impressed.
Hiding in the past seems like a good idea when things get too overwhelming for Erica.
Erica discovers there are limitations to what she can do for others.
A significant career opportunity transports Erica back to a summer spent in Taipei.
Erica demonstrates less than inspiring parenting skills when she babysits Judith's son Max for the first time.
An argument with Ethan triggers a time travel journey back to camp for Erica.
Charged with supervising the launch of Katie's new book, Erica turns into a complete control freak. She soon realizes that her need to control might be contributing to the downfall of her relationship with Ethan.
Erica returns to her greatest regret, her brother 's death, only to discover the hard way that there are consequences to playing God. After all the good things that happened to Erica's life lately, there is still that on...
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 a...
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. Sh...
After Katie gets a book deal with River Rock Publishing, Erica is sent back to understand the source of her and Katie's "friendship".
Erica explores her feelings for Ryan by reliving an unusual love affair from her university days.
Erica's long-simmering relationship with her mother reaches a boiling point. Going back into the distant past, opens up Erica's eyes to who Barbara Strange really is.
With the stress of work and family life weighing heavily on Erica's shoulders, Dr. Tom decides to give her a break and sends Erica back to a "perfect day."
Erica is worried that her sister Samantha is marrying the wrong man in Josh. When she goes back to prevent Sam and Josh from ever getting together, Erica learns a big secret - one that threatens her relationship with her...
Tired of being treated like a child, Erica confronts the source of her reputation by returning to her bat mitzvah - only this time she will prove herself as a woman.
In order to conquer her fear of confrontation with her new bully of a boss, Erica is sent back to her first semester of University where she learns to finally stand up for herself against the daunting Professor Lozar.
When eternally-single Erica brings best friend Ethan to pose as her boyfriend at her high school reunion, she begins to understand the source of her relationship troubles with men through reliving the loss of her virgini...
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 ...
Seeking a better life, Erica Strange visits a mysterious therapist, , who allows her to go back in time and get another shot at her biggest regret from high school.
