Mixed impressions. On the one hand, an interesting idea with the ability to rewrite life white. On the other hand, the implementation is not perfect. The main actress lacks charm, she overplays in places. The style of the series is very dry and academic. I occasionally caught myself thinking that I was watching a film adaptation of a psychology textbook. Hardly finished season 1, I will not continue
'Being Erica' is a very cool series that I think all girls from 18 to 45 should watch. And I'm sure the series will be appreciated by males if they watch it with their halves. It’s about a girl named Erica who has a unique opportunity to travel back in time to correct her mistakes. Amazingly touching line of the series, which shows the relationship of the main character with her brother and her experience of his tragic death. The boy, who plays Erica's brother, also plays in the TV series ' Hundred' the same sad and beautifully depressed character, who also eventually dies, and voluntarily, tired of fighting for survival. The actor is very successful in such a role and the viewer is literally imbued with touching sympathy. To be honest, I haven’t watched the series. In the first two seasons, Erica & #39 had love & #39; with such a cool boy, it was infinitely nice to watch them. In the third season, Erica changed her partner to some unattractive guy who didn’t suit her at all, so I stopped watching, but maybe someday... there’s still season 4. My subjective assessment of the first two seasons 10 out of 10
“I remember every lesson...” said Erica when she was tried to convince her that everything she had experienced was unreal.
She realized that even if the real world is not the same as she remembers it, then it is certainly unpleasant, but it is not fatal because she certainly changed thanks to the lessons she passed and now knows who she is, where she goes and what she lives for! . .
As I watched the series, Erica Strange closed one door after another, behind which my regrets from the past had long lived. And at that moment, there were windows opening somewhere, through which oxygen began to flow into my life!
I started breathing full again! There are desires, aspirations, faith in yourself and in a bright future!
And if someone, just like me or the main character of the series “Being Erica”, is confused in their lives... I would say to him (slightly changing the phrase on the doctor's card from this film):
This series is the only doctor you need!
10 out of 10
Accustomed to the bright - not always! - and alluring pilots of American TV shows, I wasn't particularly impressed with the first shots of the Canadian show. Well, some strange scenery, people like people, boredom. And here we go.
Maybe it all coincided – the stars, the conditions, the crisis – but the topic was close to me. What if we could change the past? Rewrite it again, armed with current experience, who have scrolled the situation in their head more than once. What would have happened if I had... What?
Erica solves these issues day by day. Yes, at some point you get tired of the predictability of the problem, the past, the options, the decision, the acceptance — but still look and look at the screen, where the average girl understands and accepts truths that are simple, but so complex when they touch you.
There are no accidents, this series came to me at the right time.
Erica is rather a collective image of the modern average woman over 30: well-groomed, intelligent, she has friends and loving parents.
And to live, but there is 'a big spoon of tar: The girl does not know what she wants, lives by past mistakes and can not let go of resentment and guilt.
From this, everything in her life goes awry, she does not feel normal and confident. What happens inside her, she projects outward and therefore others perceive her as she sees herself.
In one of the most unsuccessful days in her life, Dr. Tom appears, who easily sends Erica into the past, helping to unravel the tangle, work out and close every past situation that left an imprint on Erica’s life.
The series makes you wonder whether you should regret past mistakes at all or better treat them differently. The plot is seasoned with aphorisms and quotes of great personalities of all times, which are timely pronounced by the charming doctor Tom.
Those who are confused, fell into the blues or just tired – watch it.
'What if we go back in time and change our choices, but then will we still be ourselves after that?'
Season 4 in one breath. A film about understanding cause and effect relationships, the meaning of one’s own choices, the nature of life’s regrets, and about realizing oneself through making one’s desires, decisions, personal experiences.
I recommend it as a pleasant, easy and useful leisure.
'The only therapy you need. The result is guaranteed.'
When I read the brief summary, I thought: ' Holy shit, I've been dreaming about it all my life!' Seriously, who hasn't dreamed of going back in time to correct a ridiculous mistake? And the main character Erica Strange got such a chance. However, I received not just another fiction, but a rather diverse work with food for thought.
Honestly, I have to admit that the elements of fiction are minimized, and if time travel were replaced by, say, hypnosis (when watching the pilot it seemed to me that way), the series would not lose anything from this. It's more of a comedy and drama about decision-making and the complexity of human relationships. The further I went, the more I found parallels with my life. And even if you have little in common with the 32-year-old single and unemployed main character, I think you will still find something to think about in this series, because the questions raised in it are universal for every person.
What really stuck with me was that making adjustments to my past didn't really show up in Erica's real life. But it gave an opportunity to better understand her loved ones, to look at herself from the outside and generally think about whether some of her decisions were so bad. In addition, ' Being Erica' conveys to the viewer a very important idea: trying to correct the mistakes of the past, do not break firewood in the present.
However, the review will still be neutral (and not positive, as I thought when I first started). Season 4 for the series is quite a bit, but if it was even shorter, I would only win. If there is still something to pay attention to in the third season, then the 4th is already replete with self-repeats and, mostly, muzzles the lessons that Erica seemingly already learned in previous seasons, while not adding any new thoughts to their understanding. In addition, from the third season, an increasingly significant part begins to occupy a little & #39; soap & #39; turns. However, I will not completely slander the last season and note that the final series I really liked: all the storylines came to their logical conclusion and it is very life-affirming.
Finally, I would like to add that if you are suddenly frightened by such a complex topic of self-digging and difficulties in human relations, I hasten to assure you that with all this, the series is very interesting and looks in one breath.
In the country of lawyers and psychoanalysts among the dominance of serial lawyers and xerocoped costumes, well, how not to appear a series about brain therapy?!
The series is not built stupidly. Dr. Tom is perceived as the voice of Erica’s own mind (although Tom is noticed by others), as if her inner self-medication by thinking about “what would have happened if....” And these thoughts can fit in a split second. But the last episode of the opening season shakes up my first impression of the series, making it an updated and even unexpected kaleidoscope pattern. Time travel? Interesting.
Erika's culbits look ridiculous when the situation changes. It would seem time to get used to that now there will be something, when meeting with which it is worth lowering the bar of emotionality, but no, she successfully continues to beat dishes, drop things and shy away from people. Overplay?
A good thing is that the therapist becomes a patient. Often the leader needs help no less than the follower. And the combination of past and future looks so organic that you believe that people from different times live on your street or even in your entrance, meet you on public transport on the way to work.
The series subtly and in detail reveals the principle of mentoring.
Erica is the average arithmetic of most people. She is not completely happy, but she does not drink from endless despair. She works as an editor of various instructive and interesting books, and does not even suspect that she has become a key figure in the self-help manual and analysis of life, and in a rather not boring manual. For those who are afraid to learn the cost of mistakes in practice, the library works around the clock, with a break on the toilet and sandwiches. Read and analyze. For those who are tired of thinking and evaluating, watch and have fun.
8 out of 10
We all make mistakes. Some are irreparable and entail a lot of grief, while others are so trivial that it is foolish to inflate a tragedy out of them. Yes, there are a lot of little things that you would like not to do or do otherwise, but you do not even think about fixing the most terrible ones. Perhaps this is because in your heart you understand that the irreparable is not in vain has such a name. You need to learn from your mistakes, be able to overcome difficulties, try to reduce everything to minimal damage.
That’s what the show should have taught us. It would seem that it may be easier to treat the main character to their problems with self-irony. But no, Strange Erica thinks the past is to blame. And it's not the past with parents always drunk, or with psychological and physical pressures at school. She believes that all the fault of her wrong actions, like the first sexual experience with the wrong guy, or the inability to fight back the teacher while reading poems of his own composition. And such actions Erica remembered in the first place, and the death of his brother is the last in the list of mistakes of life that she would like to correct, presented to the doctor.
The plot is between drama and comedy and can not be determined. The transition from one genre to another is very rough. You can literally feel them physically.
And now we come to the main problem of the series - the heroes. They are pathetic and empty, do not cause any feelings. And the most terrible and amazing thing is that for so many seasons they have not developed for the better. The main character, Erica, is very selfish and so self-obsessed that she does not cause any feelings in me except disgust. I think she needs a few slaps instead of listening to all her whining. Yes, she did everything wrong and wrong in her life, but it is not as significant as the death of her brother. She had to drop her self-pity and try to learn to live for two. And any attempts of the main character to joke seem to liberate the body from accumulated bile.
A psychology doctor goes out of his way to seem like a wise man. But he lacks communication with ordinary people, and basic everyday experience. And all the words torn from his lips are nothing but the sayings of other people who have been wised by experience. The doctor has too few words. And this does not give credibility to his professional suitability.
The only bright ray among this rat-coat I mistakenly thought was Erica's best friend, who had moved to the city after an unhappy love. But closer to the middle of the story, this cheerful character exhausted himself. Like Erica, he starts to whine and do nothing.
Bottom line: a weak, unremarkable series trying to climb into a cult niche it didn’t deserve. Just a murder of time.
Who does not dream of having a good wizard in reserve who will help solve personal problems?
Most dream, lucky only Erica Strange, an ordinary 32-year-old resident of Toronto, which does not develop relationships, career and gnaws a lot of regrets. In the most desperate period of her life, the girl meets Tom, a psychotherapist who with genuine interest listens to her problems and sends her back to the past. Giving the opportunity to rectify the situation, the doctor does not forget to serially give on the track a clever statement of someone from the great, whether it is Buddha or Exupery. So when watching you can not only have a good time, but also to enlighten.
Regrets from Erica’s life are close to everyone: she set up a friend, did not work out with a guy, missed a good opportunity. And although the outcome of almost every episode is predictable, I watched the series and with Erica reflected on my past.
The actors are well-chosen: cute Karplak (Erica), whom you start to like immediately, Michael Riley (Dr. Tom) is an impressive man with deep eyes. It wasn’t until season 3 that I was constantly annoyed by Adam Fergus (aka Adam in the series). With all his appearance, he says, “I’m a loser.” And in general, Adam in his performance is an unforgettable secondary hero.
Speaking of secondary heroes. With each season, they appear more and more, and watching their fates is no less exciting than the main character.
The video series pleases the eye: the cozy office of Dr. Tom is full of books and very similar to Dumbledore, there are no enchanting stars and computer sketches when moving to the past and back. The fact that the girl is already in another time we learn from her surprised and frightened face, although, by season 3, it would be time for her to get used to it.
A melodic soundtrack with female vocals and unobtrusive music at the right moment - everything harmoniously complements the plot.
In general, “Being Erica” can be described only by the best epithets: kind, life-affirming, interesting, soulful. And not exactly snotty. Even my boyfriend joined the viewing from the second season.
9 out of 10
For not only making time brighter, but also making you think about your own life.
Does that happen in life? Attractive and talented girl day by day encounters corners and irregularities of life. What's wrong? Is it accidental? But some errors and ' corners ' repeated from time to time. I couldn’t make a career here and there. It failed to create a relationship with the first, the other, and even the seemingly perfect one. . .
I think that the series takes the question of our everyday difficulties and concrete momentary decisions from this very ' everyday ' into the scale of a lifetime.
If you want to change something ' seriously and for a long time', make sure that your new decision today remains the same new decision tomorrow (and does not close again in ' vicious circle');), then you need to change the very foundations. 'Roots', not 'tops'. And right now, not ' Monday'.
You cannot go back in linear time. Erica moves forward, going back in her inner world. And, ' comes back ' being different (otherwise, she would just repeat her mistakes). And by changing (and actually creating) decisions, it changes itself. I think a lot of people should be Erica, actively directing their lives.