Being Erica

- Season 1

(2009)

Erica loses her job and boyfriend. A latte sample with nuts sends her to the hospital. She meets Dr. Tom. She consults him and makes a list of what went wrong in her life. She's suddenly back in high school, 16 not 32 y.o.

Erica goes back to 1995, her second year of university, where she is invited to join a secret society.

Erica attends high school reunion, bringing Ethan as her "boyfriend". Dr. Tom takes Erica back to 1994, just before losing her virginity to Zach.

Erica starts her job at River Rock Publishing, and travels back to April 1995 to confront her creative-writing professor.

Erica holds a baby shower for Judith, thinking that she'll be godmother. Dr. Tom sends Erica back to her Bat Mitzvah (13 y.o.) to help her understand her reaction.

Sam's getting married and Erica's maid of honor. Erica has doubts about the groom. She asks Dr. Tom to go back to when they broke up and Erica regrettably fixed it.

Erica is facing a lot of stress in her life. Sam is no longer talking to her and never wants to see her again. Marcus Stahl wants to renege on the book deal of writing his memoirs since he can't visit that dark place in his past. Because she feels her sessions with Dr. Tom have so far made her life worse than better, she wants to quit. However, Dr. Tom offers her a gift because of her stress: he will send her back to any day she wants where she was the cause of the day being perfect. She chooses a time as a teenager, taking a day trip to Toronto Island with Leo and ...

It's Yom Kippur, and there is much pressure within the Strange family for everyone to reconcile, especially Erica and Sam, but also Gary and Barb, the latter who has has always resented her husband's decision to be a rabbi, and Erica and Barb. Dr. Tom sends Erica back to Yom Kippur 1997 - the year following Leo's death - when Gary and Barb were having a fight over his spending so much time at the synagogue, with Erica siding with her father. In addition to Barb wanting a divorce following that incident, Erica and Barb's relationship has since been an antagonistic one....

Erica travels back to December 1999, when her best friend was a lesbian.

In an attempt to mend her friendship with Katie, Erica travels back to Halloween 1993.

Attempting to alleviate the awkwardness in her friendship with Ethan, Erica travels back five months to the night of her high school reunion.

Erica's promotion to junior editor may be in jeopardy; she travels back to 2001 and participates in a vampire live action role-playing game.

Erica's life is finally going great, both personally and professionally. But the fact that December 13th is approaching is weighing heavily on her mind, that date being the anniversary of Leo's death, which is still her biggest regret in life. Leo died at the age of 21 in a barn fire at her grandmother's farm, the fire that appears to be an accident of Leo's own doing. The farm is now the unofficial grave site where the family visits only once a year to mourn. Erica wants things to change, to make Leo's memory more of a happy thought than a somber one. Her idea is to ...