New Canadian Show

The following is the link to a television review by Ginia Bellafante:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/arts/television/26eric.html?ref=television

Bellafante is reviewing a Canadian series called "Being Erica" that is premiering on SoapNet. She starts out by listing off the horrible shows that the Canadians have recently produced, and then goes on to say that this one rectifies all that, clearly let readers know that she likes it.

She lets us know what the show is about - a very intelligent 32-year-old woman who can travel back in time, but can't seem to find a man. There's also good context for how the show fits in with other shows/movies that portray single women currently, and Bellafante seems to think this one does a really good job.

"Though the show’s dramatic pleasures are ultimately modest, its willingness to portray single womanhood as something beyond a sum of consumer choices or the embodiment of a disabling passivity feels useful and perhaps even necessary, the right kind of counterprogramming to balance the mood of the moment. Erica would rather know herself — her curious, real-world pretty, bat mitzvahed, whimsical self — than go looking for Chanel motorcycle boots at an outlet mall or compulsively check her text messages to see if some jerk had really intended to buy her a bourbon."

I thought that was really interesting, and it's a really thing to see on TV right now, too. And I always love how Bellafante gets personality in her pieces. She has a really witty remark about the APA, and then ends by saying "For anyone still absorbing the unhealthful aftereffects of “Shopaholic” or “He’s Just Not That Into You,” a movie in which women’s lives change only when men say so, “Being Erica” is likely to feel like more than a good, cold drink. It will be a free-radical-bashing antioxidant." Thank God.