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Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:53 PM
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Samantha Henig
Is anyone else nursing a total girl crush on Erin Karpluk, the star of the new show Being Erica? She plays a smart, pretty 32-year-old with a master's degree who just hasn't turned into the success story she knows everyone expected her to be. Instead, she's wandering the streets in her dorky green PJs, struggling to snag a job or a man she really loves and obsessing over the choices she's (possibly incorrectly) made.
That's the gist. Now, the top three reasons you should watch it tonight at 10 p.m. on the Soap Network:
3. Time travel! That's how she gets to revisit all those bad choices. It may sound cheesy, but just think how often that combination of melodrama and sci-fi has done us right: Lost, Heroes, Buffy, the last season of Felicity. OK, maybe not the last season of Felicity.
2. Erica doesn't always fix her mistakes when she relives them. That would be dumb. And this show is not dumb.
1. Revisiting Erica's past means revisiting the music of the '90s. Four Non-Blondes, the Spin Doctors, Blind Melon. Beautiful.