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We got roped into watching Being Erica the way we're assuming most people did: through persistent advertising. Can you blame us? Its star, Erin Karpluk, was everywhere in the build-up to the show’s January 5 premiere; her image was especially prevalent on the concourse level of Union Station, where a series of Karpluks-in-costume greeted holiday pedestrian traffic. After a while, resistance proved futile.

Why does CBC's new show Being Erica, with all its snappy writing and solid acting, go out of its way to reduce Toronto to a robotic, corporate caricature of the sort that's lampooned across the rest of Canada?