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All My Children Discussion Group
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I absolutely hated it that the warden thought it necessary to put Erica in isolation simple because she wants to help the women in prison who wants to better themselves. Despite this, I was too was mesmerized, though saddened, watching Erica as she literally tried to keep her sanity in that dreadful dim space of solitary confinement. In a short space of time Erica went from a resolute and funny lady to a breakable (but still NOT broken) and scared little girl.
I certainly would have talked to ladybug too! So sorry Gwendolyn flew away but where did she go, flying upwards, as that space only seems to have that slot for meal delivery, near to the floor.
I think that the warden feels threatened and is a coward for claiming to Erica’s face that she is protecting her when in reality she is punishing her for trying to help the other prisoners. It is horrendous that Erica’s actions of wanting to help in a useful way, warrants her being placed in such an inhuman isolation, by a warden of a prison – and I would love to see this despot removed from her position.
I hope when Erica gets out she will use her show to expose how the warden of this prison doesn’t want any changes that will empower her prisoners, thus helping to rehabilitate them and perhaps keep them from ending up in prison again once they are free.
Erica started doing her solitary confinement version of New Beginnings and I groaned out loud. Oh, noooo, another long, boring soliloquy! But she was charming and doggedly determined -- and funny, even, with her list of Three Don't's and her wee tiny joke.
I got sucked right into it. And when she started talking to the ladybug (Gwen! Inside joke!) -- well, Erica was beguiling and fragile and frightened. It was indeed mesmerizing.
(And CabanaBoy was a keeper!)
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