I secretly thought that the show was inspired by Netflix's hit "Stranger Things". Both dramas also start out in ordinary life to make it easy for the audience to bring themselves into it. Then add mysterious elements, and then implicate a more grand background. In this way, the audience will be interested in watching to explore the mystery behind it. Stranger Things has superpowers, government labs, and a cold war. And "Erase and Start Again" also has superpowers, laboratories, and mysterious big companies, and involves profound issues such as time, multiple worlds, and so on. Of course, "Erase and Start Again" plays a double interpretation. Alma, did the whole story imagined in a schizophrenic brain, or did he really have superpowers that change time and space?
In my opinion, Alma has super powers. The main reason is that through her superpowers, she has repeatedly obtained information that she did not have before, such as the names of relatives of the guards, what happened in her father's laboratory, and so on. Of course, the screenwriter carefully concealed most of the clues, so it is difficult for the audience, whether it is a schizophrenic or a superpower, to have absolute evidence to convince the other party.
Interestingly, the characters of the play are also split into two categories. Most of Alma's relatives and friends, such as mother, sister, boyfriend, boss, etc., tend to think that Alma is schizophrenic. Such people are actually the majority. They will stick to their knowledge and experience to understand the world. When encountering unexplainable things, they tend to think that the things themselves are "wrong", and even use violence to correct them. Such people are the backbone of society and stabilizers. But because they are conservative, it is difficult for them to burst out new ideas.
The other type of people in the show is more similar to Alma, and therefore more agrees that Alma has superpowers. For example, a wizard the Alma family met in Mexico thought her unhinged grandmother might have been a shaman. There were also church priests who objected to Alma's mother forcing Alma to take psychiatric drugs. Farnaz, a student of Alma's father, also belongs to this category. They are more open and more willing to jump out of old thinking to understand the unknown. They are often pioneers in religion, art, philosophy, science, etc., and even lead the entire human civilization to complete leapfrog development. But such people are still a minority. In this minority, there are indeed a lot of really crazy people. Therefore, the first type of people tend to correct and even persecute the second type of people indiscriminately. In human history, Jesus, Van Gogh, Cantor are all famous examples.
Perhaps the core conflict of the show is between the majority of the first type of people and the minority of the second type of people. The second type of people, represented by Alma, experienced ups and downs in the first season, but after all, they were the underdogs who were suppressed. Especially at the end, when the truth about the father is revealed, and the outcome that Alma expected doesn't seem to have happened. Fortunately, the screenwriter gave Alma enough strength and stubbornness. This kind of character allows her to stick to her beliefs, and it also gives the second type of people the hope of "counterattacking" in the next season.
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