For a good portion of its run United States of Tara found that happy medium between quirk-fest and serious exploration of one woman’s psychosis. The first season is highly addictive, but a little too front loaded on the quirky marginalizing of how debilitating, dangerous and series having multiple personalities can be. And the ending of the third season gets so dark that it practically feels lik... read more
Description:Academy Award-nominated actress Toni Collette ("Little Miss Sunshine") as a wife and mother who suffers from disassociative identity (formerly multiple personality) disorder.
The series will delve into how a dysfunctional family, including Tara's working husband played by John Corbett ("Sex and the City"), copesAcademy Award-nominated actress Toni Collette ("Little Miss Sunshine") as a wife and mother who suffers from disassociative identity (formerly multiple personality) disorder.
The series will delve into how a dysfunctional family, including Tara's working husband played by John Corbett ("Sex and the City"), copes with the various identities that may appear on any given day and range in age, temperament and even gender.... (more)(less)
“For a good portion of its run United States of Tara found that happy medium between quirk-fest and serious exploration of one woman’s psychosis. The first season is highly addictive, but a little too front loaded on the quirky marginalizing of how debilitating, dangerous and series having multiple personalities can be. And the ending of the third season gets so dark that it practically feels like an altogether different show, but that glorious middle period is what made me love it.
The main players of the show are Tara, her alters and her family. The alters allow for Toni Collette to stretch her acting muscles and show just how good she really is. She never falters for a moment and throws herself into every crazy situation with commitment and panache. Seriously, any actress who” read more
GeorgiaC added this to a list 3 months, 4 weeks ago
"Watched 1 & 2 & 3 season of 12 episodes
1 season: love it! Just hilarious, but I understand why it just click with me after seeing Spielberg name during the credits :)The second season is a bit boring so far. Tara developes really slow, there is no plot for Kate and Marsh is just confused. Charmaine is still cool though. The ending was interesting than the whole season. 3 season: average."
GreenTissueBox added this to a list 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Plot: A woman struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family.
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Network: Showtime
Status: Ended/Canceled
Favorite character: Tara Gregson
Annoying character: -"
NMartucci added this to a list 1 year, 1 month ago
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