- Summary: Tara (Toni Collette) and her family try to cope with her dissociative identity disorder (formally called multiple personality).
- Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Jan 18, 2009
- Episode Length: 30
- Air Time: 10:30 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 24
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Mixed: 7 out of 24
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Negative: 2 out of 24
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100It's smartly written; clinically interesting (Why is Tara this way?), and maybe even a metaphor for the challenges all women face.
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60United States of Tara, which features Toni Collette as the title character and whose executive producers include Steven Spielberg, takes a riskier tack, giving the story a wide vein of comedy. In many ways, they pull it off.
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30Perhaps Tara will, over time, find something interesting to say. Perhaps it will be about the trauma that presumably led to the split in Tara's personality. Right now, however, what makes the show so painful is the abuse of her children, inflicted by Tara both in and out of split mode, and abetted by her pathologically laid-back husband.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 21
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Mixed: 1 out of 21
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Negative: 3 out of 21
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AlexioF10
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ShayS5Good idea, okay cast, bad scripts.
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JamesN2Fatuous, self-consciously quirky bilge lazily thrown together over a few awful conceits and caricatures.
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