United States of Tara Preview

The first preview for the Diablo Cody-scripted Steven Spielberg-produced Showtime series, United States of Tara. Toni Collette stars as Tara Gregor, a wife and mother of two teens, who just happens to suffer from multiple personality disorder. Basically the family must find a way to deal and live with her multiple personalities.

I might have read the script. And if I did, I’d tell you how it’s peppered with Cody’s pop-culture obsessed snap-filled dialog, minus the intense slang of Juno. And it’s not light either. In the opening it is revealed that Tara has just found morning after pills in her 16-year-old daughter’s Kate’s bag. It’s later revealed that (potential spoiler warning) one of Tara’s alter egos, a burnout teenage stoner named T, was the one who supplied her with said pills. If Collette can actually pull off each of the personalities, and actually make it believable, this could be Showtime’s next Dexter.

United States of Tara premieres on January 18th 2009.

  • ANGRY BROOMSTICK
    sweeet. I got a hold of the screenplay, it;s very promising.
  • Jack Donaghy
    So its like Little Britain but without being funny?
  • helicopters
    what's with the random boob-zoom on toni??
  • Patrick O'Riley
    It's more like Little Britain but funny.
  • May
    Eagle Eye was an original idea by Steven Speilberg too and look what that turned into. I feel sorry for Diablo Cody but the fact of the matter is...she's just not that good. Seems like a cool lady though.
  • Captain Awesome
    "So its like Little Britain but without being funny?"
  • I need to get Showtime. Or stream it off SideReel.
  • you can watch the premiere free on Fancast.com starting 1.8.09. visit www.fancast.com
  • Windmillninja
    OMG you guys Diablo Cody has a...tatTOO?!? She really lives on the fuckin' edge, man!
  • Since the first time I heard about this, I'm dieing to see the pilot of these series. This Preview only tells me it will be worth waiting for...
  • greycolumbus
    Considering that its a "Spielberg original", why does the preview play out like a cheap Mad TV skit? I at least had some HOPE for Eagle Eye.
  • Jento22
    I thought the show was great...it was halarious and different. I loved it.
  • Apparently Showtime doesn't want to know the REAL facts about DID, and what a person who has DID struggles with on an hourly basis. I feel insulted to have received an obvious "form email letter" in response to my heartfelt email to Showtime. What I saw in the first episode, is that Mr. Spielberg is using "sex, sex, and more sex", to sell a series.

    At least with the massive number of anti-Tara emails that Showtime obviously has received from DID sufferers, they have included an "informative" video from Dr. Kluft; however, even in his short documentary, he did not address the magnitude of the horrific childhood sexual abuse that causes Dissociative Identity Disorder. The so called "consultant" that the writer, Diablo Cody is conferring with, had DDNOS, not DID. Apples and oranges... sigh.

    Imagine for a moment, if you can: A new Showtime series called, "The Deformed State of Tara" - a COMEDY about a girl who confronts comedic situations in her every day life revolving around her dealing with her inability to climb stairs, her sexual encounters, and her comedic experiences with people staring at her scarred and deformed face and arms. (As a child, her parents had physically abused her so intensely, that her repeatedly broken bones resulted in a leg amputation, and the repeated burns the parents inflicted on her arms and face resulted in grotesque scarring which made her face appear as almost inhuman.)

    This scenario is NO DIFFERENT than creating a "COMEDY" about a person who suffers from a disorder caused by repeated, early childhood RAPE AND INCEST. One might say that the results of childhood physical abuse are apparent to outsiders, but the results of childhood sexual abuse resulting in Dissociative Identity Disorder are also readily apparent to others in public. Raping young children is NOT comedic.

    Does this life seem like a comedy?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZcEsOQFXc

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5DEV6OqPJk
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