Tonight Australia finally got a taste for the show America has been enjoying for about 6 months now - the United States of Tara, starring none other than our own Toni Collette, written by the brilliant Diablo Cody. It's an hilarious but also saddening look at dissociative identity disorder - i.e. a woman with muliple personalities, who reverts into herself and becomes another person when faced with stressful and confronting situations.
Based on the one half hour episode I've seen, yes, I'm raving. Collette is amazing as all of her characters; we can't wait to see Alice, who we only got a glimpse of, not to mention the saucy 15 year old minx T and the gun-toting, root-tootin' hill billy Buck (as seen below, respectively).
With a young son Buck likes to call some varitation of "faggot," "homo" and "Marsha," a daughter who bought the morning after pill and is dating a "powerpuff boy," and a husband who can't resist the naughty, tempting T, this dysfunctional family is bound to get more interesting and entertaining by the week. The show is sure to go some ways towards filling the somewhat diminished (in terms of their greatness) hole on Wednesday nights left by the Chasers (can't believe it's the last War.)
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JAG
1 comment:
This sounds really interesting. I've been a big fan of Colette since I first saw The Sixth Sense, and think she's a very underrated actress. Shame we don't get this here!
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