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Tara Gregson ([[Toni Collette]]) is a mid-30s mother of two with [[Split Personality|Dissociative Identity Disorder]]. After Tara [[No Medication for Me|takes a break from her meds]] to discover the cause, three of her alters resurface: Buck, a male alter who likes the firing range and claims to have lost his member in 'Nam; Alice, a 1950s housewife who claims to have attended Radcliffe at Harvard; and T, a pot-smoking, flirty teenager who likes maxing out Tara's credit cards. {{spoiler|Additional alters surface during the course of the series: Gimme, a [[Wild Child]] seemingly incapable of speech; Shoshana Schoenbaum, a therapist whose book Tara read, and who is a dead ringer for the real deal; Chicken, Tara's personality when she was a child; and Bryce Craine, an alter based on Tara's half-brother}}.

 

 

The series was created by [[Steven Spielberg]] and written by [[Diablo Cody]]. It began running on [[Showtime]] in January of 2009 and ran for three seasons.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: {{spoiler|The Bryce Craine storyline}}.

* [[Character Development]]: Everyone. The most obvious examples would be Kate and Charmaine's transformations over the series.

** Subverted as of Season 2. Max in a {{spoiler|fit of rage beats the hell out of the contractor who didn't show up to fix up the new house he bought. [[Crosses the Line Twice|On his kid's birthday]]}}.

* [[Club Kid]]: Lionel likes parties, drugs, and anonymous sex.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: {{spoiler|Gene}} gets ''really'' creepy over Kate. As does Courtney over Marshall, though to a lesser degree.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Alice. Trapped in an eternal Eisenhower era housewife personality, said to secretly get drunk off cooking wine and initially seems hellbent on staying in control of Tara's body. Though over time her own psychosis lessens as she learns to work with Tara.

** In Season 3, some alters {{spoiler|were having conversations with each other while Tara was [[Locked Out of the Loop]]. But she was still able to see and hear them}}.

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: Pretty solidly averted. T is a pretty easy fit into the Seductress, but that's complicated by her being the literal Child of the three. Alice seems to be the Mother, but she's also highly sexual while still being naïve enough to believe that Tara's IUD won't work because she doesn't "believe in them". Tara's just complicated, as people tend to be.

 

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