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[[File:united-states-of-tara-season-3_8744.jpg|frame|[[Battle in the Center of the Mind|Conference in the center of the mind]].]] |
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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}}. |
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}}. |
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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. |
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. |
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Kate's first shown boyfriend (Ben, I think) is a Goth and an abusive douchebag. |
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Kate's first shown boyfriend (Ben, I think) is a Goth and an abusive douchebag. |
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* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Depending on the person, Buck. Depending on even stranger people, {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy|Bryce]].}} |
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Depending on the person, Buck. Depending on even stranger people, {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy|Bryce]].}} |
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