Review: Showtime's 'United States of Tara'

WHERE Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on Showtime REASON TO WATCH "Juno" scribe Diablo Cody has written a TV series; Steven Spielberg is attached as executive producer.

[John Flanagan]

I am so glad I don't subscribe to Showtime. The decline of our nation is being chronicled there, as Hollywood writers continue to scour the bottom of the entertainment sewer. It must be difficult for these sexual deviants and drug addicts to come up with new entertainment features regularly. It is especially difficult because degenerate minds need to feed on vulgarity, pornography, immorality and debased ideas, and are incapable of producing family oriented, decent, vulgur free story lines that one might be able to share with one's children on a typical Saturday evening in today's America.

[Awful]

This may be the worse show I have ever scene. No need to waste any more time trashing it.

[marie]

Your last comment was the key.."Why is Tara this way?" Dissociative Identity Disrder is caused by severe trauma before age SEVEN, most DID patients are victims of rape, incest, abuse, torture... I expect better of Speilberg . Is the acting good? Yes, but to make comedy out of mental illness perpetuates stereotypes. Whats next, Iran war vet PTSD escapades?

[Susa]

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 seem like a comedic life?

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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[benny]

Sorry...this show is amazing. Too bad you don't get it. Brilliant writing and plot.

John Flanagan wrote:

I am so glad I don't subscribe to Showtime. The decline of our nation is being chronicled there, as Hollywood writers continue to scour the bottom of the entertainment sewer. It must be difficult for these sexual deviants and drug addicts to come up with new entertainment features regularly. It is especially difficult because degenerate minds need to feed on vulgarity, pornography, immorality and debased ideas, and are incapable of producing family oriented, decent, vulgur free story lines that one might be able to share with one's children on a typical Saturday evening in today's America.

[Joff]

benny wrote:

Sorry...this show is amazing. Too bad you don't get it. Brilliant writing and plot.
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Can you explain how you think that the writing and "plot" are brilliant? By the way, what do you believe the "plot" is? Just amazing ignorance.

[susa]

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 have seen in the episodes so far, 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...

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

http://www.netmdc.com/~schaeffer/oursurvival....

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[I am the walrus]

Disgusting.

[Mike and Mel]

LOVE THE Show, chill out and stop trying to force your values and morals on others, if you dont like it change the channel!