Showing posts with label United States of Tara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States of Tara. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

United States of Tara, or How Toni's amazing

So comes the end of United States of Tara Season 1. We met Buck (who's a lefty), Alice (who's in charge), t (who's sex-crazed) and gimme (who's a forest animal minus the cute?) - all of Tara's alter(ed state)s. 

Codyisms ran amok, pop culture references went through the roof, indie soundtrack prevailed but all in all I really enjoyed hanging out with these characters. Honestly, using DID (while still staying true to it) to depict (dys)functional families makes for great television. Throw in lopsided boobs, Christian closet cases, Patton Oswalt, self-made sex toys, sexual harassment in the workplace, suburban ennui, a green VW beetle, a hellhouse, and really all I can say is: can someone please get Toni Colette her Emmy?

Thursday, January 15, 2009

United States of Tara, or How Toni's a hoot!

United States of Tara
Written by Diablo Cody
Starring: Toni Collette, John Corbett, Rosemarie DeWitt, Brie Larson & Keir Gilchrist.

If you love Toni you'll tune in so instead of trying to praise this (albeit uneven) Diablo Cody penned pilot, I'll just highlight what I loved:

"I can't deal with this right now..."

"Cougar crossing!"

"It tastes homo-made."

"You're not going to the gun range. That's our guy thing, that's three."

Rosemarie DeWitt or How I'm Seeing Double


Rosemarie DeWitt deals with a troublesome sister:
(It's Toni - she has multiple personality disorder!)

Rosemarie DeWitt deals with a troublesome sister:
(It's Anne, she's got crazy hair and thinks she's Sheba!)