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 life seem like a comedy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZcEsOQFXc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5DEV6OqPJk

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


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...and I forgot to mention, better written than my own worst enemy!

I watched it and I loved it. Nice, unique premise. Nice acting. Nice family who'd rather have their screwed up mother than a robot. Funny as well. The dynamic reminded me a little of the riches. I will be keeping my eye on this.

I'm ready to give this a chance. When I say Juno and first 20 minutes was brimming with annoying chatter and too-hip phrases, I thought I was going to hate it. But the movie settled in to its rhythm and I imagine The United States of Tara will take a few episodes to fall into an enjoyable rhythm as well.

Besides, how many good pilots made people think a show would be awesome and it wasn't (Studio 60--though I enjoyed most of the show anyway) and the opposite holds true. It can take a new show a few episodes to feel its way through.

I saw this the other day on On Demand...I wasn't too impressed. It just doesn't grab me the way Californication, Weeds, This American Life, or BS! did.

It's...interesting...though.

I just want to watch it because Nate Corddry will be showing up.

Um...so the mother has a multiple personality disorder and her kids don't bat an eyelash? (Except, of course, to trade oh-so-hip dialogue and snark)

Not so good.

It's also on Netflix Instant Watch until February 3rd.

I watched the pilot on SHO HD ondemand yesterday. It was OK, but I doubt I could watch it every week. Toni Collett is great in it, but the writing is very annoying.