You grow up, you think you have nothing in common, but you always have the shared childhood. I think the emotional distance between the two women is why the show included that scene where they were playing patter cake - it reminded us that these two grew up together, filling in for a whole cornucopia of childhood bonding experiences.
They're two very different people and in some ways aren't close, but with that sibling tie I think adults often try to maintain that connection even if they would never spend time with that person if they weren't related. Maybe the show could use more moments where we see them being nice to one another though, so we see why they might continue to be in each others' lives so much.
Very late to the party When Tara pretended to be Buck, I was under the impression that she was mainly trying to figure out what the hell was going on by trying to assume the Buck persona, trying desperately to get some sense of the missing time. Almost a compulsion perhaps, especially after she thought she was recovering.
I thought a lot of that buildup of her trying on the persona was her terror at slipping that skin on--scared to death what she might find out.
I didn't get that she intended to break it off. It seems to me that the first season the alters and Tara had hard lines between them, a definite point when she transitioned. This season, the lines are fuzzy and mutable. Do you remember them saying that it would be get worse before it got better?
This is it getting worse, Tara becoming more aware of the alters as she simultaneously disintegrates and integrates. I wish that lesbian scenes in shows didn't always stir up interpretations in strange ways.
I'm straight, but I long for the time when same-sex depictions don't make people squirm and add connotations that I really don't think are there I don't think Max will excuse Tara's infidelity just because it's lesbian, and I can't imagine the show will go there based on the complex, non-stereotypical homosexual characters we've seen so far. Based on my own family's experience with mental illness, I think the speculations about the different reactions of the two siblings to their early probably fucked-up childhood are right on the money.
One thing you can be sure of is that there's no such thing as "the truth" of what went on. Everyone will have their own truth. This show is really growing on me. It's hitting some personal issues for me, as you can see.
Post a Comment. A review of tonight's "United States of Tara" - plus some guest commentary from Diablo Cody herself - coming up just as soon as my heterosexuality stresses me out People can change. And then they change right back. I wrote last week about how I understood Tara's reluctance to tell Max which predictably blew up in her face here when Pammy made a spectacle of herself at the ice rink , and even to an extent that she wouldn't be able to tell Pammy the whole truth upon finding out.
Pammy understands that Buck's not a man, but not that Buck isn't real. But to let two weeks go by with Buck in the life of that woman and her daughters, and then to apparently take advantage of Pammy's ignorance to satisfy Tara's own curiosity?
To me, when I first watched "The Truth Hurts," that bothered me a lot. Tara's not a perfect person, even when she's herself, but she never struck me as someone who would let others be hurt in this way. Here's what she had to say: The story of Pammy and Buck is meant to illustrate that Tara is becoming increasingly co-conscious with the alters. Last season Tara had to piece together video and stories to figure out what the alters were doing. This season, she's more aware, as illustrated by the way she "fights" with Buck over who gets the body, etc.
We thought about how it feels, physiologically, to have an affair with someone. You feel more attractive overall. You feel energized. You feel excited. Even though Tara isn't technically having the affair, she shares a body with Buck, who is. So she's feeling a lot of those warm fuzzies too.
And though she knows it's wrong once she realizes what's going on, she's addicted to Pammy in a strange, peripheral way. A DID patient told us about a time she'd impersonated one of her alters in order to gain more information about what the alter had been doing. You May Also Like. Eps Jane the Virgin Jane the Virgin. Genre: Comedy , Drama.
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More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Tara, a professional woman, artist, wife and mother, diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder formerly referred to as MPD - Multiple Personality Disorder stops taking her medication and struggles to unite her "alters" alternate personalities. As the seemingly disparate portions of her psyche seek to combine and peaceably co-exist, Tara, her husband, their kids, family and friends deal with the fallout, life and various morons who do not know their schizophrenia from their MPD.
Just your average mother, teenager, biker dude, housewife. Did you know Edit. Watching Marshall and Kate try to figure their lives out while their mother questions whether being on medication is worse or better has always been an eerily familiar feeling.
Often, Marshall and Kate are blind to the true obstacles Tara is up against despite how obvious they might seem. The visceral realities faced in Season 3 felt like they were leading to a grand epiphany—one for Tara, and also for her family as a whole. Tara ends with a gesture towards possible healing. The characters, though suspiciously optimistic, are still crawling out from rock bottom.
For me, it felt like an unresolved arc for me and my mom, and a chapter of our lives without closure.
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