United States of Tara

Summary: Tara Gregson is a wife and mother of two children in the suburbs of Kansas City who has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID). Whenever she is stressed, she transitions into one of her alternate personalities: wild and flirty teenager T; 1950s housewife Alice; and male, loud, beer-drinking Vietnam vet Buck. A fourth personality, Gimme, is introduced later in the first season. During the second season of the series, two further personalities were introduced. The former, called Shoshana, is Tara’s “therapist” of sorts, while the sixth personality’s name is Chicken, an infantile representation of Tara when she was 5 years old. Tara is supported by her husband Max, daughter Kate, and son Marshall, who is gay. Her sister, Charmaine, is somewhat promiscuous and not very supportive of Tara, as she often expresses doubts about the validity of her sister’s disorder. The show is set in Overland Park, Kansas.
Premiered: January 18th, 2009
Show status: On Break
Number of seasons: 2
Next new episode: Season 3 Episode 1 – …youwillnotwin… – airing March 28th, 2011



Season 2

Episode 1 – Yes
Episode 2 – Trouble Junction
Episode 3 – The Truth Hurts
Episode 4 – You Becoming You
Episode 5 – Doin’ Time
Episode 6 – Torando!
Episode 7 – Dept. of Fucked Up Family Services
Episode 8 – Explosive Diorama
Episode 9 – The Family Portrait
Episode 10 – Open House
Episode 11 – To Have and to Hold
Episode 12 – From This Day Forward