Tara's worlds

Television series
German title	Tara's worlds
Original title	United States of Tara
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2009-2011
length	30 minutes
Episodes	36 in 3 seasons
genre	Dramedy
Theme music	Tim DeLaughter
idea	Diablo Cody
production	Diablo Cody Alexa Young (Season 1) Jill Soloway (Season 2) Darryl Frank Justin Falvey Eduardo Peixoto Dan Kaplow
music	Craig Wedren John Frizzell
camera	M. David Mullen
First broadcast	January 18, 2009 (USA) on Showtime
German-language first broadcast	March 4, 2011 on Das Erste
main actor
supporting cast

Tara's Worlds (Original title: United States of Tara ) is an American dramedy developed by Diablo Cody and broadcast from January 18, 2009 to June 20, 2011 on Showtime . The main role of Tara Gregson was played by Toni Collette , who received a Golden Globe Award and Emmy for this role .

The series was discontinued at the end of the third season in 2011.

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Tara Gregson is a married mother with two children. She suffers from dissociative identity disorder .

Tara's personalities

Toni Collette plays all seven of Tara's other “I's”, who take control of their behavior when stressed or emotions are strong.

• T is a teenager the same age as Tara's daughter Kate. She behaves very provocatively and dresses accordingly. She has a good relationship with Kate, provides her with the morning-after pill and often goes shopping with her. T often tries to seduce Max. Max refuses because he and Tara have an agreement that Max will not have sex with any of Tara's other personalities.
• Alice looks like the perfect American housewife from the 1950s and is very dominant. She thinks she is Tara's true personality and would like to be in control of the body around the clock. Alice is initially the only one able to communicate with all personalities and describes herself as the "guardian" over the other personalities. She gets along best with Marshall. Alice is a very devout Christian and prays for herself, her family and all other personalities of Tara every evening. She often tries to seduce Max because she wants to have a child of her own since she sees Kate and Marshall as Tara's children, not her own.
• Buck is a loud, rowdy, drinking and smoking man. He wears thick glasses and a trucker hat . Buck has a gun called Persephone and often goes to the shooting range with Max and Marshall . Unlike Tara's other personalities, Buck is left-handed. He feels sexually attracted to women and also harasses Kate's girlfriends. The “absence” of his penis is explained by the fact that it was shot down during the Vietnam War .
• In the third episode of the first season, Gimme appears as another personality of Tara. This identity stands for the unconscious and instinctual, which in psychoanalysis is called " it ". In the course of the series it becomes clear that Alice has known Gimme for a long time.
• Shoshana Schoenbaum is a new personality who appears for the first time in the second season. She is a therapist who communicates with Tara and all four other "I's". This personality relates to a former neighbor's therapist whose book Tara read. It is a means of balancing Tara, all of her personalities and her family.
• Chicken is another personality that won't make an appearance until the second season. Chicken is first seen in the eleventh episode of the second season. It's Tara at the age of five. As a chicken, she behaves like a typical toddler. Triggered by the revelations from Tara's childhood, Chicken comes to light. In the eighth episode of the third season, Alice announces that Chicken is missing. Soon after, Dr. Hattera that Chicken was killed by Bryce.
• Bryce Craine is another personality who first made an appearance early in season three when he got her to write the words You Can't Win on college paper. Later he makes Tara hurt herself. Bryce is based on Tara's half-brother, who once abused her as a child. In the eighth episode, Tara's psychology professor Dr. Hattera that he killed Chicken and that he wants to kill Tara too. Little by little he kills all other personalities.

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main actor

role	actor	Season	Voice actor
Tara Gregson	Toni Collette	1-3	Judith Brandt
Max Gregson	John Corbett	1-3	Tobias Kluckert
Kate Gregson	Brie Larson	1-3	Victoria Frenz
Marshall Gregson	Keir Gilchrist	1-3	Maximilian Artajo
Charmaine Craine	Rosemarie DeWitt	1-3	Gundi Eberhard

supporting cast

role	actor	Season	Voice actor
Lionel Trane	Michael J. Willett	2-3	Marcel Mann
Dr. Ocean	Valerie Mahaffey	1	Denise Gorzelanny
Gene Stuart	Nathan Corddry	1	David Turba
Jason	Andrew Lawrence	1	Constantin von Jascheroff
Neil	Patton Oswalt	1-3	Jens Wawrczeck
Nick Hurley	Matthew Del Negro	1-2	Jaron Lowenberg
Petula	Hayley McFarland	1	Marie-Luise Schramm
Tiffany St. Claire	Jessica St. Clair	1	Schaukje Könning
Pammy	Joey Lauren Adams	2	Dorette Hugo
Noah Kane	Aaron Christian Howles	3	Ricardo Richter
Sandy Gregson	Frances Conroy	3	Helga Sasse

Production and broadcast

The first broadcast of the first season started on January 18, 2009 on Showtime and ran until April 4, 2009. While the first season was still being broadcast - after four of the twelve episodes - Showtime extended Taras Welten for a second season also comprising twelve episodes . The second season aired from March 22nd to June 7th, 2010. After the first episode was broadcast, a third season, also comprising twelve episodes, was ordered. The third season aired from March 28 to June 20, 2011 in the United States.

In Austria, ORF secured the rights to the series. The ARD has the series since March 4, 2011 broadcast, first night in the first , then later on EinsFestival where she was on Tuesdays to see 20.15.

Episode list

Awards

Emmy 2009

• Leading actress in a comedy series : Toni Collette
• Outstanding Main Title Design

Golden Globe Awards 2010

• Best Actress in a Series - Comedy or Musical : Toni Collette

Nominated :
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2010

• Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy : Toni Collette

Web links

• United States of Tara in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• official page

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Junklewitz: United States of Tara: Showtime ends the series . Serial junkies . May 23, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tara's worlds. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on April 5, 2011 . 
3. ^ Thomas Umstead: Showtime United With Tara For Second Season . Multichannel news. February 10, 2010. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 4, 2011. 
4. ↑ Daniel Fienberg: Showtime renews 'Nurse Jackie,' 'United States of Tara' . HitFix.com. March 25, 2010. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
5. ^ Robert Seidman: "Nurse Jackie" and "United States of Tara" Return on March 28th, "The Borgias" Premieres April 3rd on Showtime . TV by the Numbers . January 14, 2011. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
6. ↑ ORF bulges, Heinzl spills . The standard. September 21, 2010. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
7. ↑ Surprise: US series "United States of Tara" in the first . Wishlist. January 18, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2011.