Who, if not ShowTime, will shoot a decent comedy series in the United States? If it is a black comedy with elements of drama, here they can not find worthy competitors. ShowTime has already earned a name for himself as a channel permeable to air that others would never have dared to show in prime time. They spread the notorious pieces of understanding about tolerance and censorship.

They do not choke the profanity in his series, even if it sounds through the floor. And if we are talking about dirty jokes and double standards, they are close to what can now be seen in the UK, is not so concerned about morality and fearful trial.

ShowTime gives the world "Kalifreniyu", "Sister Jackie," "Shameless," "Weeds" and "Dexter." Each of these series is itself an event marked by critics and audiences. Because the premiere did not go unnoticed, at least it does not happen as often as we would like. The list of successful projects there is another, slightly less popular than others, a little different, but worthwhile - "Such different Tara" (translation: "The United States of Tara").

Who is Tara?

"Such different containers" - one-part comedy series for thirty minutes each. The plot revolves around Tara Gregson - woman suffering from dissociative personality disorder. What it is? This is the same "split personality", which like to show in the crime drama. In this series, reveals a different perspective on the problem of a person living with such mental disorders.

"Split" Tara is actually double: it is home to four different people. Should she get upset and lose control as it settles one of the alter personalities. T - teen girl who loves to go shopping. Buck - boorish man with the habits of Man pub. Alice - the perfect housewife, concerned about cooking and raising children. Fourth - Tara herself - an ordinary woman, living in a normal house with her husband and two children - students.

Close Tara have become accustomed to its "personality" and treat them leniently. Tara tries to cope with his illness without medication, she wants to subordinate all of their "I". But she does not go. She does not want to go back to treatment that depressed her, despite the fact that allowed control the "multiplication" of personalities. In this difficult battle with him Tara helps her husband Max and younger sister Charmaine. Her children, though, and try to look at all the transformation of mother's understanding, already rather tired of these surprises. After all, one can never be sure whether they will see in the morning or the mother "Vietnam veteran Buck."

Life Tara

Kate and Marshall teens. They need the support of the mother, and not all the "alter - I" that inhabit her mind. The husband of Tara, too, tired of the order of weirdness wife, who is drinking beer and playing darts, then dressed in shorts and listening to loud music, it is preparing ten dishes and drait house to shine. It can be understood: he married Tara, instead of all four personalities at once. In short, the family is not easy to have to Gregson.

"Such different packaging" is attracting attention because of the "star" of authors of the project. The producer of the show was made by Steven Spielberg, screenwriter - oskoronosnaya Diablo Cody, who wrote the screenplay "Juno." However, the most important in the series - is packaging that is an actress, starred - Toni Collette.

Collette is not just evoke images of four different characters on the screen, reincarnating in each of the personalities with remarkable reliability. She received for her work "Emmy". In the role of her husband starred John Korbatt. Children of this wonderful family - a young but promising actors Brie Larson and Keir Gilchrist.

The series was released in 2009. In March 2011, ShowTime released Season 3, composed, like previous ones, of the twelve episodes. "This is different Package" - this is a dramatic and comedy series at the same time. He's a smart, sharp social, sometimes bitter and it is always funny. It features an impressive actor's work and the reasonableness of scenarios, dialogues, halftones. Of course, against the background of many of his "colleagues in the kitchen", "Such different packaging" may fade. Out of this series of visual and gaming with "good and evil" in the same "shoals" or "Sister Jackie." Meanwhile, in this case it would be redundant. Let "Such different packaging" will be a black comedy with lyrical mood and hope for the light at the end of the tunnel. Hopeless irony of the mediocrity and hopelessness of the world, is also bored.

Anna Chizh

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