by Daniel Erenberg

Toni Collette is going to win an Emmy for her performance in the new Showtime series, The United States of Tara. After all, this is the kind of performance that the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category was built for. As Tara, a woman with split personalities, she is also required to play three “alters,” including T, a 15 year-old lolita who is besties with Tara’s teenage daughter, and Buck, a chain-smoking southern hunter. In these three characters we see her inhabit throughout the pilot episode, Collette is heartbreaking and vulnerable one moment, and tough and hilarious the next. And we believe it every step of the way.

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January 20, 2009 at 7:44pm