After watching the pilot of the United States of Tara I felt I had to write a review.
This is horrible! And the fact that some "indie" fans on IMDb are applauding it is just sad IMHO. More and more a small minority of pretentious people are getting to call the shots in Hollywood and the results have been a disaster.
Showtime which was making some inroads against HBO by producing some good shows seems to now want to imitate them and the results for Showtime will be the same as for HBO. Cult fans for shows that regular people realize are stupid, low ratings and a lack of profits.
Fey, silly, quirkfests that rely on phony unrealistic story lines are the style that comes straight from crappy mostly unwatched Sundance films. Big on the festival circuit, BO flops when they go wide.
And yeah, I know Juno and Little Miss Sunshine were hits. I also know Chumscubber, Hamlet 2 and Eagle Vs. Shark had straight to DVD numbers when they were released.
Toni Collette is awful in this show. It was like watching a bad actor's exercise. John Corbett was likable, but could have just as easily been playing the new boyfriend on an episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine, the 20 year old that is playing a 15 year old was ridiculous because she plays much older, maybe that's why I wasn't creeped out about the teen sex until they said she was 15 in the show and then I just thought - "no, no, no!!!" another Diablo Cody creepy storyline that is so phony its ridiculous - and then there's the young boy - everything about him was phony - the kid in Two and Half Men is more realistic than this "kid" - a total writer's indulgence - And that's not even getting into the stupid "storyline" and the "goth kid" straight out of a 1980's John Hughes film - unbelievable -
This is horrible! And the fact that some "indie" fans on IMDb are applauding it is just sad IMHO. More and more a small minority of pretentious people are getting to call the shots in Hollywood and the results have been a disaster.
Showtime which was making some inroads against HBO by producing some good shows seems to now want to imitate them and the results for Showtime will be the same as for HBO. Cult fans for shows that regular people realize are stupid, low ratings and a lack of profits.
Fey, silly, quirkfests that rely on phony unrealistic story lines are the style that comes straight from crappy mostly unwatched Sundance films. Big on the festival circuit, BO flops when they go wide.
And yeah, I know Juno and Little Miss Sunshine were hits. I also know Chumscubber, Hamlet 2 and Eagle Vs. Shark had straight to DVD numbers when they were released.
Toni Collette is awful in this show. It was like watching a bad actor's exercise. John Corbett was likable, but could have just as easily been playing the new boyfriend on an episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine, the 20 year old that is playing a 15 year old was ridiculous because she plays much older, maybe that's why I wasn't creeped out about the teen sex until they said she was 15 in the show and then I just thought - "no, no, no!!!" another Diablo Cody creepy storyline that is so phony its ridiculous - and then there's the young boy - everything about him was phony - the kid in Two and Half Men is more realistic than this "kid" - a total writer's indulgence - And that's not even getting into the stupid "storyline" and the "goth kid" straight out of a 1980's John Hughes film - unbelievable -