Monday, March 28, 2011
TV Tonight: United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie
Posted By Bill Frost on March 28, 2011, 3:07 PM
What's new tonight:
United States of Tara (Showtime) Season Premiere: What’s Tara’s (Toni Collette) answer to taming her stress-triggered,
multiplying multiple personalities, one of whom (redneck asshole “Buck”)
is going on mysterious overnight motorcycle rides to another town to
terrorize people at gunpoint? Going back to college to finish her
degree, of course. Even better, her psychology professor (ultimate score
guest star Eddie Izzard) doesn’t believe multiple personality
disorder—dissociative identity disorder, as she corrects him—is even a
real condition, even when he meets “Dr. Shoshana” on the first day of
class. United States of Tara is still Showtime’s most underrated series; this risky, twisty third season should change that. Tara is still, however, preceded by the overrated ...
Nurse Jackie (Showtime) Season Premiere: If anything, Nurse Jackie proves that it takes a special kind of actor to turn a lying, drug-addicted, adulterous, middle-aged narcissist into a likeable comedic character. Unfortunately, that actor is Californication’s David Duchovny, not Edie Falco. Too much critical praise is wasted on this show, but I'm willing to wait and see if the third season finally earns it.
Also new tonight:
Dancing With the Stars, Castle (ABC); Mad Love (CBS); The Event, Harry’s Law (NBC); Bethanny Ever After (Bravo); Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel); Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network); Being Human, Stargate Universe (Syfy); The Hard Times of RJ Berger (MTV); WWE Monday Night Raw (USA); Conan (TBS)
Preview: What's to come on the third season of Showtime's United States of Tara:
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