A friend and I attended a free screening at a local theater of a new TV show scheduled to debut on Showtime. The TV show United States of Tara is a one-of-a-kind dramedy about the life of Tara, a suburban mom with split personalities. The episodes shown highlighted three of the personalities: Buck, a cigarette-smoking, beer-swilling roughneck; Alice who acts like a 1950s TV show mom, and T, a wild teenager with a penchant for butt-baring jeans with thong visible. Tara changes clothes each time one of the personalities also known as "alters" take over. The pilot and the 2nd episode were amusing and odd at the same time. After the screening, I found out Diablo Cody (of Juno fame) created the series with Steven Spielberg as the executive producer. While I found Tara's son, Marshall, to be a tad unbelievable, I thought Toni Collette did a superior job of portraying Tara and her "alters". Rounding out the family is John Corbett as Tara's husband and Brie Larson as her daughter. One of the perks of the screening was free popcorn and choice of beverage,which included soft drinks as well as beer and wine.