2 - 10 Open House

Well we haven't seen Alice in a while but she is out and ready to provoke some answers from Tara's mom. Tara and Charmaine call mom and manipulate her to come to Tara's house so that they can ask her about Mimi. Mom denies there being a Mimi but gets defensive to the extreme really quick. In the midst of all this Max is holding an open house. Tara changes into Alice in the midst of a conversation with her mom, she puts this funeral outfit on and she approaches all of them in front of prospective buyers about Mr. Hubbard and him dying there and secrets and how secrets shouldn't be kept. Tara's mom escapes the scene and goes home. Did I mention that that Marshmellow decides to go with Lionel to the local park to "cruise" for random sex from strangers. Talk about awkward. Anywho, he winds up meeting up with the neighbor dude Ted that just got ditched by his boyfriend and the guys stops blowing his stranger and manuvers Marsh out of that Lion's Den. I will never look at the park the same again. All the while Kate is in this in between with the rich guy and his desires to make her happy until he winds up in her room and realizes that he's 30 and she's 18. Reality check.

2-9 The Family Portrait

So many wheels are spinning right now. Charmaine and Nick have decided to that Neal needs to get out of the picture. Charmaine is still iffy about Neal and Nick is just been about too nice about that situation. Where are these men at?

Kate met a dude online. Thank God he wasn't a perve, turns out he is a self made rich fellow that is bored with his life and is looking for some excitement. Kate is not sure how to handle this situation. Again, I say where are these men at?

Marsh is beginning to really get into the thought of He and Lionel. Its coming to pass.

Max comes home, showers and has a spat with Tara about her neglect of late and not in that order. She later speaks with Shoshana about how to handle Max and they agree that Shoshana should get a grip on his manhood for a second so she does. However she does say these important words, "Tara is fixing to learn some things about herself and there will be plenty of dark before the light". Before 24 hours passes, Max confesses to Tara that the infamous Pammy has once again sucked and sexed herself into their lives, but who can blame her, they both sought her out, poor girl, she just can't keep them. On to next week. Can't Wait.

Explosive Diorama

I hate it when USofT does this next episode that totally strays from the previous. Weeks have passed since the CPS showed up at the house and all the personalities were unleashed.

Tara has been Tara for a couple of weeks and she and Lynda have become quite friendly with the art that they have in common. Tara has been working on art for a show at Lynda's day in and out.

Kate is so green mad that she decides to do the Princess Valhalla website for money and she starts pimpin herself out for the wishlist.

Marsh and Lionel are seeming to spend a lot of time together.

Charmaine tells Nick about the baby being Neils with one of the lamest excuses I have ever heard yet Nick appears to be ok with it.

Max is going crazy inside, Tara is in her own world ignoring him completely and he is sick of being last yet always coming thru when she needs him. Guess he goes running to, yep you got it Infamous Pammy.

2-7 Dept. of F****D Up Family Services

Well after last weeks Torando, LOL, I suspected that Tara and Charmaine would be going at it but I guess DFS crippled that emotion. Something is definetly going on with Mr. Hubbard and that house. Did you see that painting she painted of him? We decided that Mr. Hubbard would have to have been 17/18 when Tara and Charmaine were 3/4 and maybe his mother watched them as children and he did something uncool to them that caused all of this splitting to happen. Charmaine does have a fear of his basement, maybe she is repressed where Tara is split wide open. The good Doctor is determined to let them all out and make it happen.

Whats with Tara and her fixation with Lynda P. Frazier. I know its art related but they keep giving this lesbovibe about Lynda. One more thing for Kate to hate Tara for.

What up Marha, he let everybody have it. It was awesome, and I love that it brought out Gimme at the worst time ever. Good Ol Charmaine, stepping right in, I think she has the secret hots for Max anyway. It goes nicely with her marrying Nick but having Neals baby scenario dontcha think

2-6 Torando

A tornado warning comes to life and the whole Gregson family plus the gay neighbors get in the Hubbard basement to weather it out. Charmaine finds trouble with basements and gets a bit freaky about it but comes down regardless only to ball up on the stairs. When in the circle of folks, Tara rapidly starts taking on all of her alters except T and then completely reverts to Dr. Shoshana. So the whole family gets to meet the new alter and the neighbors get a taste of life at the Gregsons. They are freaked out by Shoshana because they recommended the book so it is freaking them out to see a reinactment of the good doctor. They pass the time by chit chatting all the while Charmaine is still on the stairs, Dr. Shoshana goes to get her and she freaks out. Shoshana outs her about the baby beind Neils, tells her she shouldn't be keeping secrets and then says something about setting free the pact they had made as children but goes no further. The whole thing left me wondering if Charmaine isn't also harboring something that happened to them as children. I am sure we will see this in good time.

2-5 Doin Time

Kates video of Princess Valhalla gets 200,000 hits. Marshy is trying to decide how to let Courtney down because he doesn't want to date or have sex with her anymore now that he has found he is truly gay. Max confronts Dr. Shoshana (which is funny) and after a few heated words he says her is going to commit Tara again. The police show up to charge Max with assult, Tara emerges and gets in the bug to go bail him out but when she does, Dr. Shoshana is in the passenger seat talking to her and she freaks and hits a stop sign. They both get out of the car and discuss why this happens and you can see that it is therapy but within her own head. To her it is the best because things are coming out she has never experienced. She keeps having this re-occuring image of her Charmaine as little girls (3-4) in a persons house named Mimi. Charmaine finds out she is pregnant and that the baby isn't Nick's it is Neils. Neil got to the jail before Tara so an angry Max leaves with Neil and they go have drinks, when he comes home he and Tara argue and she tries to explain that even though Shoshana isn't real she is helping Tara sort thru and bring back memories that had never been there before. Tara gets up in the middle of the night, Max follows her and Dr. Shoshana is in her office where Max decides to talk with her. What he doesn't know is that Shoshana and Tara coexist and Tara can hear all of what takes place when Shoshana is at the reigns.

2-4 You Becoming You

Max demands that Tara get some help again, Kansas has little to offer her type disorder but she agrees. They have make-up sex in the yard but you can tell that Max isn't the same Max we all know and love. He has done soo much for Tara and been so enduring of all the situations the alters put all of them in but I think this just sent him over the edge. Tara goes to visit the neighbors they met in the first of Season 2 and one of them offers her a book that his therapist wrote. He highly recommends her work and since Tara can't find anyone in Kansas that she feels can help her she sits in the Hubbard house and starts to read it. The book changes her life literally. Marshall comes out of the closet to Max after having a sexual encounter with Courtney. Kate has been visiting Lynda P Frazier and likes her a lot. Lynda, dressed her up as Princess Valhalla Hawkin and they both got stoned and came up with the idea to make a movie. Kate gets stranded and has to call Max to get her so her beind in downtown Kansas, in the ghetto, not at work and with this older lady while being dressed like a princess happens and Max is furious but its just adding fuel to an already angry situation. At the end of the day, Tara tells Max that she called this Dr. Shoshana in NY and asked if she could help and Shoshana agreed to do it by phone sessions, turns out that Tara created a new alter, a therapist and guess what her names is. Dr. Shoshana

2-3 The Truth Hurts

Tara is still hiding Buck from Max and the family. Its becoming harder because Buck wants more time to see Penny. Tara has discovered herself with Penny twice now and decides to go see Penny dressed as Buck. She wants to see if she herself is a lesbian. She and Penny chitchat for a moment but when Penny gets fresh, Tara is wigged out. She gets up and tells Penny the truth about Buck and apologizes. Penny gets upset and Tara is saddened that she caused it so she hugs her, tells her she is sorry and then leaves. Little does she know Penny follows her home. Tara and the Family go ice skating where Penny decides to hit the DJ up for the microphone so that she can profess her love for Buck and Tara. The whole family is mortified and Max is angry, in 17 years Tara has never lied about the alters and now not only has she like she has cheated as well. He leaves the rink, goes directly to the sub-contractor that is screwing him over and he proceeds to beat the man senseless.

2-2 Trouble Junction

Tara realizes Buck has emerged but is soo ashamed because things have been going so well with Max that she hides it. She records what she knows in her cell phone. Charmaine asks Tara if she can "revirginize" for a stint at Tara's house so that she can prepare for her wedding with Nick. Max decides to take on the project of flippin the Hubbard house. Tara has strange feelings in that house, it makes her uncomfortable. It is leading somewhere but she doesn't know why. Kate decides to pursue one of the debt clients by visiting her home after looking her up on the web. Lynda P Frazier isn't at all what Kate expected. She is a older black artsy type. She talks to Kate for a while and then cuts her a check for $5000. Marshall meets Courtney in his Gay group, she is an advocate but isn't gay. She and him become friendly. I am not sure where that is going.

2-1 Yes

After a seasons wait my show is finally back. It went out with such a bang I just had no idea what to expect and it was a strange beginning for me but took up like a rocket.

It starts of with Tara being DID free and back on a series of meds for 3 months since the meeting with Trip. Tara's neighbor, Mr. Hubbard, commits suicide and his family ask Max & Tara to take responsibility of his car and home until they can get the items sold. The house is retro, straight out of the 70's, everything is burnt orange and wood paneling. Nick asks Charmaine to marry him. Marshall decides to join the gay's at the gayble after they let him know they are aware that he is gay even if he isn't sure. Kate cracks me up applying for this job that she thinks is secret service type stuff and turns out to be a debt collection agency. She takes the job. Max gets flirty with a bartender while he and Tara are out for drinks, when Tara goes to bed, Buck emerges, goes back to the bar and hits on the same bartender. Whats up with that, right.

12 Miracle

Marshall's Xanax use continues. He learns that Jason is going out with a girl and realizes that Kate was right about everything. He visits the hospital and apologizes to his mother.

Kate's sexual harassment claim falls flat. But later, she unexpectedly finds Gene at her house. He's been fired from his job and professes his intense love, and says that they should run away together. Kate slips out the back door and flees in her mom's car.

Tara and Max agree to meet Tripp Johannesen, the man responsible for Tara's trauma, at the clinic under the supervision of Dr. Holden. Tripp and his wife arrive, and he says all that he can remember about that night. When he gets up to leave, he says "See you later, T." Everyone realizes that Tara had her alter-egos, or at least T, before the sexual assault, and something else earlier in her life did it. Tara's DID then goes crazy, as she quickly and wildly transitions between all her personalities. When it is over, Tara says she wants to go home. The Gregsons try to eat dinner together at home like a normal family but it feels uncomfortable and they go to the bowling alley instead. The season ends with Max, Tara, Buck, Alice, T, and Gimme watching Marshall and Kate bowl.

11 Snow

Tara checks into a facility that specializes in dissociation, where she meets Dr. Holden, who pushes for her to recover lost memories. Max tries to take advantage of the support groups for significant others but is reluctant. Jason tells Marshall that their friendship is over. Kate mounts a claim against Gene at Barnabeez.

10 Betrayel

Dr. Ocean "breaks up" with Tara, leading to Gimme's first daylight appearance at Charmaine's day spa, followed by T. Kate finds difficulty dealing with her boss at work, who seems a little too obsessed with her. Jason admits he enjoyed his time with Marshall, but he later kisses the alter "T" when she seduces him in the shed. The devastated Marshall has an angry outburst at Tara, and he later burns down the shed in revenge.

9 Possiblity

Kate loses interest in her boss. Needing a break, she and Tara head out to a nearby resort. Max uses this time away from Tara to search for answers about her past. Tara and Kate have a good time at first, even going incognito. But later, Tara catches Kate kissing an older man they met earlier. They have an argument where Kate points out how she was all over a guy at the arcade (see episode 5). Tara says that that was not her, it was T. Then Kate says that all Tara's identities are the same person. This pushes her to transform into T. T heads to a tattoo parlor to get the word 'slut' on her obliques. Kate comes and gets Tara to come back before the needle goes in. Tara and Kate end up getting matching Chinese characters in the same spot. Meanwhile, Marshall invites Jason to the house, where they kiss.

8 Abundance

Alice re-emerges and Max decides to embrace his time with her, even though he misses his wife. Alice believes she is pregnant, and is later distraught when she thinks she has miscarried, but Max reassures her it is just Tara's period. Despite Marshall's concerns that Jason's father knows about his crush on Jason, the boys grow closer

7 Alterations

Charmaine has corrective surgery on her breasts and is surprised to awaken to Buck at her bedside rather than Tara. Despite this, the two begin to bond

6 Transition

Tara and Charmaine's parents pay a visit in order to celebrate the latter's birthday. However, they have a secret plan to get Kate and Marshall to live with them for a while, which Max rejects. He is determined to prevent Tara from slipping away this evening. The mood at the party is somewhat sullen, with Charmaine acting brattish. Kate leaves and goes to her boss's (Gene) apartment, where she begins a relationship with him. Tara's parents come out with the idea of taking the kids. Max, Tara, and Marshall are appalled. All the fuss pushes Charmaine to lose it, claiming that everyone has always paid more attention to Tara than her; then she flashes her lopsided boobs to everyone in the room. Although Tara seems to be fine right after the incident, Max wakes up in the middle of the night to find her urinating on her father.

5 Revolution

Tara, as her teenage alter T, steals her own car and Max and Charmaine must chase after her, leaving Marshall home alone. He decides to throw a party to win the love of his classmate Jason, on whom he has a crush.

4 Inspiration

Tara's stress levels are starting to come down as she gets to work on a mural for her friend Tiffany. Tiffany begins to probe Tara about her identities, making Tara uncomfortable. When Tara arrives the next morning to work on the mural, it has been vandalized with profanities about Tiffany, but it is unclear who did it.

3 Work

Charmaine (Rosemarie DeWitt) recommends Tara to her friend for a mural project. In order to become closer to Max again Tara plans a sex night but when Buck makes an unexpected reappearance, things get complicated.

2 Aftermath

The episode opens to Tara on camera again explaining her annoyed feelings about the alters. The family has a meeting about what happened in the previous episode while she wasn't herself. She isn't used to the alters because she had just gotten off her medicine that kept them away. While doing the laundry, she finds Marshall's sheets smell like urine. When confronting him, Marshall shares a problem with his English teacher. He thinks on a higher level about a novel and sees an erotic meaning to it, which upsets the teacher. Their conversation is interrupted by Kate yelling profanities. Marshall wants only his dad to go talk to his teacher, which makes Tara feel rejected by her family. While shopping with Charmaine, they run into parents from the kids' school. They say they never expected her to contribute to the bake sale due to her DID, which upsets Tara and makes her transition into Alice. Alice shows up to the meeting with Marshall's teacher and successfully changes his mind by ridiculing how he was treated in high school. Out to dinner at the fictional restaurant Barnabeez, Alice upsets Kate by not being Tara. Kate purposefully upsets Alice in the bathroom where she washes her mouth out with soap. The commotion is overheard by Max, who comforts Alice. Kate, upset and needing a break from home, applies for a job at Barnabeez. Max later talks to Kate at home and shows a photo album Alice made for her, which makes her Kate better, but sad about her mom's DID. The episode ends with Alice trying to get intimate with Max, with the idea of a baby in mind. She thinks the IUD Tara has won't work since she doesn't believe in them. Max refuses, and they both go to sleep.

Pilot

Well I am a "Weeds" fan, nothing like the Botwin dilemmas to keep you guessing right. Its only natural that when Showtime came out with Tara that I would be hooked immediately.


The Pilot is my favorite. The scene where Buck whoops the boyfriend and Marshy gets his kick in on it too it awesome. They may be disfunctional but they protect each other.
The episode starts with a frantic Tara (Toni Collette) explaining to a camera that she is under stress due to her job and discovering her teenage daughter's morning after pill prescription. After, she takes off all her clothes walking down the hall. Kate (Brie Larson) comes home to find her mother in her room as T, high on marijuana looking through Kate's clothes. Kate is friends with her and says “I love you the best out of all the alters”. Max (John Corbett) comes home, not surprised to find his wife as T, and neither is their son, Marshall (Keir Gilchrist). Kate has a role in the dance recital due to the original girl being in the hospital for an eating disorder. Charmaine comes over, annoyed that plans with her sister are broken since T has taken over. In the garage with Max, Charmaine expresses that she doesn't feel her Dissociative identity disorder is legitimate. Later that night, T and Max talk on the sofa where they share a brief moment of lust. Max stops it and makes T go to the shed, where she calms down and change back. Marshall turns on some loud music so the neighbors won't hear T have a temper tantrum in the shed. Kate meets up with her gothic boyfriend and explains her mom's condition to him, where he shows no sympathy. Tara drives by Kate's school and catches her boyfriend pushing her around, where he shares he knows about her condition. Kate doesn't welcome Tara's help, due to embarrassment, so she transitions into Buck from the stress. When Marshall and Max find Buck, they are intimidated, but convince him to go to Kate's recital. After the show, Buck hits on Kate's friends and gets in a fight with her boyfriend for what Tara saw earlier. Marshall discovers why Buck is beating him up and joins. The episode ends with the family bowling, pointing out Buck is the only left handed alter.