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Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
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- Suicide or self-harm
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Contemplative, grave, contemporary and earnest.
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- tmdb52822426on TMDB · Jul 20188/10
Ok so I only originally watched this to see amy Adams but as it turned out the show wasn't bad it had alot of potential there was mystery and adventure I can see this show going far but my advice is don't get HBO just to watch this particular series but if you already have HBO to give it a try I did love Amy Adams as usual shes brilliant and very good here we shall see what happens with the show from here
Read the whole review on TMDB - Oldnewbieon TMDB · Aug 2018
SPOILERS (Mild) Actress Elizabeth Perkins in an IMDB interview said the director would get so involved in the atmosphere of the show that he had to be often reminded there was a plot and things had to move along! That pretty much sums up the entire problem with "Sharp Objects". The show meandered and stood in one place so many times it resembled a Still Life painting of a crumbling southern town with a crumbling old mansion and a lone car (Camille's) making it's way though a deserted street. Was it well acted? Yes. Was it beautifully shot? Yes. Was it compelling enough to be 8 hours? No. It was a pretty standard who done it with the requisite surprise at the end. And I do not mean the scenes during the credits which were so fast and MTV style edited they were pointless. Camille's discovery before the credits made it clear who the killer really was. That they had help was no surprise either. Why was no surprise, too, though it wasn't addressed it was targeted a couple eps prior: the murdered girls simply did not fit in. They were different. They weren't "good girls". Over all if a Speilberg had been controlling the direction the show would have hit all the emotional points and been
Read the whole review on TMDB - Stephen Campbellon TMDB · Sep 20195/10
**_Thematically interesting and brilliantly acted, but painfully slow and far too long_** > _Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed._ - Gillian Flynn; _Sharp Objects_ (2006) Although this eight-part HBO limited series has been advertised as a murder-mystery, really it's a character study, with the murder plot functioning primarily as an impetus to facilitate engagement with the characters surrounding it. Nothing wrong with that, of course; the first season of _True Detective_ (still one of the finest seasons of TV ever made) worked as well as it did not because of the ostensible whodunnit (when the reveal finally came, it was almost an after-thought), but because of the psychological deep-dive into its two fascinating and polar-opposite central characters. Similarly, _The Night Of_ (2016) focused almost entirely on the trio of men at its centre (accused, cop, lawyer
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Cast
- Amy AdamsCamille Preaker
- Patricia ClarksonAdora Crellin
- Chris MessinaRichard Willis
- Eliza ScanlenAmma Crellin
- Matt CravenBill Vickery
- Henry CzernyAlan Crellin
- Taylor John SmithJohn Keene
- Madison DavenportAshley Wheeler
- Miguel SandovalFrank Curry
- Sophia LillisYoung Camille Preaker
Crew
- Marti NoxonCreator
- Gillian FlynnNovel
- Yves BélangerDirector of Photography
- Alexandra StréliskiOriginal Music Composer
- David AugeProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries8 eps · 2018
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