'Sharp Objects’ with Amy Adams [HBO]

[squeekness]

I was going to read it again, but after the show was done. I knew who the bad guy was, just not how it was found out.

 

[harlequinade]

Someone on reddit pointed it out to me and I just played the episode on my TV to check - in the last frame, the painting on the right - there is a girl in white there and she waves her hand

 

[Deck Rickard]

That's why the change from the book is weird as hell, in the novel the way it goes is that SHE finds out about MBP from the nurse and then tells Richard who tells her he was already suspecting Adora because of the Capisi kid seeing the Woman in White etc.

Yeah, that would make more sense. Weird.

 

[kvz5]

Someone on reddit pointed it out to me and I just played the episode on my TV to check - in the last frame, the painting on the right - there is a girl in white there and she waves her hand

I saw that! Totally freaked me out.

 

[harlequinade]

The attention to detail is INSANE

When Vickery is in the car the song that plays has 'cheating' in its lyrics, only adding to theory he is lovers with Adora. Not to mention the lyrics in the ending song

 

[harlequinade]

"Word to the wise for Sharp Objects fans: watch the finale all the way through the end credits. All the way."

https://***********/sepinwall/status/1032424336962015237

 

[NotNickFury]

Well, definitely need to not just rewatch these episodes, but now want to read the book as well.

So it was her all along?

 

[flickchick85]

Wait, what?! In those flashes during the end credits, it showed someone helping her kill one of the girls? I'm so confused, lol.

 

[Frankeh]

That finale was so nauseatingly good, if that makes sense. Lol. Excellent show.

 

[squeekness]

That. Wow. That was really something.

 

[kvz5]

I kinda wish I didn’t read the book because that ending would’ve been so mind blowing. Still, I liked the abruptness of it and then those two mid credits scene. Wow.

Wait, what?! In those flashes during the end credits, it showed someone helping her kill one of the girls? I'm so confused, lol.

Her rollerblade friends.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Damn it. I turned it off once the credits started rolling. You would think I would know better by now after watching 20 Marvel movies! lol

 

[Deck Rickard]

Okay, just watch the credits. Damn, those are some evil rollergirls.

I still wonder if Alan had some bigger part in all of this. I'm positive he knew what Adora was doing and I wonder if he helped Amma cover up evidence too. Maybe not, but he just seems way to complicit and casual about everything.

 

[squeekness]

He had to know, at one point he told Adora to take it easy with the meds.

 

[harlequinade]

Finally saw it. Vallee did the unthinkable - he made the twist in the adaptation hit as hard as in the book

The ONE thing that bothers me is the shift of focus from Camille and her journey to Amma in this final moment. The book ends with hope, the show ends with horror

 

[Poppy]

I kinda wish I didn’t read the book because that ending would’ve been so mind blowing. Still, I liked the abruptness of it and then those two mid credits scene. Wow.



Her rollerblade friends.

Right after watching the pilot I bought the book and decided to wait until the show was done, cause the pilot blew me away. I'm so happy I waited because while I had doubts about Amma, the 'happy ending' happening a little bit too soon in the episode (there was like 10 mins left?), I still was hella shocked when we saw the flashbacks. The way they ended the show, i'm amazed. It's definitely one of my favorite show.

I'm sure rewatching it is going to be a treat. Noticing all the clues. People on tumblr already have started:

 

[flickchick85]

Her rollerblade friends.

Huh. Are we just supposed to infer a motive there that I missed (like, I totally get Amma's), or are we just to assume they're a bunch of psychos? I honestly didn't pay much attention to them as characters so I figure there's likely something about them and their relationships to the girls that I missed.

 

[harlequinade]

They idolized Amma and they did what she wanted. One of the girls, the one she always tells to shut up, was always crying in the books and showing remorse. She was planning on killing her next

 

[flickchick85]

They idolized Amma and they did what she wanted. One of the girls, the one she always tells to shut up, was always crying in the books and showing remorse. She was planning on killing her next

Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

 

[harlequinade]

Right after watching the pilot I bought the book and decided to wait until the show was done, cause the pilot blew me away. I'm so happy I waited because while I had doubts about Amma, the 'happy ending' happening a little bit too soon in the episode (there was like 10 mins left?), I still was hella shocked when we saw the flashbacks. The way they ended the show, i'm amazed. It's definitely one of my favorite show.

I'm sure rewatching it is going to be a treat. Noticing all the clues. People on

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tumblr already have started:

When she is teaching Mae how to skate she pretends to hang herself on clothesline....like the one she strangled the girls with

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Well, definitely need to not just rewatch these episodes, but now want to read the book as well.

So it was her all along?

Scanlen's eerily palpable countenance, something I first noticed in Harle's Persephone avatar, got me to thinking about how Amma was portrayed as something of a chameleon from the get-go. The way she alternated from a devil-may-care party girl to a refined "old money" princess on a whim was almost schiz-like. From that point on, it was almost hard not to see.

 

[flickchick85]

I definitely need to re-watch. It'll be like watching a whole new show, lol.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Huh. Are we just supposed to infer a motive there that I missed (like, I totally get Amma's), or are we just to assume they're a bunch of psychos? I honestly didn't pay much attention to them as characters so I figure there's likely something about them and their relationships to the girls that I missed.

Remember when one of the friends tells Camille that she needn't worry about them, as the killer only targets misfits/outsiders? In hindsight, we now know that they were essentially revealing their own shared M.O. ha ha

Also, when Camille sees markings on the final victim-to-be's arm, that's the show's way of reminding the audience that she's next.

 

[flickchick85]

Remember when one of the friends tells Camille that she needn't worry about them, as the killer only targets misfits/outsiders? In hindsight, we now know that they were essentially revealing their own shared M.O. ha ha

Also, when Camille sees markings on the final victim-to-be's arm, that's the show's way of reminding the audience that she's next.

Oh damn.

 

[kvz5]

Right after watching the pilot I bought the book and decided to wait until the show was done, cause the pilot blew me away. I'm so happy I waited because while I had doubts about Amma, the 'happy ending' happening a little bit too soon in the episode (there was like 10 mins left?), I still was hella shocked when we saw the flashbacks. The way they ended the show, i'm amazed. It's definitely one of my favorite show.

I'm sure rewatching it is going to be a treat. Noticing all the clues. People on tumblr already have started:

If I could do it again, I would've preferred seeing the show first and then reading the book. Also I think, using harlequinade's comparisons, I would've liked having a horrific ending first and then the happier ending being my last memory of it.

I still get chills when I remember the first mid-credits scene. It could easily have come from a great horror flick with the quick brutal shots and Amma's psychotic look of glee.