The pre-titles opening is so spooky, but also quite telling: Camille looks into the dollhouse and sees something moving there’s something out of place, something scary, inside her house. (That there are still other questions to be answered helps, too, such as what Alan’s role was in all this.)Īs tempting as it is to start the hype for next week, let’s take a second to admire the specific artistry that got us to such an exciting precipice. Moreover, because the series is more focused on following Camille through to the end than unveiling its killer, the fact that the show pretty much solves the mystery with an episode left to air isn’t a deterrent everyone should be invested in Camille (not to mention poor, suffering Amma) enough to eagerly anticipate her ultimate showdown with Adora. Instead, the culmination proves emotionally resonant and makes for one juicy twist. A revelation of this magnitude - tying together the series’ murder-mystery and Camille’s personal odyssey, which were thought to be largely separate up until now - could’ve gone off the rails it could’ve been such a whopper, viewers would roll their eyes instead of gasping in horror. Gillian Flynn, Marti Noxon, and Jean-Marc Vallee share the motive and suspect first, when Richard meets with Marion’s former nurse, then they allow Aunt Jackie to speak on behalf of the family - and break the harsh truth to Camille. “Sharp Objects” takes as much time as it can spacing out the key evidence and the confirmation.
The killer, the motive, Camille’s personal connection to both: All that information doesn’t come crashing down at once. And more than plot, there are thematic implications as well enough to spend the next seven days and beyond unpacking each one. So much happens in the penultimate hour, and it happens fast, but the audience is with Camille every step of the way because of how beautifully structured “Sharp Objects” has been. Yet setting aside what state Camille will be left in at series’ end, those watching at home should’ve responded pretty well, too, and that’s credit to a season’s worth of savvy buildup. That’s a lot to take in, and given how much Camille already went through this episode - a painful connection with another grieving sibling, sex with her clothes off (scars exposed), and some harsh words from her closest ally, Richard (Chris Messina) - she handles the news pretty well. After a meeting with her Aunt Jackie (Elizabeth Perkins), Camille (Amy Adams) caught up with the viewers watching at home and realized what her mother, Adora (Patricia Clarkson), had done: She poisoned and killed her long-dead sister, Marion she’s poisoning and killing her rebellious half-sister, Amma (Eliza Scanlen) and she may have poisoned and killed the other little girls in Wind Gap. Four simple words have rarely been so powerful and meant so much.
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