Aug 26 2018
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It’s fitting that Persephone, the goddess most known for her suffering, is finally evoked in the last episode of Shar…
Sharp Objects
Aug 19 2018
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In “Falling,” Chief Vickery wryly, wistfully, wonders why the women of Wind Gap aren’t content to be ordinary. The…
Aug 12 2018
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Sharp Objects is a dark meditation of a show, long on mood and short on forward action. These six hours have been…
Aug 5 2018
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In her seminal essay, “A Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” Leslie Jamison assesses the ways that women are…
Jul 29 2018
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The episode titles for Sharp Objects offer a kind of wry commentary about the surface and subterranean events of the…
Jul 22 2018
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Sharp Objects is saturated in menace: The ugly, acid-washed lighting that haunts seedy motel rooms, hospital…
Jul 15 2018
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“Dirt,” the second episode of Sharp Objects, is a study in contradictions. Those contradictions revolve around…
Jul 8 2018
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Toward the end of the first episode of Sharp Objects, a teenage girl tells her half-sister that, “Mama says I’m…
Jul 4 2018
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Nothing proves the summer TV landscape has shifted quite like debuting some Emmy bait in the wake of Independence…