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