I was afraid of Jean-Marc Valle because I was a huge fan, and he has a very different style of working. 'Sharp Objects' is the story of Camille Preaker, played with great pathos by Amy Adams, a St. Louis based journalist with a troubled childhood who returns to her hometown to cover the disappearance and murder of two little girls. And some people try to live in a world that it maybe doesnt have a second story. But while Camille is obsessed with her rock playlist -- and carries that cracked iPod with her everywhere -- there's no mention of her musical preferences in the book. When Sharp Objects begins, Camille Preaker (Adams) is living in St. Louis, Missouri, working as a journalist and avoiding her past as much as possible. I wonder if the interaction would've been the same if they'd been alone. The characters in "Sharp Objects" are all hiding secrets, some deeper than others. But in the final few pages of the novel, it's revealed Amma had some help from her friends in kidnapping Natalie and Ann, while she was the one to ultimately strangle them to death and pry out their little teeth. I mean, part of the fun of taking this from the book to the screen is that that Amma character portrayed by Eliza is so complicated. "He feels like a very classically female character in that way. If you still have questions about the final moments of Sharp Objects after its eight-episode run in 2018, look no further. By cutting things off just after Camille sees the teeth in Ammas dollhouse floor, the show doesnt let us see that Curry then takes Camille into his home, where she says she is learning to be cared for. Its impossible to discern if she is learning to be just like Marian and Amma, or if shes simply letting her guard down. And book spoilers here but, in Flynns source material, this is the same endingAmma killed Ann and Natalie with the help of her friends. And there was so much more that I wanted to know about the other part. It's going to be terrible and I need to see it immediately. Camille remains as convinced of her bodys ability to repel as she was before. The HBO limited series cuts off dramatically as Camille is realizing that Amma is the one who killed Ann Nash and Natalie Keene, when she discovers the mosaic of of jagged, broken teeth in her dollhouse. The two dont share a teary but languorous ride to Adoras prison cell, where they hug and share sisterly glances. It was like The Karate Kid meets Billy Elliotwithout the karate and without the talent. At the end of the first episode, viewers realize that along with her alcoholism and obvious post-traumatic stress disorder, Camille has a much more visible problem. "And it felt emotionally like, this story is about the legacy of violence among these women and that it really started with Adora," she continued, adding that Amma's words --don't tell mama -- bring it all back to Adora. Id be like 'OK, you did!'" She drives to the Keene house and rings the doorbellNatalie's mother answers the door and lets Camille in as soon as Camille says she wants to talk about Natalie. Noxon said that the show's soundtrack is all thanks to director Jean-Marc Vall. Moreover, Adoras poisoning goes way back, and got out of hand with Marian (Lulu Wilson), which led to her death. Emily is the entertainment editor at Cosmopolitan, which is a nice way of saying she watches way too much TV and constantly wants to tell you about it. But still, as the finale moved forward in time and followed Camille and Amma moving to St. Louis together, something didnt feel quite right. HBOs excellent miniseries adaptation of Gillian Flynns Sharp Objects has at last come to an end, but not without one last surprise. While looking through Amma's dollhouse, which she brought to St. Louis, Camille finds pristine white teeth. Instead, Amma is wildly needy and afire with anxiety. She cultivates an obsession with female serial killers, which her therapist attributes to Amma trying to find a way to forgive her mother. She slaps Camille for buying the wrong color upholstery for her dollhouse. Marti Noxon: My recollection is that and I dont have the book in front of me but those few pages, they are very short, that little coda of that part. While a smaller detail, in the book, Camille lives in Chicago, not St. Louis. August 26, 2018. He doesnt rehearse and theres no marks on the ground. Though Adora's husband, Alan (Henry Czerny), tells Richard that Camille isn't home, the detective returns before long with Curry to rescue Camille, knowing she's in trouble. But Amma chased her down, then strangled her with a clothesline while the other girls held her down. As she sets out to investigate, even going to the Nash household to speak to Bob, Camille finds herself coming up against an unlikely adversary her mom, Adora, who shows up at the Nash house shortly after Camille arrives to chastise her daughter for bothering a grieving father. Unless we're counting those violent flashes in the finale's post-credits scenes, viewers don't find out how Amma took those young girls' lives. In the bathroom, she explains, I stripped off my shirt and dug it deep into the perfect circle on my back. I meanhe realizes Camille is damaged due to Adora's abuse of her children. 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It's easy to look at Camille's stepfather, Alan, (played byHenry Czerny on the show) and see a "beaten spouse," as Noxon described him in a recent interview with TheWrap. But Marian didn't live to see adulthood. How did you decide how much time to devote to the part of the finale where Camille is being nursed by Adora and the part after that, where Amma and Camille seem to be safe? I think you pull it, Joshua Jackson says to Lizzy Caplan sensually. I love that about the character, because hes flawed. Camille, having briefly escaped her mother's clutches, goes out to search for John Keene, who's the subject of a police manhunt. she said, adding that he has a reputation for "exquisite" musical tastes. Amid a deluge of scandals and a flux of (better) reality dating competition shows, 'The Bachelor' has lost its way. But no, I think everybody works really hard. Noxon told TheWrap that the decision to end the show's story there was because she and the writers wanted to "convey the emotional experience of reading the book and, to me, the book ended there.". When Camille first arrives in Wind Gap, one young girl, 13-year-old Ann Nash, is confirmed dead, while 14-year-old Natalie Keene has been missing for days. She felt powerless, needed control -- and also inherited some pretty fucked up ideas about hurting people as a way to care for them from her mother. "BAD" and "A DRUNK" are carved into Camille's table. I think he made me a better actor. Late one afternoon, Camille decides to try approaching the Keenes for more information about Natalie.She needs a quote for her feature, badlyif she doesn't turn up anything good, Curry will pull her out of Wind Gap. Their last scene with one another was touching and so much was said outside of their dialogue, and I think there was a genuine affection there, and I liked them as a pair. Yeah, in the book, Lily Burke -- a friend Amma makes when she moves to the city with Camille -- falls victim to the young sociopath's murderous streak as well before all is said and done. "He doesnt fit in, they dont want him there. Camille, having briefly escaped her mother's clutches, goes out to search for John Keene, who's the subject of a police manhunt. Adora couldnt possibly have pulled those teeth out herself, and while she certainly milked the grief over Ann and Natalie for all it was worth, straight-up murderand especially displaying the bodiesdidnt seem like Adoras style. Covering Rammsteins Du Hast in Berlin. I agree. In the letter John says he'd suspected Amma all along. That scene got to me pretty powerfully. Yes! Sharp Objects airs Sundays at 9 P.M. EST on HBO. It's never explained. John is unmoved, warning her, "It'll be your turn some day.". Luckily for the insatiably curious, the original source material offers very clear-cut answers to everything that jaw-dropping finale left out. Id rather hear you talk about it and for me to say, Im here to listen and to learn.". Instead, in the final moments of the episode Milk we learn Camilles (Amy Adams) living little sister, Amma (Eliza Scanlen) who she has taken away to raise in safety is actually the one responsible for the grisly murders of the two young girls from their small hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri. But Camille gets Amma's reasoning directly from the horse's mouth when she visits her in prison in the book. He is seeing her and her sister, in the hospital, both poisoned by their psychopathic mother. Amma is also there, clad in a white dress and flower crown of Adora's choosing, but she's clearly ill from Adora's medicine, causing further alarm. Changing it would be sort of mystifying.. I think they probably said that because at that moment I was going from job to job to job. But they're much more disturbing than anyone dared to imagine. So the legends are true. In the novel, Amma is only 13 years old, though the actress who plays her, Eliza Scanlen, is 19 in real life. Clearly, returning to Wind Gap is an enormous struggle for Camille, and she doesn't handle the situation in a particularly healthy way, drinking to keep herself afloat. 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We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Well, there you have it: Adora dunit, but Amma also dunit. We were all in agreement that we wanted it to be faithful to the book, she explained in a Vulture interview.

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