Sharp Objects [HBO] - *Spoilers*

JP Liz V1

Chris Messina is set as the male lead opposite Amy Adams in HBO’s eight-episode drama series Sharp Objects.

Written by Marti Noxon based on the book by Gillian Flynn and directed by Jean Marc Vallée, Sharp Objects centers on reporter Camille Preaker (Adams). Fresh from a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital, Camille must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Trying to put together a psychological puzzle from her past, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too closely.

Messina will play Kansas City Detective Richard Willis, who is brought in to provide support to a small town Sheriff searching for the killer of a young girl. His investigation stalls until he meets Camille (Adams) who is covering the crime for a St. Louis paper. The lines between their professional and personal relationship are blurred as they try to solve this mystery.

Noxon, writer of the pilot, will serve as the showrunner and will write episodes along with Flynn. Executive producers are Jason Blum, Charles Layton and Jessica Rhoades, as well as Adams, Flynn, Noxon, Vallée and Nathan Ross.

http://deadline.com/2017/03/sharp-objects-chris-messina-co-star-hbo-amy-adams-series-1202046084/

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I enjoyed the book (not as much as Gone Girl or Dark Places), but I have a lot of faith in Marti Noxon, so it could be a decent adaptation.

Frank O. Pinion

When is this airing? Is there any trailer or footage available? Is this another thread about a show a year (or close to it) away?

Agent Coulson

Haven't read this one by Flynn of but the story feels familiar from that synopsis.


That is an all star cast and production team and with HBO funding it I'd have high hopes it will really good.

Unearthly

Yep putting this on my to do list due to the people and station behind it

Mr E

Frank O. Pinion wrote: »

When is this airing? Is there any trailer or footage available? Is this another thread about a show a year (or close to it) away?

Yep, but a pretty high profile one. It'll drift down the forum when there is no news, so it's not doing any harm.

Frank O. Pinion

Mr E wrote: »

Yep, but a pretty high profile one. It'll drift down the forum when there is no news, so it's not doing any harm.

Fair enough. Just wondering though, what other rules from the TV board charter don't have to be followed, or have exceptions?

Mr E

That line was added to the charter because we were being flooded with show announcements at the time (no offense, Liz!)

That seems to have tapered off somewhat.

JP Liz V1

Mr E wrote: »

That line was added to the charter because we were being flooded with show announcements at the time (no offense, Liz!)

That seems to have tapered off somewhat.

The good old days of Richard Dower, he is missed

Amy Adams cannot put a foot wrong, excellent actress, looking forward to this

The Black Oil

Based on a book by Gillian Flynn. It's a teaser here, so a bit vague, but I like that. Looks like it's right at home on HBO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgljcMqPG98

The Black Oil

Full trailer. Amy's on the trail...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asX53aeBPJE

Slydice

I kinda found it hard to shake Lois Lane outta my head watching the trailer

JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQbt5maKUPw

Looks to be starting in July

Starts July 9th on Sky Atlantic

The Black Oil

Anyone given it a go?

corkie

The Black Oil wrote: »

Anyone given it a go?

Has the first episode leaked?

Not due to air until 8 July <<< According to IMDb

The Black Oil

Thanks, sorry - completely messed up in my diary head with real life deadlines!

The Black Oil

Glanced a few positive reviews. Optimistic.

corkie

Just watched!

Slow drawn out Crap.

Don't think I will be tuning in again!

Interesting

Has a very “The sinner” vibe about it

Was a bit slow all right but has way too much going for it for me to give up.

I also love Chris Messina in anything he’s in. And of course Amy Adams

JP Liz V1

Patricia Clarkson is good as mommy dearest

Flippyfloppy

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Patricia Clarkson is good as mommy dearest

Shudder, so creepy

WoollyRedHat

Suspenseful, unnerving, cutting edge body of work, which slowly treats the viewer to treacle down, on the edge storytelling, in a small town that is full of misgivings.

den87

Very good in parts but also very overhyped.

corkie

End of episode spoiler and why was my download airbrushed of showing the below?

Damaged enough for one day, Camille heads to her room to draw a bath and pour a large glass of vodka. Next to her glass sits a razor, sharp object number 4. She takes off her robe and climbs into the tub. The camera lingers on Camille's extremities, which she drapes off the side of the tub. First her legs, then her arms, revealing the flesh-colored words sitting on her skin. We realize that the biggest vice that Camille has is self-harm. These are why the sharp objects haunt her. This is why she wears long sleeves while everyone else is covered in sweat. This is why she cringes when everyone calls her pretty and beautiful.
The final shot reveals the largest word on her arm, "VANISH."

Above taken from here. Which has a full recap of the episode for any minute details you might have missed in watching.

Cina

I enjoyed. Great production values and a stellar cast, as you'd expect from HBO.

A very slow burner, though. It definitely needs patience.

Anyone else get True Detective vibes from it?

NinetyForNone

Cina wrote: »

Anyone else get True Detective vibes from it?

Is the genre not 'Southern Gothic' as well?

Walter Bishop

First episode very good, looking forward to the rest of this.

readyletsgo

Just watched this the other night, I like it! Nice and dark, and that soundtrack, great stuff! Amy Adams is brilliant.

den87

corkie wrote: »

End of episode spoiler and why was my download airbrushed of showing the below?

Damaged enough for one day, Camille heads to her room to draw a bath and pour a large glass of vodka. Next to her glass sits a razor, sharp object number 4. She takes off her robe and climbs into the tub. The camera lingers on Camille's extremities, which she drapes off the side of the tub. First her legs, then her arms, revealing the flesh-colored words sitting on her skin. We realize that the biggest vice that Camille has is self-harm. These are why the sharp objects haunt her. This is why she wears long sleeves while everyone else is covered in sweat. This is why she cringes when everyone calls her pretty and beautiful.
The final shot reveals the largest word on her arm, "VANISH."

Above taken from here. Which has a full recap of the episode for any minute details you might have missed in watching.

Went back and watched it again, the scars are mainly on her back and spell out different words, maybe it appeared faded on the SD version? I’d imagine it becomes clearer in HD.

It says in one recap that there was a PSA with a self harm helpline after it aired in the US so maybe Atlantic toned it down??

The Black Oil

I watched it on the Sky app, quality was fine. Good sense of place and character. The discovery was rather grim.

Only thing that bothered me was there were one or two visual instances where the camera moved paused momentarily, only to move quite quickly. e.g when she got out of bed (in her apartment) and there were things on the floor.

Slydice

Watched it. Looks good.

Those flashes where it puts things from the past into the current scene and then disappears them again are cool.

Then the end

was like.. wtf.. that's a bit opposite of the character so far but maybe explains why her boss was talking to his wife? about her.

Didn’t think much of the second episode tbh...
It’s very slow

Midnight Sundance

Yousef Dead Weirdo wrote: »

Didn’t think much of the second episode tbh...
It’s very slow

I haven’t read the book and the reviews for this show all seem to be good but I’m finding it very slow also!! I’m definitely not hooked and watched first two episodes expecting it to pick up pace. Not sure I’ll be able To go past episode 3 if it doesn’t pick up pace.

Slydice

The maid! Was it the maid? Did the maid do it?

Anyway..

So again, that feeling of needing to be glued to the screen in order not to miss the fast flashes in and out of memories.

Feels like its developing the investigation pretty quickly along with her journalism story so I get the feeling we'll be taking a sidesteps in episodes to come to give us some other perspectives.

Felt kinda like they were red herring the audience with

the cop having pliers at the traffic (stop?) sign he was mending.

MargeS

Slydice wrote: »

Felt kinda like they were red herring the audience with

the cop having pliers at the traffic (stop?) sign he was mending.

I thought the same thing.
They'll probably start making everyone look suspicious.

It is slow though, but for some reason I quite like it. I just wanna slap the mother :mad:

The Black Oil

MargeS wrote: »

I just wanna slap the mother :mad:

Just a bit...

Presumably 'sharp objects' as the show's title isn't just about what Camille self-harms with, but also the unhealthy and dysfunctional way in which people bump off of each other.

Third episode in...not feeling this at all

artvanderlay

I've given up on it. It's just depressing the ****e out of me; same reason I gave up on the Handmaid's Tale. I like Amy Adams too much to watch her hacking at herself with a blade. I did read the book and do remember some of the twists, but I remember not actually liking the book that much either. Gone Girl was much better; had a good bit of black humour in it, which Sharp Objects is lacking. Plus as a huge Led Zeppelin fan, I'm getting sick of them picking the lesser Zep songs for the soundtrack. Even last night, they gave a blast of the intro from "In The Evening" and I was waiting for the main riff to kick in at the final credits...didn't happen :mad:

Slydice

Three: Oh f***, that built up! Just felt so tense at the end.

den87

Slydice wrote: »

Three: Oh f***, that built up! Just felt so tense at the end.

Three was definitely a turning point for me as I was ready to give up on it but I thought it was a great episode of tv.

Agent Coulson

It's definitely a slow build of rising tension as each episode passes.

The Black Oil

Yeah, that was very sad.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Think that's me done with this, after that pile of dung episode 4

den87

Episode 4 was very frustrating and then the last 5 mins kind of turned it on his head. Going to stick with it because next week looks really good.

Slydice

The stepfathers hand had me wondering there for most of the episode.

Then the ending threw me. I was like.. what the f***?!?

Cina

It's a tough watch, and not because it's a depressing (which it is), but because it's very slow and meanders around a lot, but it still somehow has enough there to keep me interested. Maybe because the production and acting are so good, and maybe because there is a good story hidden under there that's waiting to explode.

The last five minutes of episode four though... yikes.

Gal44

Iv it recorded from sky but not yet watched it, will i give it a go? or am i wasting 4-5 hours on it :p

Chardee MacDennis

enjoying it so far, tough watch at times. Looking forward to the conclusion.

Very much a mix of the sinner and true detective season 1

Slydice

didn't think anything would happen to the sister

the guy directing (from the piano) the players (actors) group.. on the suspect list

Hande hoche!

It seems like it's very comfortable with its pacing. Alternatively it may rush through a lot in the final few episodes. In the interest of speculation

the sister is the killer I reckon.