Sharp Objects: Season 1

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: July 8, 2018

Summary: St. Louis crime reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) returns to her small Missouri hometown for a story about a murder of a young girl and the disappearance of another only to experience reminders of her past in this eight-part drama based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.

Creator: Marti Noxon

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E8. Milk
Air Date: August 26, 2018
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S1:E7. Falling
Air Date: August 19, 2018
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S1:E6. Cherry
Air Date: August 12, 2018

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Richard Roeper

Dec 14, 2018

Graced with some of the best performances Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson have ever given, directed with sure-handed and sometimes flamboyant style by Jean-Marc Vallee and dripping with honey-coated but often barbed dialogue, “Sharp Objects” is flat-out great television. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Jun 19, 2018

On TV, Sharp Objects can't precisely capture Flynn's prose and the internalized descent into disorientation taken page-by-page, but series director Jean-Marc Vallee finds his own visual language that, driven by a ferociously wounded performance by Amy Adams, makes this eight-hour limited series haunting and riveting--both prestige and pulp. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

Jul 9, 2018

Adams, with the support of executive producers Flynn, Noxon and Vallée and an extraordinary team of co-stars, makes Sharp Objects use Camille to weave a palpably dark parable about history’s impact, and how failing to confront its lasting damage traps us. Grim as this assessment may be, this also makes the drama one of the better offerings on TV right now--not a feel-good summertime story by any means, but one deserving of attention and worth seeing through to the finish. Read full review

Kristi Turnquist

Jul 5, 2018

Sharp Objects may not be compulsively watchable, but it’s much better than the “Gone Girl” movie, with its own sweaty, sensual, mesmerizing atmosphere. Read full review

Matt Conner

Jul 11, 2018

The layered darkness that inhabits Flynn's work is the primary hurdle here, and fans looking for a captivating mystery with Gone Girl's twists and turns will be disappointed. Fortunately, for those willing to soak in the experience, director Jean-Marc Vallée (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) allows for the slow burn required to inhabit Flynn's deeply personal corners. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Jul 6, 2018

Solving the crime is almost incidental to the lingering puzzle of Camille's clouded past. With prickly vulnerability, Adams brings poignant dimension to Flynn's pulp melodrama. [9 - 22 Jul 2018, p.12]

Glenn Garvin

Jul 12, 2018

In the #MeToo era, HBO's Sharp Objects will inevitably be proclaimed a work of eloquent female empowerment. It isn't. It's slow, confusing, over-gothed and under-articulated. There's a good story squeaking from underneath all the messy baggage it carries, but it's probably easier to just go to Kmart for another suitcase rather than unpack this thing. Read full review

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Ciprian1997

Jul 9, 2018

Promising story! The atmosphere is great and i love the relation between characters. Pretty good so far, I'll wait to see where is going this series.

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vgmkyle

Aug 27, 2018

I went into watching this show with the expectation that it would continue on HBO. Wasn't sure about it at first, but it ended up being a great mini-series with very disturbing characters. The show develops quickly over 8 episodes but I liked the pace and delivery.

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JDDallas1

Aug 28, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. PISSED! WTF did you have the TRUE STORY buried AFTER the EFFIN credits!!! YOU ARE NOT MARVEL! DON'T DISRESPECT YOUR FANS WHO'VE INVESTED 8 (SLOW) HOURS IN YOUR SHOW..GIVE THEM THE TWIST AT THE END AND THEN IMMEDIATELY ROLL CREDITS!!! I turned it off thinkin that was TRULY "The End" only to be told NO! there was more! AM I alone here?

Other than that..Good show..kinda slow..but good..hard to follow..casting was totally wrong. Just how the F old was Adora..and how could she have such a young child..woman looked like she was 70. Also -even though beautiful-Amy Adams trying to acting like she was late 20s when she's 43. I kept thinking somehow we were gonna find out this was all a flashback. Altho casting Samantha Lillis (girl from IT) as young Amy Adams..jeez..she could be her daughter..good job there. Also, Amy Adams sleeping with 18 yr old..Jeez try this today if you're man..the "Me Too" Army was rise up in a heartbeat..any sympathy you may have had if the "hero" were a man and done this would have immediately evaporated.… Expand

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WhiskeyStories

Nov 27, 2018

The cast is great all around, it has a wonderful production, beautiful cinematography and themes that are rarely explored, but it's sooo unnecessarily SLOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW. Shapr Objects would have been a pretty great 2-3 parter, but 8 one hour long episodes is just crazy.

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OlivierPiel

Jul 13, 2018

Very disappointing. It's terribly lazy, cliché and pretentious as if slow pace was the mark of cinematographic art (désolé Monsieur Vallée, tu n'es pas Tarkovsky!)
It's an obvious and contemptible attempt at riding the bandwagon of #MeToo, female empowerment
and whatever nonsense has takenVery disappointing. It's terribly lazy, cliché and pretentious as if slow pace was the mark of cinematographic art (désolé Monsieur Vallée, tu n'es pas Tarkovsky!)
It's an obvious and contemptible attempt at riding the bandwagon of #MeToo, female empowerment
and whatever nonsense has taken hold of Hollywood for it knows it can't be attacked by so-called media critics lest they want to be stoned to death by feminists.
Mind you he's done it before with the vastly overrated Dallas Buyers Club and Little Big lies. Hypocrisy of the highest order. Tartuffe would be proud. As a fellow Frenchman I'm ashamed.… Expand

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geralt1

Sep 3, 2018

How do you carve neatly on your back where it would be difficult to reach and would require a mirror.
Most if not all cutters have been sexually abused yet this topic was not addressed.
People with Munchhausen derive satisfaction from the pity of others so what possible benefit is gainedHow do you carve neatly on your back where it would be difficult to reach and would require a mirror.
Most if not all cutters have been sexually abused yet this topic was not addressed.
People with Munchhausen derive satisfaction from the pity of others so what possible benefit is gained from killing a neighborhood kid with no relation to you ?
As drunk as she was she knew her mother was poisoning her sister yet she opted to drink the poison herself instead of confront her mother which seemed a bit unbelievable.… Expand

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jms333

Sep 8, 2018

Compelling, esp Adams, but no editor and reporter work that way, and no unproven reporter spends that much unproductive time on an out of town assignment. Some continuity problems, too. But Adams and that cast are so good that that's a quibble. .

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 8, 2018
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  S1:E8. Milk
  Air Date: August 26, 2018
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  S1:E7. Falling
  Air Date: August 19, 2018
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  S1:E6. Cherry
  Air Date: August 12, 2018
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  S1:E5. Closer
  Air Date: August 5, 2018
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  S1:E4. Ripe
  Air Date: July 29, 2018
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  S1:E3. Fix
  Air Date: July 22, 2018
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  S1:E2. Dirt
  Air Date: July 15, 2018
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  S1:E1. Vanish
  Air Date: July 8, 2018