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Sharp Objects

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Sharp Objects	type	TVTItem
Sharp Objects	label	Sharp Objects
Sharp Objects	page	SharpObjects
Sharp Objects	comment	Sharp Objects is an HBO limited series that aired from July 8, 2018 to August 26, 2018, starring Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Eliza Scanlen, Matt Craven, Sophia Lillis and Henry Czerny, based on the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn.Camille Preaker (Adams) is a reporter from St. Louis who, shortly after a stay at a psych hospital, is assigned to cover the murders of two preteen girls from her hometown: Wind Gap, Missouri. Camille returns to Wind Gap to stay with her family — her abusive, cruel mother Adora (Clarkson), her stepfather Alan (Czerny) and her younger half-sister, Amma (Scanlen). The police chief, Vickery (Craven) resents Camille's presence, and a detective from Kansas City, Richard Willis (Messina), begins to grow closer to Camille.While the series is partly about solving the murders, it is mainly focused on Camille and her mental health — Camille self-harms by cutting words into her body, and is still psychologically scarred from her younger sister's death when she was a teenager. In order to solve the murders and put to rest her demons, Camille must confront her past and her family.
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Sharp Objects / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Sharp Objects / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Adora and her relationships with men. In the book, Adora seems to have less than no interest in men, and seems to regard them as merely a way to get her what she wants (children). While she cosies up to Alan to get what she wants, they don't seem to have sex, or even express physical affection for each other. In the series, she and Alan have aggressive sex after an argument, and it's heavily implied that she's having an affair with Chief Vickery. In the book, Camille simply undresses in front of John Keane and shows him her scars. In the series, they have sex, which results in the dissolution of her and Richard's growing relationship.
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Sharp Objects / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
Sharp Objects / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Camille comes to Wind Gap because of Natalie Keene's disappearance, and stays once her body is found.
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Sharp Objects / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Sharp Objects / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Camille realizes that her mother had poisoned Marian to death.
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Sharp Objects / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Sharp Objects / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Adora has nothing but terrible things to say about Camille's wayward father, if she says anything at all. All of Camille's information on him seems to come from her, but we later learn that Adora is hardly a reliable source of information, so we have no idea if he was truly a bad guy.
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Sharp Objects / int_1aa76d29	type	Death by Origin Story
Sharp Objects / int_1aa76d29	comment	Death by Origin Story: Marian's death was a formative influence on Camille.
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Sharp Objects / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Sharp Objects / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Camille's father is rarely mentioned and never named, but casts an fairly large shadow over her relationship with her mother.
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Sharp Objects / int_1dc5730a	type	CharacterTic
Sharp Objects / int_1dc5730a	comment	Character Tic: Adora pulls out her eyelashes when she's upset. Camille flashes back to her doing it on a number of occasions.
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Sharp Objects / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Sharp Objects / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the book, it's not made very clear how much Alan knows about what Adora does, but the show makes it clear that he knows and, while he doesn't fully approve, won't stop her and will make sure she won't get caught.
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Sharp Objects / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
Sharp Objects / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: Camille's body is covered in disparaging words that she carved into herself. She occasionally relapses in the course of the narrative, poking her fingertips with a needle and drawing words on her jeans.
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Sharp Objects / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Sharp Objects / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The missing teeth, Amma's dollhouse, Natalie's painted fingernails, the woman in white, the blood in the carriage house and Adora's bedroom.
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Sharp Objects / int_24a045cd	type	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency
Sharp Objects / int_24a045cd	comment	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Lacey, one of the guys who gang-raped Camille, claims to be haunted by it and apologises, but mostly wants his apology to be accepted.
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Sharp Objects / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Sharp Objects / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Adora is loved and respected by almost everyone in Wind Gap. At home, she is incredibly controlling, abusive, and manipulative, especially of Camille, and she poisons her children so she can care for them, to the point where she got carried away and killed one of them. Amma is also an example of this trope. She's a sweet and innocent child at home, but when she's away from her mother she drinks, does drugs, is a violent bully, and killed three people. Ashley acts like a doting girlfriend, but immediately sells out John when Vickery offers to put her name in the paper.
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Sharp Objects / int_27a036db	type	Covered with Scars
Sharp Objects / int_27a036db	comment	Covered with Scars: Camille's entire body is covered in words that she carved into herself. She always wears long pants and sleeves, even in the hot summer, because of this.
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Sharp Objects / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Sharp Objects / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Camille's father is out of the picture. He's never named in conversation and it's unclear if he's still alive or if anyone even knows what became of him.
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Sharp Objects / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Sharp Objects / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Adora, who manages to force everyone to bend to her whims by playing up her fragility and even uses her daughter's disappearance as a way of getting as much attention lavished on her as possible. These are all hints at her Munchhausen by proxy disorder, which causes her to sicken her children so that she can have their attention.
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Sharp Objects / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Sharp Objects / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Amma's Girl Posse is missing a member in the TV series, where there were two Kelseys and the "weaker" of the two was renamed Jodes.
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Sharp Objects / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Sharp Objects / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Camille is jokingly called "intrepid girl reporter," a title used for Lois Lane. Amy Adams has played Lois Lane in three movies.
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Sharp Objects / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Sharp Objects / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Frank Curry behaves more like a father to Camille than Alan ever did, and also shows more parental concern for her than her mother, Adora, actually does.
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Sharp Objects / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Sharp Objects / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Some of Amma's crueler moments, such as slapping her friend in the face, smashing her dollhouse furniture for being wrong, ripping apart fireflies, getting a girl drunk and leaving her with a group of older boys, are cut out of the TV adaptation. This is apparently to better hide the twist that she is one of the killers.
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Sharp Objects / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
Sharp Objects / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: In the book, Camille lives in Chicago before coming home to Missouri, whereas in the TV adaptation, she lives in St. Louis.
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Sharp Objects / int_41dce76e	type	Small Town Boredom
Sharp Objects / int_41dce76e	comment	Small Town Boredom: It wasn't just boredom, but Camille moved from Wind Gap to St. Louis as an adult to get away from the small town.
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Sharp Objects / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Sharp Objects / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Does Amma get caught? How does Camille deal with what she's discovered about Amma?
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Sharp Objects / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
Sharp Objects / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: Camille frequently has these.
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Sharp Objects / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Sharp Objects / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: In the finale, you see a brief, rapid-fire sequence of Amma killing the three girls, including Mae, and a shot of her as the woman in white.
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Sharp Objects / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Sharp Objects / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Adora and Alan's house is an antique Victorian, fancy and old enough to have a room with an entirely ivory floor. Amma tirelessly works on a dollhouse reconstruction of it, calling it her dream.
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Sharp Objects / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
Sharp Objects / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: In-universe. People frequently tell Camille that she is beautiful, which only upsets her given that she knows her whole body is covered in scars.
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Sharp Objects / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Sharp Objects / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Camille is a journalist, though she's not shown to be a very good one.
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Sharp Objects / int_4e3e577a	type	Psychological Horror
Sharp Objects / int_4e3e577a	comment	Psychological Horror: The story has shades of this.
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Sharp Objects / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Sharp Objects / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The show ends on one, which doubles as a Cruel Twist Ending.
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Sharp Objects / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Sharp Objects / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At the end of the first episode, the shot of Camille's bare back, every inch covered in old scars that form words. Camille finds a tooth under the bed in Amma's dollhouse...then realizes the entire floor is made from teeth.
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Sharp Objects / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Sharp Objects / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Camille was gang-raped by her classmates in the woods as a teenager, and there are flashbacks that show the leadup to it.
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Sharp Objects / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Sharp Objects / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: The story is interspersed with flashbacks, mostly to Camille as a teenager.
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Sharp Objects / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
Sharp Objects / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: While the scene itself is silent, this is presumably what young Camille says after seeing Marion's body in the church.
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Sharp Objects / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Sharp Objects / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Willis calls Camille an "intrepid girl reporter."
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Sharp Objects / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Sharp Objects / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In episode 2, the word "SCARED" is scratched above the handle on Camille's car door. When we see the door for the second time, the word reads "SACRED."
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Sharp Objects / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Sharp Objects / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Alan is almost a nonentity of a person. He exercises almost no will in the family. When helping her get ready for bed, he asks if she needs him for anything else, as if he were a butler. He seems to spend every night sleeping on a fold-away sofa bed. It's not entirely clear how much he knows, or allows himself to know, about Adora's murderous motherhood, but he does cover for her with lies.
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Sharp Objects / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Sharp Objects / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Possibly. In the book, Camille defends how she lost her virginity and insists that it was consensual, and there's no indication in the book that we're supposed to disagree with her or think she's lying. In the series, she is explicitly gang-raped.
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Sharp Objects / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Sharp Objects / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The show frequently flashes back to images seen earlier, but after new context that sheds new light. For example, Camille's car has "dirt" drawn into the dust covering the trunk. Once it's revealed that she carves disparaging words about herself on her skin, the show flashes back to the word, making it clear that Camille drew the word in reference to herself.
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Sharp Objects / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Sharp Objects / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Don't tell Mama."
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Sharp Objects / int_74c1b6f4	type	Flyover Country
Sharp Objects / int_74c1b6f4	comment	Flyover Country: Takes place in Missouri.
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Sharp Objects / int_7ecef168	type	Bonding Through Shared Earbuds
Sharp Objects / int_7ecef168	comment	Bonding Through Shared Earbuds: The third episode reveals that while Camille was in psychiatric lockup for her self-harm, she shared a rare moment of hope with Alice, a teenage patient who convinces a nurse to let them listen to music, and they listen to Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" on shared headphones.
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Sharp Objects / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Sharp Objects / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Camille drinks almost constantly. She brings a plastic bag full of minibottles of liquor to Wind Gap and is frequently seen drinking clear liquor from an Evian bottle, even while driving.
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Sharp Objects / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
Sharp Objects / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Amma wears her hair up whenever she's around her mother—frequently pulled back with bows, like a younger girl would wear—but wears it loose with her friends and around Camille, when her "true" nature is on display.
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Sharp Objects / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Sharp Objects / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Adora is a domineering and emotionally manipulative mother. She also serves as the town's matriarch through her financial holdings and isn't shy about throwing her weight around.
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Sharp Objects / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Sharp Objects / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: The Crellin/Preaker women are all messed up in some way. Camille is an alcoholic and only partly recovered self-harmer, Adora is cruel, manipulative, abusive, and killed one of her children and regularly poisons the others, and Amma already drinks and does drugs on a regular basis, is a violent bully, and kills three people.
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Sharp Objects / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Sharp Objects / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Adora comes out and says that she loved Marian more than Camille, and it's clear she cares more for Amma, too. In a late episode, she comes out and admits that she never really loved Camille. Ann Nash, though mostly because she was tragically killed, but her father ignores the other three children.
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Sharp Objects / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
Sharp Objects / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: Camille and John Keene, who are both in great pain over losing their younger sister.
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Sharp Objects / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Sharp Objects / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Camille's editor is frequently shown fixing things around the house while coaching to her on the phone. His wife lampshades the symbolism by telling him that he can't fix Camille like he can the house.
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Sharp Objects / int_924bfd78	type	Creepy Dollhouse
Sharp Objects / int_924bfd78	comment	Creepy Dollhouse: Amma's, which she has made to resemble Adora's house obsessively. And where she stores her victims' teeth.
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Sharp Objects / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Sharp Objects / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Natalie Keene's body is propped up in an alley to be found by the police and citizens of Wind Gap.
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Sharp Objects / int_9c209a57	type	The Hecate Sisters
Sharp Objects / int_9c209a57	comment	The Hecate Sisters: Reconstructed. Amma is the maiden (sexually-active, adventurous, and even associated with Artemis), though this counts as Troubling Unchildlike Behavior as she's a young teenager. Adora is the mother: she's obsessed with taking care of girls, even those that don't want her (like Camille), and her "medicines" are poisonous. Camille is the crone. She remains single and unmarried, despite her Ship Tease with Richard, being regarded as young and beautiful, and being repeatedly told that she should have a baby by Amma and her toxic friends. She does a better job at taking care of Amma than Adora did, but it ultimately goes wrong.
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Sharp Objects / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Sharp Objects / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing The final victim is said to be put on display "like a doll." Someone describes the ivory floor as made of "elephant teeth." Amma's friends chide the sheriff for assuming that the killer is a man. When Camille warns Amma and her friends that someone is killing girls, they respond flippantly, "Not the cool ones." Amma says that her friends would do anything for her. When playing with Mae, Amma mimes getting strangled by a loop of wire.
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Sharp Objects / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Sharp Objects / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Adora is in prison and Camille is finally healing from the ordeals of her time in Wind Gap. She's rescued Amma from her family and is raising her in St. Louis. And then she looks closely at the floor of her mother's bedroom in Amma's dollhouse.
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Sharp Objects / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Sharp Objects / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Amma—she knows how to manipulate just about anybody she comes up against, behaves in decidedly unchildlike ways around others but adopts a disturbingly childlike persona around her mother, and of course, violently murdered three young girls. It's heavily implied that Natalie Keene was as well: John Keene and Ashley both have significant scars from Natalie's bites (including a bitten-off piece of earlobe, on Ashley's part), she stabbed another girl in the eye over a pencil, and enjoyed feeding stunned insects to her pet spiders.
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Sharp Objects / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Alice, the girl who Camille shares a room with in care, is unnamed, is mentioned in the two lines in the book, and has no dialogue. In the show, there are full flashbacks of her and Camilla being friends, she is a significant part of Camille's arc, and Camille's music is a Tragic Keepsake from her after her suicide.
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Sharp Objects / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: It's not entirely clear just how knowingly complicit Alan was in Adora's Munchhausen by proxy, but he seems to know something is up, given that he lies to cover for Adora. In spite of Vickery's promise to investigate Alan, he is never arrested and is last seen hanging around the house while Adora languishes in jail. The fact that Amma does not stay with him suggests that the authorities might suspect that he's an unsafe guardian.
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Sharp Objects / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: In the book, Bob Nash is patient with his young daughter when she interrupts his interview with Camille; in the series, he snaps at her for interrupting and threatens her.
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Sharp Objects / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Adora tells Chief Vickery that she can't believe Bob Keene is guilty because she can't imagine anyone hurting their own child. Adora killed her daughter Marion.
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Sharp Objects / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: There's blood coming out of Natalie Keene's mouth when her body is found. When Alice is found dead, she'd vomited blood all over the floor.
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Sharp Objects / int_c3665600	comment	Mammy: In the series, the Crellins' maid, Gayla, is the only visible black person in Wind Gap. This is a Race Lift; in the book, the character is white.
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Sharp Objects / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Amy Adams in her underwear would normally be sexy, but her character's body is Covered with Scars from years of self-harm.
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Sharp Objects / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Much is made about how much physical strength is required to pull teeth, suggesting that the killer is an adult man. It's actually Amma, with help from two other teenage girl accomplices. Combined, they're strong enough to strangle the girls to death and apparently pull their teeth out. The book also points out that children's teeth would be easier to pull out than an adult's. At the end of two episodes, Alan is seen doing strange things, suggesting that he is the killer. In one episode, he looks at the doll house and starts tugging at one of his teeth. In another episode, after getting into a fight with Adora, he storms back in and they have aggressive sex intermixed in a montage of other unsettling things going on.
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