", Also Read: Sharp Objects Star Eliza Scanlen Portraits (Exclusive Photos). His mission has becomehe wants to solve her. I know they weren't in love, in a long term relationship, but somehow a bit of compassion beyond "I'm sorry" seemed called for. At first, it might seem unclear why Chris Messinabeloved for playing characters like crotchety Staten Island OBGYN Danny Castellano on The Mindy Project, Claires Republican lawyer boyfriend Ted in Six Feet Under, Julie & Julia's present-day supportive husband Ericmight identify with Sharp Objects' outsider detective, Richard Willis, brought in to Wind Gap from Kansas City to investigate the murder of two young girls. It hasnt been expressed to me, so Im not sure. This was a better way to end it. Sam Richardson Is Happy That the Kids Are Finding. Natalie's murder was almost the exact same, except they held her in the carriage house for 48 hours, playing dress up and torturing her. Beyond that, Camille also spent time in a mental institution, both as a teenager and in her adulthood, and her time there as a teen proved to be incredibly upsetting. Camille's father is nothing more than an out-of-town boy from Kentucky who a 16-year-old Adora met at church camp, then never spoke to again once he left town and her impregnated. I'm not sure how the book version of Camille was but I think in the show she wasn't really ready for a relationship with anyone anyway. She never hears from Richard ever again. And I don't think her earlier relationship with Richard really signified that before he told her off. Still, with due respect to The Atlantic's Sophie Gilbert, who recently inveighed against the "trope of the unethical female journalist," I think "Sharp Objects" is up to something a little different here. Amma was the one who pulled out both girls' teeth for the "ivory" floor in her dollhouse, and the book notes that little girls' teeth are actually much easier to pull out than an adults' (or a pig). She seems to accept his apology and acknowledges the complexity of their situation. This might be a pattern of his. Youre lucky when you have that kind of flow. Ultimately, Camille and Amma's shared hangover is what reveals a terrible secret about the Preaker family specifically, what happened to Camille's younger sister, Marian. So the fact that its eight hours and we can spend time roaming aroundIm kind of cool with that, to be honest with you. She takes a knife to the one uncut part of her bodyher backand is only prevented from going after her own face because her. Cut to credits. Adora also stopped getting sick after her mom died. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. During a Sharp Objects finale credits scene, we saw flashes of the murders and learned that Amma didnt act alone. I really loved KC's portrayal - his eyes were full of shock and sorrow. "Its an interesting topic to talk about as a man. she said, adding that he has a reputation for "exquisite" musical tastes. I feel happy that people wont take that shit or abuse or wont hold everything in anymore. So thats sort of the meat of the finale. And Adora, a lot of what Amma does is in reaction to Adora. No [laughs]. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. Well, not outside of pop psych.). But as a result, fans were left with a lot of unresolved questions after the final episode of the limited series. Eileen and Curry treat her like their child. After insulting John and his girlfriend when they show up to the shindig, forcing them to leave, Amma gives Camille drugs, and the two make their way home on ecstasy and prescription pills before passing out in the Preaker home as Adora silently watches. Luckily for the insatiably curious, the original source material offers very clear-cut answers to everything that jaw-dropping finale left out. As the two sisters bond, Amma makes a new young friend in the neighborhood, Mae (Iyana Halley), and all finally seems well with the Preaker sisters. Thing is, after everything he said and did at the motel, nothing would have worked out. But I would be open. Chris Messina as Detective Willis in Sharp Objects HBO Camille lives and works in St. Louis in the show as opposed to Chicago, where she works in the book. It's interestingpartly hes manipulating Camille and partly hes being manipulated by Camille. In the show Alan briefly mentions Adora's mother, Joya, and how she used to go into Adora's room at night to pinch her daughter to make sure she was still alive -- which sounds like the kind of unstable behavior Adora herself demonstrates toward her daughters later. Also Read: Sharp Objects Showrunner on Premieres Aha Moment, What Those Sharp Objects Have Done to Camille, Showrunner Marti Noxon helps breaks down the biggest discrepancies for TheWrap. Author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn is best known for her bestselling novel as well as its acclaimed David Fincher film adaptation Gone Girl, but if you liked the story of Amy and Nick Dunne's rollercoaster of a marriage, you'll definitely enjoy Flynn's other work, as well. With the ramifications of the finale, there would be other things to tell. Well, not differently, just with more to it. 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. The scene in the bathtub, thats where the real meat of the crime is taking place and it tells you everything about how it happened in the past and what really happened to the girls. And they started to ask prying questions about why Amma was sick all the time. In the aftermath of their mother's arrest, Camille brings Amma to live with her in St. Louis, giving her a fresh start far away from Wind Gap. He knows she's going to have to flip her life upside down and take up custody of Amma. But no, I think everybody works really hard. That idea bleeds into Camilles own mythos: The [Preaker] family has myths, the family has things that arent necessarily true on the surface.. YOU'VE REACHED YOUR MONTHLY ARTICLE LIMIT. The whole thing was sparked by a poll using white supremacist rhetoric. [1] The novel follows Camille Preaker, a newspaper journalist who must return to her hometown to report on a series of brutal murders. I think he made me a better actor. I was mindful that many of the people watching the show would not know the story," Marti Noxon told TheWrap after the premiere. Here, we explain the entire ending and what happens to Camille and the Preaker family. The Camille of the show may be about to head off into an even uglier place we just dont know but the Camille of the novel at least retains an ounce of hope. Eventually, Bob and John come to blows during the town's "Calhoun Day" celebrations, which commemorates the town's founding. Camille tries to get more information, but Adora refuses. As for Camille's visions of Marian, Alice, Natalie and Ann, those were a visually creative decision added to the show by Vallee as well. People do that to fuck it up beyond repair and avoid being one of those dreadful couples in a toxic relationship constantly off and on again. In the aftermath of Natalie's frightening reappearance, two suspects stand out from the rest: Ann's father, Bob Nash, and Natalie's brother, John Keene. Lately, Ive been leaning towards kindness.. I could see her being institutionalized for a time, or just going to live with Curry and his wife, who were more family to her than anyone. Accepting his apology changes nothing for her/her situation, so she doesn't. I agree. Another creepy detail left out of the show is how Amma collects the poor girl's hair, braiding it together to recreate the rug from Camille's old room for her dollhouse. But this group, I would go with them forever. In the book, Camille and Amma also live together (St. Louis on the show, Chicago in the book), but its not the smile-inducing, magical musical montage that the show provides. This scene between Camille and Richard was a repeat too - when Kirk Lacey "apologizes" to Camille during "Girls' Night" she outright rejects and boldly mocks him because she knows he isn't earnest, is doing so selfishly and has learned nothing from his prior behavior. Distraught, Camille is then given even more information when Jackie O'Neill (Elizabeth Perkins), the town gossip, tells her about Adora's condition of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. But then in high school, girls were like, So, I hear you dance." He finishes the anecdote with a quirk of his eyebrow. Its a scene that works on the page, but would feel awfully heavy-handed on the screen. The HBO adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects novel is faithful to the source material in the best way. While looking through Amma's dollhouse, which she brought to St. Louis, Camille finds pristine white teeth. 17-Down, Three Letters: Party for One artist Carly ___ Jepsen. 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. Gillian Flynn insists she never even considered changing the ending of Sharp Objects to shock faithful readers who had tuned in to the show. A barely functioning alcoholic, Camille uses booze to make it through each day, stashing vodka in her car and in her luggage to make sure she can survive any time in Wind Gap, especially under such macabre circumstances. 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. Despite the fact that Natalie has been missing for days, her dead body suddenly shows up right near Wind Gap's police station, left in a pose and, in a gruesome touch, missing all of her teeth. While grooming Ann by painting her nails and shaving her legs, the girl started to sense something was wrong and tried running. Id be like 'OK, you did!'" You know, this story feels very complete. Camille is holding up one of the teeth in horror when Amma enters the room. The final act of Sharp Objects seems to be something of an epilogue, showing Camille and Amma forming a new life in St Louis - the former starts on the road to recovery and the latter makes new friends and begins to look to the future. "Sharp Objects" wrapped its eight-episode run on HBO Sunday, giving you the twisted ending to Marti Noxon's take on Gillian Flynn's debut novel. While Ann's body was found in Wind Gap's adjoining woods, Natalie's was presented for the entire town to see, making the killer's motive and style much more difficult to pin down as Camille and the police try to investigate. Here, Noxon broke down a few of them for TheWrap. The more we talked about the fake news of the town, the things that they told each other that just werent true, the more we kept focusing on the founders story, and the joke was that we were going to do Calhoun Day the musical, she said with a laugh. The show doesn't get into the true meaning behind these words. However, there's one more twist to go. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. The finale of HBOs adaptation of Gillian Flynns Sharp Objects ended with the reveal that even though Adora (Patricia Clarkson) had killed her daughter Marian and was finally sent to jail for her crimes she wasnt the one who murdered Natalie and Ann. The women of, Sam Levinson and the Weeknd Allegedly Turned, Theres No Red Button You Can Push to Stop. I agree with TheWrap's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and provide my consent to receive marketing communications from them. A one-stop-shop for all things video games. But Amma described her Grecian getup as transforming her into Artemis, the blood huntress. In Flynn's novel, Camille does attend rehab and has a 16-year-old girl as a roommate, who kills herself by swallowing a bottle of Windex -- but her good friend Alice is strictly a character from the show. "Sharp Objects" wrapped its eight-episode run on HBO Sunday, giving you the twisted ending to Marti Noxon's take on Gillian Flynn's debut novel. Of course, Camille's connection to music is largely due to her relationship with Alice, who also isn't mentioned in the book. And like someone else commented, I imagine there's a decent chance they'd interact again just from the fallout of the Amma reveal. Afterwards, in the hospital, Richard tells Camille that Adora's "medicine" was really rat poison, and that Amma had built up a tolerance, but Camille hadn't and almost died from her mother's dosage. They werent my secrets anymore, she says. But Camille gets Amma's reasoning directly from the horse's mouth when she visits her in prison in the book. However, Mae later goes missing, troubling both Camille and Amma, but that's nothing compared to Camille's eventual discovery. He doesnt rehearse and theres no marks on the ground. .css-5rg4gn{display:block;font-family:NeueHaasUnica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0.3125rem;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-5rg4gn:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){.css-5rg4gn{font-size:1rem;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin:0.75rem 0 0;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-5rg4gn{font-size:1rem;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:0.02rem;margin:0.9375rem 0 0;}}@media(min-width: 64rem){.css-5rg4gn{font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4;margin:0.9375rem 0 0.625rem;}}@media(min-width: 73.75rem){.css-5rg4gn{font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4;}}Aminah Nieves on Those Shocking 1923 Scenes. Its hard to say whether him being around would hurt or help. Indeed, the finale confirmed what Detective Willis (Chris Messina) previously discovered, that Adora suffers from Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Camille Preaker, a reporter for the St. Louis Chronicle, is sent to her rural hometown of Wind Gap to file a story about two missing girls, one of whom was found dead and presumed murdered. But the book continues for a bit and Amma even ends up in prison for what she's done and Camille goes to live with Curry and Eileen to recover from a relapse into cutting. Was I good at caring for Amma because of kindness? Jackie agrees that Adora becoming a mother is what killed her parents, describing Camille as the first thing Adora had that Joya "couldn't get at." On a scale of laminated-eyebrow drama to Lemon Lady Secrets. It was something of a bittersweet goodbye, and I think it worked well. Camille's sorry in return is also twofold- first that she hurt him, second that he got pulled into the abyss of the Crellin/Preaker family. They died at almost exactly the same time, about a year after Camille was born. But Marian didn't live to see adulthood. 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