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.

HBO’s wonderfully addictive eight-episode murder mystery based on the Gillian Flynn novel, is predominantly about character; the murder mystery is there to drive the captivating psychological profiles of the main characters. ... Clarkson is remarkable in the role. ... Adams carries the limited series beautifully with a quiet but jagged intensity.

With many men and women working hard to give off the appearance of a perfect existence while others still close their doors and turn a blind eye to the darkness that clings to the corners of Wind Gap, trauma and abuse have been allowed to continue in a cyclical pattern for years. It's unclear through seven episodes how and if that will ever change for the people of Wind Gap as a community, but perhaps by the end of the series Camille will at least have found the answers — and the strength — she needs to be able to finally put the horrors of her own life behind her.

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

Sharp Objects views Camille's assignment, and confrontation with her past, as a laudable, necessary undertaking. Perhaps because it's framed through Camille's perspective, the series is unrelentingly pessimistic. Yet beneath its grimness, Sharp Objects ultimately testifies to the triumph of survival, no matter how ugly or desperate a form it takes.

[Sharp Objects] is frustratingly opaque, and it moves like molasses. It’s such a slow burn, it nearly fizzles out. ... At the very least, it’s still an artfully shot showcase for some fine acting, which isn’t the worst thing in the world. But considering the big names involved and the promising source material, it can’t help but feel like a letdown.

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.

This mini HBO series is a perfect thriller in which you can see a complicated situation between Camille and Adora, Sharp objects travels through the reasons for their intricate relationship and the effects that this has had for Camille. This series generates a great interest because nothing is predictable and when it seems that it is, you need to pay attention. I recommend watching and enjoy it

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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Can't see why the reviews are so high. It had the potential to be a good murder mystery which it looked like in the trailer. Instead it turned out to be a torture simulator. If you are in the mood for watching a depressed self mutilator with severe mommy issues well your in luck, but if you are a sane person that actually likes a good plot that moves along, avoid this like the plague.

Sharp Objects is very, very disappointing even though its powerful cast did everything they could to keep it in the highest position possible.