If you knew nothing about the dynamic between Adora and her children, her scenes caring for Camille may seem sweet. But there’s something beyond altruism behind this decision - a desire to feel her mother’s love for the first time in her life. It’s why she eats this dinner and drinks the poison milk, collapsing on the floor soon after. It’s why she asks if Amma can come back to St. What she can’t ignore is Camille’s haunted, mascara-smudged gaze. She looks at Amma lovingly, somehow not noticing that she’s terribly ill and hovering near death. Adora has the uncanny skill of ignoring anything unwholesome or gnarled even while most of her actions could be described as such. When she walks inside the home, she’s plunged into a claustrophobic scene that trades in one of the most fraught domestic spheres: a family dinner.Īdora, Alan, and Amma, still looking like a wayward Ophelia, sit around the table eating their meal as if their family isn’t unraveling at a breakneck speed. The voices of Jackie, Marian, and others echo in her mind. Camille is plagued by the dark knowledge of her mother’s history and cruelty. The finale, “Milk,” begins only a few moments after the last episode. Instead, it doubles down on its most beguiling quality, subverting our expectations in order to present a bruising character study about how women grapple with intimate abuse and violence, in the process becoming a towering achievement for each of its leads.
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If you’re expecting the series to present a finale of polished twists and simple resolutions, you’ll be disappointed.
It’s these questions that power the transfixing and powerful final hour of Sharp Objects. As we grow older as women, are we only destined to repeat the sins of our mothers and replay the stories of their lives for which they never were able to find resolution? Or can we step out of their shadows to craft a narrative of our own making?