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Sharp Objects is my new favourite show. I definitely feel its True Detective Season One s2. I'm starting to realize I'm a sucker for Southern Gothic. -the mum reminds me of Six Feet Under mum. And also a mum or two I know in rl ha. ga! almost from the first couple seconds of her on the show I knew she was a highly toxic person surrounded by enablers. boundaries, amy adams! boundaries! -the town is really well established as a small rear end place. when everybody is connected and has multiple social roles. again, relatable. -religion hasn't really played a big role in this as southern gothics go. -i would say more but its v early in the morning here in nz. -watch this show!
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Lampsacus posted:Sharp Objects is my new favourite show. I definitely feel its True Detective Season One s2. I'm starting to realize I'm a sucker for Southern Gothic. She was on 6FU! But holy heck Ruth wasn't anything like her in Sharp Objects.
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Aug 19, 2018 18:41
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Oof, this show took a quick turn into schlock tonight. Can we please put a moratorium on Munchausen by proxy as a literary device? It's reached a point of over-representation with it where it's hoary chliche on level with retrograde amnesia.
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Aug 20, 2018 03:59
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Man I didn't see that coming. I guess the step-dad's weirdness with the music is just him willfully ignoring what she's doing?
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Aug 20, 2018 04:55
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El Jeffe posted:Man I didn't see that coming. I think everyone is coping in their own way. Honestly I think he's terrified.
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Aug 20, 2018 05:01
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Matt Zerella posted:I think everyone is coping in their own way. Honestly I think he's terrified. I can see that. This whole time he's seemed creepy but he's actually just on edge being married to a poisoner.
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Aug 20, 2018 05:53
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General Dog posted:Oof, this show took a quick turn into schlock tonight. Can we please put a moratorium on Munchausen by proxy as a literary device? It's reached a point of over-representation with it where it's hoary chliche on level with retrograde amnesia. I'm at a loss trying to think of another recentish novel where MSbP is the critical lynch-pin of the story. The novel/miniseries was likely inspired by a popular non-fictional account of MSbP that came out a few years before called Sickened that outlined a victim's systemic abuse at the hands of her mother and her father's apathetic negligence on the matter.
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Aug 20, 2018 06:14
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"Schlock" is the essence of this show though, and of pretty much all of Gillian Flynn's work.
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Aug 20, 2018 09:15
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El Jeffe posted:I can see that. This whole time he's seemed creepy but he's actually just on edge being married to a poisoner. Now you know how Michael Scott felt with Jan.
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Aug 20, 2018 14:40
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Vanderdeath posted:I'm at a loss trying to think of another recentish novel where MSbP is the critical lynch-pin of the story. The novel/miniseries was likely inspired by a popular non-fictional account of MSbP that came out a few years before called Sickened that outlined a victim's systemic abuse at the hands of her mother and her father's apathetic negligence on the matter. I think you're probably right and I'm struggling for examples but my reaction was also 'Really? AGAIN?' so I dunno.
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Aug 20, 2018 18:01
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Vanderdeath posted:I'm at a loss trying to think of another recentish novel where MSbP is the critical lynch-pin of the story. The novel/miniseries was likely inspired by a popular non-fictional account of MSbP that came out a few years before called Sickened that outlined a victim's systemic abuse at the hands of her mother and her father's apathetic negligence on the matter. It seems like something that might have shown up as a story element in a case-of-the-week procedural like House or Law and Order, or even X-Files, maybe more than once. I have a vague recollection of Gillian Anderson explaining what it is in an exasperated voice, but that could be a garbled version of like a dozen different scenes.
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Aug 20, 2018 18:36
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It was showing up as early as The Sixth Sense
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Aug 20, 2018 18:40
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Well, I'm showing my rear end here for the book readers, but I still don't really believe Adora is the murderer. Suspect Power rankings, going into the last week 1. Amma/Amma's friends/some collection of HS girls 2. The sheriff 3. Adora 4. The detective
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Aug 20, 2018 18:48
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They telegraphed it really hard that Camille was going to gently caress and then get busted loving the high schooler, then they throw in the obligatory after the fact he's actually 18 so it wasn't illegal, still hosed up though. I found the scene very tense and I was cringing the entire time. Very uncomfortable to watch.
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Aug 20, 2018 18:49
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MSbP must be a trope, because as soon as Adora started giving Camille medication my mind immediately went there.
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Aug 20, 2018 20:20
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You guys holy smokes it's the mom.
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Aug 20, 2018 21:31
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Count me as someone who has also never seen it used as a plot device in literally any other thing before. I’d only heard of it because of Eminem’s mom also reminder this is an adaptation of a 12 year old book
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Aug 20, 2018 21:51
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I'm not sure Adora's guilt is meant to be a twist so much as a confirmation. This episode felt like the monster stepping out of the shadows at the end of the horror movie. The horror is that it's been there the whole time.
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Aug 20, 2018 23:00
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Here's my stupid theory about who's helping the murderer: In one of the earlier episodes when we find out the girls' teeth were pulled out with pliers, there's a shot of the police chief fixing a stop sign with a pair of pliers
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Aug 21, 2018 00:11
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How did she write so legibly on her own back, or arrange the letters so well?
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Aug 21, 2018 03:16
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th3t00t posted:They telegraphed it really hard that Camille was going to gently caress and then get busted loving the high schooler, then they throw in the obligatory after the fact he's actually 18 so it wasn't illegal, still hosed up though. I found the scene very tense and I was cringing the entire time. Very uncomfortable to watch. I still don’t get his living situation. His crazy cheerleader girlfriend who is in high school owns the house and he’s the only source of income? And they have a pool?
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Aug 21, 2018 03:40
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It's her parents' house. How the parents are okay with this is unclear.
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Aug 21, 2018 03:41
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General Dog posted:It's her parents' house. How the parents are okay with this is unclear. That couch handjob scene just got a million times more uncomfortable.
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Aug 21, 2018 03:50
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i <3 this show figured adora was up to something, or had done something awful in the past, from a couple of episodes in, so glad my initial suspicions seemed sound lmao really looking forward to reading the book after next week
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Aug 23, 2018 08:46
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General Dog posted:It's her parents' house. How the parents are okay with this is unclear. eh they live in the pool/guest house out back. not that uncommon.
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Aug 23, 2018 08:48
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This show makes no sense. In the real world if not one but two pretty little white girls were brutally murdered by a serial killer the entire national media would descend upon the town like a swarm of locusts along with teams of state and federal investigators. You wouldn’t need to coerce one reporter to go cover it and it definitely wouldn’t be up to the podunk local sheriff and one big city detective to solve the case. But aside from that the show is pretty good.
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Aug 24, 2018 00:36
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I know the show isn’t really structured like a murder mystery—or the one murder that mattered to the story was solved last episode—but I want to vote for Amma and her roller skate friends as the killers. This last episode presented them as omnipresent and creepy with stony faces. I’ll say Amma’s got like a Charles Manson hold on her friends and the killing is linked to episodes where the mom poisons her. Or Amma and the mom bond by going out and killing a kid after a poisoning episode. Or maybe Amma is like a Charles Manson to the mom and reasserts her power by getting the mom to do the killings. I don’t know, but Amma and her friends are creepy and one big showcase set piece of the series was Amma getting high and telling Amy Adams that she had trouble manipulating girls and viewed all interactions with others as zero-sum games of manipulation, so that’s probably a big part of the resolution of the series. Can’t wait to be totally wrong because I missed something obvious!
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Aug 25, 2018 01:17
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I have not read the book - but the cheerleader girlfriend is definitely guilty. The boy arrested had bite marks as a defensive wound from Natalie- who I think was one of the dead girls. The cheerleader had half of her ear bitten off. If she didn’t do it then she for sure helped.
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Aug 25, 2018 18:39
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Quinoa posted:I have not read the book - but the cheerleader girlfriend is definitely guilty. Yeah there's gotta be something there unless she's a massive red herring. I'm pretty sure the brother had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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Aug 25, 2018 19:02
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They inserted a whole scene of her being crazy about cleaning the house because the brother didn’t nut on her that hasn’t paid off yet. I think it’s the only scene with her not from Amy Adams’ point of view.
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Aug 25, 2018 19:12
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business hammocks posted:They inserted a whole scene of her being crazy about cleaning the house because the brother didn’t nut on her that hasn’t paid off yet. I think it’s the only scene with her not from Amy Adams’ point of view. Yeah, specifically that she saw a big red stain under his bed IIRC
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Aug 25, 2018 21:26
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Couldn't get into this week-to-week but binged the whole thing over the weekend and can't wait to watch the finale tomorrow. It's a really good show. Really beautifully put together. I enjoy the relationship that Camile and her boss have over the phone. You can really feel the distance and the desperation. I know they're schlocky or whatever but I enjoy Gillian Flynn's stories and especially the adaptations we get out of them! e: Huh I didn't know Dark Places got an adaptation. Shame it doesn't sound like it was any good. Too soon for a remake with Flynn involved? nomapple fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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Aug 26, 2018 19:43
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I love murder/mystery schlock and Flynn does it v well, and has a leg up because she seems to love flawed and monstrous female protags as much as I do.
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Aug 26, 2018 21:25
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nomapple posted:e: Huh I didn't know Dark Places got an adaptation. Shame it doesn't sound like it was any good. Too soon for a remake with Flynn involved? Unfortunately, I found it really disappointing. I love Sharp Objects, and Gone Girl is one of my favorite movies of the decade (and either my second- or third-favorite Fincher movie, depending on the day). What was the deal with Utopia, an HBO series Flynn and Fincher were supposed to develop together? I know very little about it, but it sounded like a weird noir thing, maybe dystopian, possibly a psychological thriller, possibly some sci-fi or horror elements, and I don't know how we could have gone wrong with that. But it fell apart in preproduction, or HBO passed on it, or something?
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Aug 26, 2018 23:48
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nomapple posted:e: Huh I didn't know Dark Places got an adaptation. Shame it doesn't sound like it was any good. Too soon for a remake with Flynn involved? I'm gonna watch it anyway because Charlize Theron and Nicholas Holt are both fantastic. It can't be that bad.
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Aug 26, 2018 23:53
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precision posted:I'm gonna watch it anyway because Charlize Theron and Nicholas Holt are both fantastic. It can't be that bad. hell, 
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Aug 27, 2018 02:06
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 that credits sceneWhat a fantastic (mini)series, definitely gonna watch it again for those things I missed first time around.
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Aug 27, 2018 02:53
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Finally dropping the beat on In The Evening was A+.
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Aug 27, 2018 03:22
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That was a good rear end cut to credits
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Good loving lord what an ending.
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