“锋利的物品”主角Camille Preaker是由Amy Adams的播放，是许多情绪疤痕和少数微妙的女人。
Preaker, a newspaper reporter, packs for her small hometown of Wind Gap, Mo., with exactly three items: airplane bottles full of vodka, cartons of cigarettes and Butterfinger candy bars. And yet she seems to be theleastdysfunctional person in her hometown of 2,000, where she has returned to report on two children who have been murdered.
The HBO miniseries, which debuts Sunday, July 8, is a bleak piece of Midwestern gothic, which is plodding in its slow build, especially in the earliest of eight episodes. (Seven were made available to critics.) But it succeeds, and occasionally soars, behind the artistic ambitions of Adams, writer Marti Noxon and director Jean-Marc Vallee.
“Sharp Objects” is based on “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn’s first book, of the same name. Initially pursued as a movie, the television version maintains big-screen production values, with the necessary time to explore characters and take complicated paths.
Preaker is encouraged by her editor to write about the grisly murders, which has Wind Gap police enforcing paranoid curfews and children carrying guns. The more we see of the community, the more it becomes clear that the residents are feeding on each other –- more obsessed with who ranks where in the decomposing social structure than with the victims or the crimes themselves.
“That is so Wind Gap of you,” Preaker tells an out-of-town detective in one of the few playful moments in the series. “You learn someone’s secrets and then use it against them later.”
Everyone in this town seems to be in a bitter cycle of self-medication, trading recriminations, abandoning the simplest parenting duties and drinking at all hours. The latter group includes the Wind Gap lifer chief of police (Matt Craven) and a young detective from Kansas City (Chris Messina).
There are two mysteries. And as time passes, finding the killer feels more and more like the B story. Through flashbacks and self-examination, we find out what happened to Preaker and whether she is too far gone to find anything resembling peace.
亚当斯是出局tanding as Preaker, alternately emptying her veins and steadying herself enough to move the case forward. She travels a tortured path similar to her sad scientist in “Arrival,” without the supernatural intervention. There’s no such easy way out in this decaying town. There may be no way out at all.
She has strong allies in Noxon and Vallee, who both serve along with Adams as executive producers. Noxon fills the story with subtle characters, giving the small town a sense of time and space. Vallee directs each episode and keeps a steady momentum, despite one of the slowest-unfolding narratives in recent TV drama history.
The reporting parts are alternately detailed and maddening.
Vodka, smokes and candy is not an altogether inaccurate diet for the print journalist in the 21st世纪和Preaker的召开了1990年代沃尔沃 - 用M.病房的配乐和“LED Zeppelin II”在恒定的循环中 - 可能是好莱坞历史上最准确的记者车辆。
(We’ll look past her casual affair with a major source and her newspaper’s willingness to cut her loose for weeks to work on a single story.)
The plot of “Sharp Objects” starts meandering again as it heads toward the finish. But the lack of narrative progress is a small frustration, because the characters are so well crafted.
Adams reaffirms herself as one of the strongest American actresses. And HBO proves once again that patient storytelling is worth the investment.
M尖锐的东西：Premieres Sunday, July 8, on HBO. Check your provider and local listings.