They died at almost exactly the same time, about a year after Camille was born. Also Read: 'Sharp Objects' Showrunner Says No to Season 2: 'This Is It'. Viewers of the TV adaptation find out Camille (Amy Adams) is a cutter, who has marks covering nearly her whole body at the end of the premiere episode -- but it takes readers about 60 pages to get to that revelation. But then in high school, girls were like, So, I hear you dance." He finishes the anecdote with a quirk of his eyebrow. Luckily for the insatiably curious, the original source material offers very clear-cut answers to everything that jaw-dropping finale left out. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. Also Read: Sharp Objects': Eliza Scanlen on Playing Amy Adams Rebellious Little Sister With Balls (Video). Have you watched these big hits on HBO Max, Disney+, Netflix, and more? Editing, a strength of the series throughout, guides viewers through to the final surprise. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. At the same time, aided by information from Camille, Richard discovers the truth about Marian. Thing is, after everything he said and did at the motel, nothing would have worked out. Read more about the Calhoun Day episode over here. But I would be open. Camille overhears a weird exchange between John and Amma at the pool in the same episode, which is almost identical to how it happens in the book. There are murders at the center of the narrative, but Camille's experiences with sex, power, and consent offer up much of the tension. But for half the year, Persephone's mother Demeter is able to bring her back to the world of the living. And he just walks away? In all other cases of repeated variations of scenes throughout the series (e.g. There was only one book, and no one ever expressed to me where it would go. I think we were really committed to really doing the book justice, and it is a whodunit. Camille remains as convinced of her bodys ability to repel as she was before. Lately, Ive been leaning towards kindness.. Finally, as the credits end, there's one brief shot of Amma in a white dress. Id like to think that she and John go on to have a happy, healthy and loving relationship. A deeply hungover Camille wakes up in her room with a nightgown on. 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. Tips on how to get past it, Twitter alternative Bluesky Social is now in the App Store, Elon Musk signals interest in creating a 'based' answer to ChatGPT, Elon Musk defends 'Dilbert' creator after racist rant, tweets media 'racist against whites', Motorola's rollable concept phone shows foldables aren't the only way forward, It's time to put 'The Bachelor' out to pasture, Warner Bros. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched "Falling," the penultimate episode of "Sharp Objects." The characters in "Sharp Objects" are all hiding se And Richard doesnt metaphorically break down the door to discover where his lover has been secreted. Gillian Flynn insists she never even considered changing the ending of Sharp Objects to shock faithful readers who had tuned in to the show. from Mashable that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. Camille accepts that the pills and mysterious milky medicine may hurt her, but she also knows that Richard will be coming by. Noxon told TheWrap that the decision to end the show's story there was because she and the writers wanted to "convey the emotional experience of reading the book and, to me, the book ended there.". And here is where the ending of the show really whisks away a chance at Camilles redemption or possible slide into the family disease. 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. If you didn't watch through the credits, you missed a crucial detail. Amma apparently wrapped herself in a white sheet, powdered her whole face white, and got Natalie to follow her by telling her it was all part of a game. As Camille spends more time in Wind Gap, she realizes that her half-sister, Amma, whom her mother clothes in frilly dresses and who seems to still enjoy playing with her dollhouse, is actually quite wild, rollerblading around town with her friends in the dark to drink and carouse. The book ends on a much more depressing note for Camille. And we were trying to convey the emotional experience of reading the book, and to me the book ended there. As the final image in the credits scene reveals: Yes, the woman in white that little James Caprisi claims to have seen luring Natalie away into the woods was totally real. Also Read: Sharp Objects': Showrunner Marti Noxon Says Calhoun Day Started Out as a Joke. They started asking questions about me being sick. And they started to ask prying questions about why Amma was sick all the time. And even if you did, you may have been a bit confused as to what, exactly, was being shown there. Instead, its Camille who later visits Amma in prison, where she asks for the answers we never get in the show. Well, not outside of pop psych.). This disease means that Adora thrives off the attention gained from tending to sick people, and to that end shes been poisoning Amma (Eliza Scanlen). She continued to say that their goal was to age her "only about a year older, 14 maybe nearing 15? "I got beat up a lot [as a boy] because I danced," he says. And his temperament." I guess we all do at some point in our lifenot belonging or not being around your people. However, this presents an odd discrepancy. Youre a cutter? There is no apology in the hospital room, no soft parting. (The show itself also plays with words, hiding messages throughout each episode throughout the entire season.). I liked the idea that Camille had been through so much shit and trauma that nice normal men like Richard felt like an entirely different species, who would turn away if they knew the extent of her darkness. Meryl Streep is joining the cast of 'Big Little Lies'. So shes still walking that crazy line between trying to emulate Adora, literally by murdering, but also by not having the emotional capacity to do it with any subtlety or even deal with the consequences. Id follow them to the moon. The End Of 'Sharp Objects' Is Even Creepier Than You Could Have Guessed. 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. Alan sells the house for a place closer to the prison, and writes to his still-beloved wife on the days he can't visit her in person. Amma explains that she had actually been friends with Natalie and Ann for a while, the three of them running wild around the woods and hurting animals together. Here, we explain the entire ending and what happens to Camille and the Preaker family. They wake her and put her to bed with kisses. Eileen runs her baths and brushes her hair. 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. They tricked Ann by telling her that Adora (who had taken to tutoring the girl) wanted to see her, then lured her into the woods with the promise of a tea party first. But Camille gets Amma's reasoning directly from the horse's mouth when she visits her in prison in the book. That little monster. ", Richard discovers the truth about Marian -- not Camille. He walks in, standard operating procedure, warrant in hand. Despite the fact that she's only written a few novels, Flynn has made a name for herself with sharply crafted, twisting thrillers, including her 2006 debut, Sharp Objects. And then on seeing how wrong he was when he saw her scars, he probably couldn't even face himself. 2023 Vox Media, LLC. 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. One thing we learn about Camille's backstory is her history with alcoholism and self harm and that she at one point checked herself into rehab. With that said, Camille has a "secret weapon" up her sleeve alcohol. The TV ending had more closure and hope but I preferred the book ending to their relationship and the cruel lack of resolution. Perhaps Alan (Henry Czerny) gave a helping hand. Even though she keeps most of her clothes onas we discovered in the blocking of it, you cant really have sex withoutsomething has to come off. A defiant Amma shows off her wild side to Camille, but Adora admonishes Camille for meddling in the investigation and a town in mourning. *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. "Im embarrassed to say I was stupid and nave and blind to anything like that," he says. It was something of a bittersweet goodbye, and I think it worked well. Thats what Richards up against," he explains at ELLE.com's offices. Meanwhile, Bob and John are more than happy to point fingers at each other, each accusing the other man of the murders, while Camille discovers that there's unexpected bad blood between John and the Preaker women (Amma spread nasty rumors about John, which led to Adora firing him from her hog factory). 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. Amma cant bring herself to turn on her mother because she got her own sick enjoyment out of the attention that accompanied the fevers and vomiting and days in bed. This might be a pattern of his. 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. She never sees him again after he comes in and discovers her in a robe, asking (not very subtly), Whats wrong with you? She's bunkmates with a young girl named Alice, who Camille empathizes with -- and who introduces her to several rock classics. The story follows Camille, played by Amy Adams, who is tasked with returning to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to report on the murders of two young girls named Ann Nash and Natalie Keene. "He feels like a very classically female character in that way. They take care of her in the kind of purely nurturing and loving way Adora never could. After Amma bullies Camille and inadvertently reveals her many scars to Adora, she tries to make things right with Camille, eventually inviting her to a party. The HBO adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects novel is faithful to the source material in the best way. In the book, she says it was the first time she'd been with anyone in 10 years. 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. I could see him trying to reach out to Camille after he heard about Amma. 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. The final minutes of Sunday's Sharp Objects finale tell us exactly who is responsible for the deaths of Ann Nash and Natalie Keene, the gone girls whose murders act as the catalyst for . We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Camille, having briefly escaped her mother's clutches, goes out to search for John Keene, who's the subject of a police manhunt. But while Camille is obsessed with her rock playlist -- and carries that cracked iPod with her everywhere -- there's no mention of her musical preferences in the book. A reluctant part of Camille's personal nostalgia tour in this episode: attending that "Pity Party"at Katie Lacey's house, wherein the former cheerleading squad all gets together to watch . This recontextualizes the ending and positions Amma not as a lone sociopath, but the leader of a pack of sociopaths so to speak. When Richard apologizes this is another variation of a "repeated" scene, but unlike prior repeats in the series, Camille reacts differently. Amma kills her new bestie when she thinks Camille likes her better than her little sister, and Camille finds some of Lily's hair in the dollhouse, alongside those teeth. Covering Rammsteins Du Hast in Berlin. However, there's one more twist to go. But if you didnt watch the Sharp Objects credits, then you missed the reveal that Amma had help. But there is also just the reality that this is a tough team to assemble and I think it would be pretty impossible to do it again (laughs). Busy Phillips Is Not Like a Regular Mom, Shes a Cool Mom, Theres nothing wrong with Busy Phillips being cast as Mrs. George in the upcoming, In Search of Tom and Katies Bubba Painting, Maybe punting on the larger plot can be forgiven if we get a sweet. However, Camille has other ideas. So to end it sort of calling back to Adora felt like the original ending for this mystery. We're not straying from spoilers in here. While that ending is probably enough to disturb you for years to come, Flynns debut novel closed a little differently. Valles choice of ending is killer (pun intended), and while its a bit odd to somewhat hide that crucialinformation in the credits, concluding the story on Ammas final line is kind of too good to resist. He's the creator and author of Collider's "How the MCU Was Made" series and has interviewed Bill Hader about every single episode of Barry. With the ramifications of the finale, there would be other things to tell. He is seeing her and her sister, in the hospital, both poisoned by their psychopathic mother. When you consider the number of themes that repeat themselves over time in the series, this scene actually pops out as a big breakthrough moment for Camille. They were notorious for bouts of aggression. As Camille and Amma wake up with brutal hangovers after their night out, Adora supplies "medicine" for both of them, which makes them feel worse. Probably almost all of it at that age. Adora, who has Munchausen syndrome by proxy a mental disorder where you sicken your loved ones poisoned Marian over the years, and one day, she gave her daughter too large of a dose. "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. HBOs excellent miniseries adaptation of Gillian Flynns Sharp Objects has at last come to an end, but not without one last surprise. After some thought, Camille realizes that Marian was cremated all those years ago so that nobody would suspect Adora of any wrongdoing and would instead simply pity her as a bereaved mother. Did you leave clues for fans to find if they go back for a second viewing, now that they know Amma is the killer? Theres a lot of talk about myth and fantasy and how that can influence towns, and your story versus your truth, Noxon said. When you work with [director] Jean-Marc Valle and Amy Adams, its hard to know what to do next because its really top-tier stuff. And there was so much more that I wanted to know about the other part. 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. (There's no such thing as closure. The police and people of Wind . ", Also Read: Sharp Objects Star Eliza Scanlen Portraits (Exclusive Photos). The most detail Camille ever gets about her father is in a spiteful insult from Adora during the dress shopping scene. Also Read: Sharp Objects Finale: Marti Noxon Explains the Final Line and Why They Cut the Ending Off Early, When Camille's cutting is revealed on screen vs. to the reader. In the years since, she's done the same thing with Amma, slowly dosing her whenever she doesn't feel well with medicine that only makes Amma sicker. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Im sure you work really hard. ", Also Read: Sharp Objects Finale: Breaking Down Those Chilling Post-Credits Scenes. While a smaller detail, in the book, Camille lives in Chicago, not St. Louis. He is there to solve the case. But Adora had no direct involvement with the murders. I agree. She addedthat was the moment the reader really get[s] the story of what these sharp objects have done to her, and so she knew she wanted to replicate it on screen. Jackie heavily implies in the book that, like Adora, Joya also had munchausen by proxy (or what she calls being "overly mothered"), and often made her own daughter sick. For years, she's been carving words that trigger her into her body, including "vanish," "cherry," and "fornicate." Eh, maybe he walked away because he knew he wasn't up to it and didn't want to drag it out, make things worse. He lives in Tulsa, OK and likes pasta, 90s thrillers, and spending like 95% of his time with his dog Luna. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Of course, there were a few notable changes made to the story in its translation to the screen. The SAG Awards are this weekend, but where can you stream the show? But in the book, Adora's (Patricia Clarkson) husband feels far more distant and much less sympathetic. But this didnt really make a whole lot of sense. I waver between the two, especially at night, when my skin begins to pulse. After Richard's expository and apologetic hospital . And don't say we didn't warn you about those darker differences. Unless we're counting those violent flashes in the finale's post-credits scenes, viewers don't find out how Amma took those young girls' lives. 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. In the midst of all of this, Camille strikes up an unlikely romance with Richard, the detective in charge of the murder case. Camille, having briefly escaped her mother's clutches, goes out to search for John Keene, who's the subject of a police manhunt. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. 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. So the legends are true. HBO. 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