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    Sharp Objects S01E04 Review: Ripe – A creeping unease spreads throughout this episode

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    | July 30, 2018
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    Tonight, Camille takes Richard on a tour of Wind Gap’s most infamous locales. It is, in one word, depressing. This is a bad town.

    The first place Camille takes him is a clearing in the woods where two women died. There was no murder weapon there, so the nature of their deaths still isn’t clear. I mean, they were killed with a knife, but the knife was never found. Yet the general town consensus is suicide.

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    The next place she shows him is the “End Zone,” wherein the football team would “have their way” with upcoming cheerleaders. Richard tells her that sounds a lot like rape, which makes Camille bristle. I understand that she wants to assert her agency, but this is also supposed to be a tour of crime scenes. It counts.

    She then shows him the awful shed with its moldering porn pin-ups, which is apparently where Ann and Natalie used to play. Something in Camille’s face prompts Richard to ask if something happened to her there. Camille is full of secrets, but although this is supposed to be an information exchange, she won’t say. It would be funny how she shies away from emotional intimacy right before making things real physically intimate if it weren’t so sad.

    But this is the way of Wind Gap. Information is currency, so you’d better hoard as much as you can, and that’s what Camille is doing. In place of her mother, who’s mooning about with a superficial hand injury, Camille meets with the ladies who lunch. They share their theories about who killed the girls, but it’s the same ol’ gossip Camille has already heard. Like, maybe John Keene killed Ann, then killed his own sister to cover it up. Or vice versa.

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    Camille, however, isn’t the only one gathering information. Returning home after her tour with Richard, she kisses him in the front yard. This prompts the scene from which we get this week’s episode title–Adora, having seen the kiss, tells her daughter, “You smell ripe.” It’s a comment layered with meaning. On the surface, when you say that, you mean someone or something stinks. But it’s hard not to read into it, to see Adora weaponizing Camille’s sexuality against her. That’s the way of Wind Gap, after all.

    And Adora would know because she’s weaponized her own. She also has a strange time with a man this week, specifically Vickery. They have a woozy chat that seems close to flirty, while Alan is left to serve the two of them drinks. Vickery is concerned about the upcoming town history celebration–he wants to cancel it in light of the murdered children. Since the girls weren’t taken from large gatherings, it’s not hard to speculate that maybe he just doesn’t want to be confronted by so many people when he hasn’t solved the crimes yet.

    Either way, Adora lets him know his place. And that place is easily discarded. Speaking of, it’s funny that we talked about what was going on in Alan’s head last week because he gives us a clue this week. Specifically, he rails at Adora and the way she makes everything about her, including Marian’s death, as if he hadn’t lost a child, too. He may still be kind of a blurry outline to us, but he could be dangerous.

    That’s the word, of course, that Vickery uses in his conversation with Adora about her children. One of them is dangerous and one of them is in danger. He’s so desperate to find something on Camille or as he calls her to Jackie, “the Preaker girl,” that he’s taking his eyes off the road. That’s where the real danger is.

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    Information is power, but Vickery isn’t looking in the right places. He’s formed opinions and is looking for facts to fit them. Camille, who may be the worst reporter on television–as not a journalist, I have no opinion either way–is skilled in just listening and letting people tell her their secrets. So when John tells her that Ann and Natalie would sometimes go at each other like wildcats, with only Amma to separate them, it’s a revelation. After all, this is a bad town and young girls have often been in the crosshairs here. So Camille races home, where Amma’s room is empty. We know what she does not–Amma is out there on the road. And that’s the last shot we’re left with: Amma, alone, where the danger is.

    9/10 – While the languid pace and dreamy storytelling style may not be for everyone, I have enjoyed the way the show is unfolding its mysteries. This isn’t Twin Peaks, but there’s something not right about Wind Gap and a creeping unease spreads throughout this episode. Of course, this is all standard Southern Gothic stuff, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t great. Even if it ain’t the South.

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    surfari
    surfari
    4 years ago

    Wind Gap is so twisted. I don’t remember the book having so many Southern Gothic elements. Is that just for the show or am I remembering it wrong? (Great Simpsons clip, by the way.)

    The scene with Adora and Vickery was really interesting. It shows how power plays are handled in Wind Gap and I’m sure that it’s not a completely inaccurate portrayal of a small town…a corrupt small town at least.

    I still feel like they haven’t even chipped the surface of Amma. Her character is super interesting and I can’t wait until they reveal some more about her.

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    Salome G
    Salome G
    4 years ago
    Reply to  surfari

    I don’t remember the book leaning so heavily on the Southern Gothic.

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    MidNight
    MidNight
    4 years ago
    Reply to  surfari

    I’m trying to see if Amma has the possibility of being the culprit (because everyone in Wind Gap is suspicious). The extreme differences in her personality show mental distress, but I’m not sure if she’s capable of killing. At least she seems a more probable choice than John and Ashley.

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    callmeishmael
    4 years ago

    As much as I enjoy watching this show, these slow-burner types make me so impatient.

    “Ripe” is such an interesting word choice here. I took it to mean the two possibilities that you mentioned, but it feels like it’s even more layered than that.

    We get to see some more of Alan and I’m just as confused as I was before, if not more so. Someone pointed out that in the scene where Camille bites Richard’s shoulder, there’s a flash to Alan’s hand with what looks like bite scars. Did anyone else notice that? I need to rewatch.

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    surfari
    surfari
    4 years ago
    Reply to  callmeishmael

    Maybe by “ripe” she means that she’s ready for something. Camille is really vulnerable at that point. Maybe she meant that she was “ripe” for some manipulation or some twisted game she has up her sleeve.

    I didn’t notice that. That’s interesting though. He was unsettling this episode…in a way that I haven’t seen him be before.

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    MidNight
    MidNight
    4 years ago

    I can’t agree more with your title. The slow pace of the revelations is scary on its own in addition to the uneasy content. There are many things in this episode that I want to be explored further (those local stories are so interesting), but I’m mostly thinking about the blood under John’s bed and what Ashley did to it. Any theories?

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    4 years ago
    Reply to  MidNight

    It seemed like she was cleaning it up for him. Why it was there in the first place and why she would clean it up are mysteries to me. She seems desperate to cling to him while he seems pretty disinterested.

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    surfari
    surfari
    4 years ago
    Reply to  callmeishmael

    Yeah, she bleached it, right? I don’t know why she would do it other than to try and cover for John who she might believe is actually guilty. What other motive could there be?

    She does seem desperate but I think he’s only disinterested in her right now. He’s going through a lot. I think she’s just trying to help/distract him in whatever way she can.

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    MidNight
    MidNight
    4 years ago
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    Yes, she did. Years of watching mystery/thriller series teach me that what we believe is true will usually get a crazy twist later. John and Ashley’s gestures scream that they know a thing or two about the accident, but at least they don’t seem to be the culprit.

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    Salome G
    Salome G
    4 years ago
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    Knowing mystery/thrillers as I do, it’ll probably turn out to be something completely unrelated, like a freak accident.

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