Sharp Objects Recap: Falling AKA Takes One to Know One

Sharp Objects Season: 1 / Episode: 7: Falling / HBO Content Warning: Self-harm. Camille Preaker’s emotional trauma and effed up family has me all the way exhausted so I cannot fathom how she’s getting through life. I know she’s a functioning alcoholic, but I would not even be functioning. I Need a Hug When we left Camille, she was drunk, high, and passed out after some ill-advised partying with her little sister, Amma. Did I mention her dead sister’s ghost was whispering warnings into her ear as she slipped into sleep? Yeeeeeah, if I’m Camille, Imma need that Pulitzer in my actual hand if you want me to stay in Wind Gap. Cut to today: Camille is in the foyer looking at the doll house when its lights come on. Then a shadow crosses one of the doorways. The Sick Ward Camille wakes in a sleeveless (first red flag) all white angel-looking floor-length nightgown. Adora is staring at her in a way that is half menacing and half doting and 100% repulsive. Adora put the nightgown on a passed out Camille and wants desperately to help her–with her swollen and bruised ankle and fatigue. She offers her daughter honey which Camille accepts and medicine which Camille doesn’t. Intermixed with this is a flashback to younger pixie-cut Camille refusing medicine. “I need to get to work,” Camille says as she pushes Adora and her remedies away. Across town, Vickery drives past Amma’s skating minions to the gas station where he runs into Jackie who is buying her daily dose of liquor. The two exchan…