Sharp Objects Recap: Fix

Season: 1 / Episode: 3, Fix / HBO Content Warning: Descriptions of self-harm. This week’s episode of Sharp Objects, written by Alex Metcalf and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, upped the intensity compared to last episode–which I thought was impossible. But here we are. And here go… Not One of Mine The good old boys and girls of Wind Gap are out in the woods…chasing pigs. Literally. They’re getting drunk and chasing pigs. Of course Amma is there, bottle in hand, talking shit to John Keene. By talking, I mean yelling across the pig-chasing field as John and his girlfriend Ashley Wheeler sit, near pariahs, in the back of a pick up truck. Before, Amma can antagonize John into action, Chief Vickery breaks up the good time with his silence, lights, and presence. He sends Wind Gap’s finest home, or at least someplace else. Camille Preaker is at home working on her next article when her drunken little sister drives a golf cart into Adora’s prized rosebushes. Camille hurries outside to get the girl before their mother sees her (which leaves me to wonder what Amma’s dumb ass did before Camille was forced to come back home). The two go upstairs so that Amma can ramble about how bored she is, how much her friends love her, and, most notably, how she is not a nice person. Noted, Amma. Then she tries to needle Camille. First questioning her interest in the two dead girls, then questioning her desire for a boyfriend and babies. There is an oddness to the way the sisters interact; Amma fo…