Recap: Sharp Objects: Closer AKA The Annual L Celebration

Sharp Objects Season: 1 / Episode: 5: Closer / HBO Content Warning: Self-harm. It’s white pride day in Wind Gap AKA Calhoun Day AKA damn, y’all cosplaying as losers and everything…again? [deep sigh] First of all, it’s dumb because confederacy. Second of all, it’s dumb because there’s a killer among them. Remember those two dead girls? Yeah, well no one is in custody; no one has been charged; no one is safe. So, why are you throwing a party? Oh, because Adora wants to? Sounds legit. Ivory Speaking of Adora’s unyielding nature, Camille’s still trapped in her mother’s house and in her memories of the past. She wakes up to the sound of Calhoun Day tents being hoisted and tables being set up. It’s the general commotion of jovial racism disguised as tradition. Her latest article was published just that morning and Curry, her Editor, is pleased and hungry for more. Camille’s exhaustion is palpable; she wants to go home, but her sense of duty to Curry, to the dead girls, to her willingness to endure that keeps her there. On her way downstairs, Camille drops a water bottle (bet you 10 bucks there’s no water in that there bottle), and it rolls into a tiled room. Suddenly, young pixie cut Camille is standing outside the tiled room while Miriam, the sister who will die, stands a few feet away leaning on the railing. Inside the room, a photographer sets up equipment while Adora flutters about. “My mother was a Calhoun, we married into the Preakers,” she continues on, giving a history le…