Sharp Objects Recap: Cherry

Sharp Objects Season: 1 / Episode: 6: Cherry / HBO Content Warning: Self-harm. Sharp Objects starts us off with the Camille Preaker special: a memory. She finds Amma in the hunting shed and then poof wakes up post-coital next to the pristine skin of Kansas City who, once he wakes up spends half his time trying to subtly ask why she slept in her clothes and the other half trying to convince her to go on a date with him. Rise and Shine All over Wind Gap, people are waking up. The chief’s morning follows a similar rhythm: his wife wakes him up, he pauses before a crucifix hanging on the wall, eats breakfast, and leaves. [See also the definitions of boring and sad]. Alan wakes up in a pull out couch in his study next to his vintage pin up girly mag. Adora, too, is woken up in bed by a phone call that leaves her cagey and anxious to get out of the house. After turning down a ride from Camille, Adora disappears to “go into town” and Camille is once again left with her memories of her horrible childhood. But to remind us that her family is present tense horrible, Amma makes a joke [upward inflection] about connecting some of the scratches she got on her arms in the woods to make a word. [sigh]. I hate these people. Meanwhile, in town, Kansas City finds Jackie in the alley where Natalie’s body was discovered “paying respects.” He asks about Camille—about the “episode” Adora warned him about—but her disdain for Adora is palpable and she puts him off. So, Kansas City does what all cree…