There is a very short list of things that Camille Preaker enjoys: Tiny bottles of alcohol. Candy bars. Cigarettes. More tiny bottles of alcohol.
Her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri? Doesn’t make the cut. For Camille, Wind Gap is full of terrible memories — a fraught relationship with her cold mother, unsettling encounters with teenage boys down by the lake and, most traumatizing of all, the puzzling death of her younger sister, Marian.
But in Sunday’s premiere of Sharp Objects — HBO’s limited-series adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel — Camille (played by Oscar nominee Amy Adams) is forced to go back to Wind Gap after a young woman goes missing there, one year after another girl in the town was strangled to death. Camille, now a reporter at a St. Louis newspaper, is assigned to cover Wind Gap’s latest disappearance, which means having a reluctant reunion with her hometown and the distressing memories she’s been trying to suppress.
