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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Sharp Objects: Big Little Gone Girls
 
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DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

 I love this so far, I'm a big fan of the Gone Girl movie, and I can feel both that and lots of my mom's tiny midwestern hometown in this movie. Patricia Clarkson is fantastic, and obviously Amy Adams.

edit: ok i see what this show is now, it's a really traditional noir, but with a journalist instead of a detective

edit: watching Gone Girl after watching the first couple episodes is such a weird jump. There are so many similarities between the two but how they're laid out is drastically different. The dialogue in particular is striking, makes Sharp Objects' noir trappings all the more obvious.

DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jul 16, 2018

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DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

The Dave posted:

Yeah Camille was one of the cheerleaders that got raped by the football team, and it happened in that shed. When she finds out Amma hangs out at the shed she freaks out and hallucinates finding a toothless Amma there.

The dad was alluding to having sex with Adora all episode and it seemed like he got enough drunk persuasion to go in and initiate.

it's clearly the dad who did it right? I've never read the book and have no idea what's gonna happen over the next few episode but it seems to me that a sexually frustrated man married to that woman (who seems to be having an affair with the police chief?) who creepily stalks all over his house hiding his emotions needs some sort of outlet, and why not murder his daughters friends at that creepy-rear end hunting shack full of porn

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DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Calico Heart posted:

Hello all

I’m currently working on a video about why the idea of the “killed girl” is so popular in television. What I mean exactly is a story that focuses on a teenage girl in an idyllic/quaint/unsuspecting small town that is killed or vanishes, this brining the secrets of the town to light. The girl is almost always beautiful and also almost always presented as being “pure” - prom queen, virgin, charity work, good grades etc. Examples of this include Twin Peaks, The Killing, Bordertown and Wind River.

This is not meant to put down the individual pieces of media, just to talk about the phenomena. Would anyone in this thread know of any more examples of this trope? I haven’t had the chance to see it yet, but it sounds like Sharp Objects might fit the bill

real life, yo

This girl went missing in Iowa a couple weeks ago and her face is now everywhere, in her hometown and the college town where she went to school. it kinda reminds me of both Sharp Objects and Gone Girl to an extent, but also every other story of a pretty white girl going missing

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