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HBOsSharp Objectsis the best-edited series on TV right now.
(My colleague Kathryn VanArendonk iscataloguing all of the words here.)
She leaves without blowing out the candles.
Camille is a writer, after all.
Sometimes we dont merely think.
Sometimes we also think aboutwhywe thought about something.
This is a different kind of detective work.
Its the basis of psychotherapy as well as certain forms of fiction.
But its not unprecedented.
They dont all have the same objective, of course.
This kind of storytelling is more expressive of the relationship between experiences and feelings.
It also approximates the sensation of suppressing memories, which is a huge part of the story ofSharp Objects.
Its not just about Camille refusing to face what happened to her.
Fragments of information emerge, each flash giving us another detail, another piece of context.
We dont go about our days living only in the present moment.
How fitting that the character who dispatched the heroine on her journey is an editor.
