Spoilers below for Sharp Objects S1.06 — Cherry

Sharp Objects S1.06 — Cherry

Amma’s 13-year old life is very different than mine was. This girl is wasted every night, popping Molly, and doing Oxy like it’s no big deal in eighth grade. Plus, the way they portray Amma & her friends versus Natalie & Ann (the girls who were murdered), it’s like they are years apart, when really they were all the same age.

While I understand that Natalie & Ann were losers and Amma is, of course, the opposite, it’s still wild how wild her life is in comparison. It makes it hard for me to place Ann & Natalie. Ann’s bike had flowers on the seat and Amma really enjoys yellow flowers when she’s high out of her mind.

This episode moves Amma & Camille’s relationship forward, but probably not in the healthiest way. As the girls party together, Amma becomes closer to her sister, going as far as to ask her if she could come back to St. Louis with Camille. But, the Camille that lives in St. Louis is very different than her Wind Gap counterpart and I don’t think she’s ready for be a mother to this wild child.

Meanwhile, Adora has had her fill of her eldest daughter and asks Alan to get rid of her. Alan does not succeed because he has not accomplished one task this entire show. He is merely there so that Adora has someone to talk to in her scenes. He tried to get Camille to act more compassionately towards her mother by explaining that Adora’s mother (Camille’s grandmother) used to pinch Adora in the night because she was “worried she would die in her sleep.” Based on the way Adora treated Camille, it’s understandable she had trouble finding sympathy.

We also learn that there might have been a bit of a darker side to Natalie Keene, as evident by the bite marks on John’s girlfriend’s ear (I can never remember her name). When probed, she tells Camille to ask her mother about Natalie & Ann. I’m pretty sure that won’t work out well.

But most importantly in this episode, we have a break in the case! They unearth Ann’s bike from the swamp of pig shit right by Adora’s pig farm. And, one of the workers at the farm said that he saw John Keene throw it in there. As Camille said, why would someone hide the bike in a shallow swamp unless they were stupid or framing someone?

Let’s see if Dan thinks the case is closed.

Yes. There’s only 2 episodes left and there’s always a long epilogue of a whole episode where she goes back to St. Louis and everyone hi-fives her. We only have one episode left where they arrest John Keene.

You don’t think the girls had anything to do with it?

No, they probably actually did. I’m just being annoying. Which is just like the show: the only mystery is that people won’t actually tell anyone anything. They just give each other half a tidbit and then tell them they should talk to a different character. There’s only so many more times that I can tolerate, “you should go ask your mother about that.”

Well, looks like Dan’s frustrated. Is anyone else? I’m still enjoying the show.