sharp objects – Musings of a Yankee Countess

I agree with what everyone is saying about Amy Adams and Eliza Scanlen being AMAZING in Sharp Objects, but I feel people around here aren’t talking about Patricia Clarkson’s performance. The way she played Adora, so bone chilling and heartless and yet also in such an eerie way, beautiful, delicate, and “sweetly commanding”. You can easily imagine her floating down the streets in a lovely dress, wearing a big hat, and smiling and waving politely to people passing by, asking after their children and acting so gracious and stately (just like her mansion), totally misleading everyone who encounters her to believe she’s sweeter than the tea they’re drinking, thus making the reality of who and what she is all the more terrifying. Even the way she knowingly concocts poisons in her kitchen is presented as graceful and soft, and if you aren’t getting chills as you watch her coo over the very daughter to whom she told previously “I never loved you”, but now fussing over Camille’s sickly state how “it was always meant to be like this”…then you need to check your pulse, because Patricia Clarkson NAILED that performance and that character in a way that no other actress I believe could, and just as Amy Adams and Eliza Scanlen deserve every accolade for their work on this show, so should Patricia Clarkson.