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Sharp Objects - Season 1 Episode 04: Ripe
Story of Camille Preaker, the young woman who left her small hometown years ago after she exposed to a series of bad events there. After many years, the newspaper where she works for tasks her to go to cover a murder occur in her hometown. But she doesn't know that she is about to remember a series of bad memories.
29 September 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
27 December 1995, LaGrange, Georgia, USA
8 March 1959, Tobago
12 September 1970, Frankfort, Kentucky, USA
July 30, 2018
The choppy editing in the episode's final scene is a haunting approach to what could very well be a cheap cliffhanger. But if so, it's an admittedly effective one for this episode, even if it doesn't pay off next week.
July 30, 2018
With our sense of place established, episode four really needed to make some headway in the plot... and it eventually did just that... But the meandering build-up was both interesting and revealing.
July 30, 2018
I was thoroughly confused by that incredible last sequence, which seemed to play with time, place and intent, but I was happy to go along for the disturbing ride.
July 30, 2018
Sophia Lillis is so extraordinary in this role, rarely speaking, just registering trauma and cruelty and self-refusal in those big, still eyes, offering a young mask of stubborn composure that mirrors the one Amy Adams wears as Camille in her 30s.
July 30, 2018
Can we just talk about these people? These broken, damaged people? I'm pretty sure that they are all in a race to see who can be the worst.And if they aren't in the game itself, they're on the sidelines taking bets and talking shit.
July 31, 2018
HBO is stretching the content of a 254-page book over eight hours.
July 30, 2018
You could spend hours dissecting that closing montage.
July 30, 2018
Adora is a real piece of work.
July 30, 2018
"Ripe," may have seemed to be giving us very little by way of plot, it was actually imparting a parade float-load of information - just not in conventional ways.
January 07, 2020
It's worth sticking out, just don't expect it to be spoon-fed to you.
July 30, 2018
"Ripe" provides a few key examples of passive aggressive sentiments elevated to high art, so below IndieWire has collected the best of the lot and broken down what makes them so effective.
August 02, 2018
To typically outstanding effect, Ripe excels as more of Camille's memories bleed into the current, with a particular forest rummage providing some of the starkest, boldest, most visceral imagery to hit our screens.

