& # 39; Sharp Objects & # 39; Episode 3: Every rose has its spine

It's not hard to see what these grim and twisted female care scenes have to do with roses (and it's probably worth noting that Alice, Adora and Amma all wear printed floral at one point in the episode). "Sharp Objects" is certainly not the first story to use these flowers as a symbol of the love and harm that it causes. They are everywhere in fairy tales, from "Sleeping Beauty" to "Beauty and the Beast"; Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is the par excellence song of the hair-metal torch. Then there are the white roses in yes, "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland", that this angry matriarch the queen of hearts forces her lackeys to paint in red

All this cultural baggage weighs on the pink pattern and the episode that he imbues. But if roses as a symbol of love are clichés, their function on this show is more ambiguous, a lens through which to interpret the character. Like the rose, every woman in the Crellin-Preaker clan has its petals and thorns: Camille is pungent but psychologically fragile. Adora is the ideal southern patrician until someone challenges her. Amma is sweet and gentle at home but cruel and rebellious in the outside world. So when "Sharp Objects" warns us about roses, which of his characters does he really tell us to pay attention to?

Reporter's Note:

• This week in hidden words: "Deprecate", I spotted "faith" on a candle at the shrine of Natalie and Camille carving "fix" in his wrist. But the most telling word is probably "baby," printed on the side of a building that Camille drives by pricking, just after her mother chased her out of the Nash home.

• In the other sides of the "News" buildings, I continue to notice giant, smiling white faces on the exteriors of the Wind Gap buildings, they seem to date back to the middle of the 20th century, and they create the impression of 39, a city that lives under the watchful eye of American archetypes of the 1950s. Particularly troubling – not to mention the themes this week – is the woman who offers "nourishing meat." The Crellins possess, well Sure, the hog farm, which also complicates the opening scene of the episode, chasing a pig like Amma, John Keene and several other young townspeople do.

• What is the deal with Alan He hardly speaks, he and Adora do not share a bedroom (a preference that seems to be his alone) and he always listens to music with headphones. of worry tr shower his face, but we have no idea what is going on in his head.

• Camille's interview with John and his girlfriend, Ashley, is more than odd: Ashley's apparent desperation to prove his innocence, which amounts to giving him a false alibi; his cheerleading uniform; His concern is that he hates Wind Gap, even though it is the place where he met her. Last week we heard her after the funeral, claiming to have special knowledge about Natalie, whom she seems to have despised.

• Two dialogues came to me about women and gossip: Vickery tells Camille: A boy from Kansas City [Willis] speaks like a Wind Gap woman. "And Bob Nash rejects the idea that a woman has killed girls because, he says," women here, they do not kill with their hands – they talk and you're dead. "