![did amma kill mae did amma kill mae](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/044/e93/6b5e1c19100c37d2f2e8f746a2bfb99c70-05-nag.2x.h467.w700.jpg)
I know some critics have found Sharp Objects uneven, but its blend of horror, melodrama and a sprinkle of camp worked a treat for me – and it was lifted by some truly fantastic performances. That Adora took the rap for her daughter, if that was the case, was a final twisted act of love, although there was plenty of that on offer here. “It’s kind of funny how many stories they have about princesses needing to be rescued from witches,” Amma said, dressed as Persephone, knowing that it was she who had been doling out the punishments to those who got too close to her mother.
![did amma kill mae did amma kill mae](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/sharp-objects-finale-2-1535130817.jpg)
Mind you, I couldn’t see it either, which made the whole thing very pleasurable indeed. When Adora said Camille was the daughter who was most like her, perhaps she wasn’t quite seeing the wood for the trees. It was a little rushed, perhaps, but poor old Mae, befriending one of Adora’s girls the “Call Mom” written on her hand may have sealed her fate. I laughed when the big reveal finally happened, not so much at the fact that Amma was decorating her dolls’ house with children’s teeth, but at how fantastically gothic and gruesome it all turned out to be. The bleached-out, too-bright, happy-ending part soon gave way to its natural state of feel-bad drama – and the twist at end served up the rotten ending we deserved. For the final 15 minutes or so of Sharp Objects, which has been as deeply satisfying as it has been joyfully over the top, I thought it might be throwing it all away on a saccharine ending that served up redemption when we hadn’t asked for it.