There are so many things I could spend hours praising about Sharp Objects. To start with, Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson's phenomenal acting had me agog at the end of each of the miniseries' eight episodes. As Camille Preaker, Adams gets gritty in a way we haven't really seen her before, casually swigging vodka as she drives around town late at night and literally slicing herself open to cope with the pain she's endured at the hands of her mother. Gillian Flynn's gritty, twisted story was expertly adapted, and the HBO drama's realistic depiction of mental illness and all the horrific ways human beings choose to cope is stunning.