allmotorfunctions:

violence against women on tv is so ubiquitous that throughout this run i’ve seen comment after comment that camille’s scars weren’t effective enough, that adora’s mbp wasn’t explored in depth, that we didn’t SEE any of the killing therefore its impact is lessened. and it’s just… idk. it ignores that irregardless of having to experience it (as in, the violence is explicitly shown to us the way alice’s story was), it’s all still there.

camille might not be cutting herself throughout, but she willfully and deliberately drives drunk everywhere, feeding into her passive suicidal ideation. her costume choices tell us she’s in constant fear and anxiety of being exposed. her memory is a mess, her blindspots wide and constant. we figure things out before she does because we can rewind and pause and come back and find all the words thrown at us. camille cannot. her character, from the start, was in shambles. but instead of focusing on her pain (instead of empathizing with her clear and present and continous plight), there are legit articles out there about what a terrible reporter she is. because obviously this is a show about journalistic integrity.

sharp objects is about all kinds of violence towards women, against them and the violence they inflict on each other, including extreme physical torture, but instead of visually and narratively focusing on that extreme physical violence it goes for the banality of evil. for the generational, interpersonal and social violence in every moment, in every step, in every action, all of it through camille.

there are shows that glory in the depth of the main male character, and often times they are staring at a naked female corpse, and we know nothing about that victim. when we learn about them, it’s not to know them, it’s to decipher the genius of the typically male killer. a killer who is most often shown to despise women because of their mother. what their mother did to them. how evil they were. do we learn why the mother became that way? no, all that matters is that it made the psycho who aesthetically pleasingly displays his female victims to justify his pain.

i guess what i’m trying to say is: if u needed to see that extreme physical violence. if it had to be explicit and bloody and shown to you. fucking reexamine why, because it certainly isn’t because sharp objects dropped the ball there.