Camille Preaker, the antihero of “Sharp Objects,” HBO’s slow-burn, Ozark Gothic thriller, is an undeniably awful journalist. Throughout the season ― the finale aired Sunday ― Camille never fit neatly into the usual tropes forced upon on-screen lady reporters. It would have been easy for the show to use this scene to frame Camille as pushy or out of line. The premise of “Sharp Objects” is that Camille’s way too emotionally involved editor-therapist, Frank Curry (Miguel Sandoval), sends her back to her ghostly hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to report on a possible killer of teenage girls. But along the way, the show also reveals some messy truths about journalism: Sometimes the job looks a bit like harassment.

Source: Huffington Post August 27, 2018 16:17 UTC