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T10 WHATS UP! July 8 - 14, 2018 lead investigator, Det. Richard Willis (Chris Messina, "The Mindy Project"), but more of- ten than not, alone. The boozy nights help with her ever- growing sense of paranoia but trigger painful recollections of her sister Marian's (Lulu Wil- son, "Annabelle: Creation," 2017) mysterious death. Through a series of flash- backs, we grow to understand why Preaker is the way she is, and why she still holds such hostile feelings for her home- town, her socialite mother and her half-sister, Amma (Eliza Scanlen, "Home and Away"). Wind Gap is extremely tight- lipped for a reason, and throughout the series, viewers are pulled further into the small-town secrets, mysteries and anguish. Last year, HBO struck gold with its wildly popular adapta- tion of "Big Little Lies." The series garnered rave reviews and tons of buzz. This sum- mer, the network will try to replicate its success by follow- ing the same formula: a trendy, well-known novel, big name talent and a celebrated auteur/ director in Jean-Marc Vallée ("Dallas Buyers Club," 2013). After his excellent work on "Lies," it's easy to see why he was once again tasked with bringing a heavy and dark novel to the small screen. We are living in a glorious era of small-screen book adap- tations. In the past, Hollywood bigwigs believed that the go-to medium was the big screen, yet the tide has turned in re- cent years; some stories are just better suited for television (last year's "The Dark Tower" didn't get the memo). Origi- nally envisioned as a feature film, "Sharp Objects" was re- tooled into a multi-hour series in order to better understand Preaker's character. Adams discussed this at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, explaining that "Ca- mille needed to be explored over eight episodes. To try to do that in 90 minutes to 120 tops would have been really tricky. The internal mono- logue of Camille is almost im- possible to capture in a 90-minute story." Not everything is what it seems. Small towns harbor big secrets, and family feuds burn bright while townsfolk look the other way. This is the world in which Camille Preaker was raised, and the world she thought she had es- caped. In the years she's been gone, things have only gotten worse. Embrace the darkness, follow the clues and get lost in the twists and turns with the television event of the summer, "Sharp Objects," premiering Sunday, July 8, on HBO. Amy Adams as seen in "Sharp Objects" continued from page T2 Into the fire: A crime reporter is drawn home in 'Sharp Objects' TV FEATURE