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: Based on Stephen King's novel, it explores a mother's extreme actions to protect her daughter from an abusive father, which later complicates their own relationship.

: A raw look at severe physical, sexual, and emotional abuse inflicted by a mother on her daughter. Psychological Context in Media

Learning to provide for oneself what the mother could not.

In HBO's Sharp Objects, that cycle is the thesis of the entire show. A textbook example is when Adora (Patricia Clarkson) tells he... Medium·Katie Calautti