Thematically interesting and brilliantly acted, but painfully slow and far too long

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

• Gillian Flynn; Sharp Objects (2006)

Although this eight-part HBO limited series has been advertised as a murder-mystery, really it's... 阅读全文。