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‘Sharp Objects’ Is Not the Next ‘Big Little Lies’

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And that’s not a bad thing! Our instinct to compare the HBO dramas because they’re led by and tell stories about women does a disservice to how uniquely excellent both series are.

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Madeline and Celeste would never stand for this much sweating. They’d have fled to their Buicks and Lexuses, cranked up the A/C, and high-tailed it out of Wind Gap, Missouri, faster than a Monterey PTA mom could down a bottle of chardonnay.

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