Movie Review: The Woman In The Window 👩🏻‍🦰🪟

The Woman in the Window disappoints with a lacklustre plot twist.

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Amy Adams stars as Anna Fox in The Woman in the Window. CREDIT: Netflix

This post for The Woman in the Window is spoiler-free.

Delayed multiple times since 2019, The Woman in the Window (2021, directed by Joe Wright) is based on the novel of the same name by author A. J. Finn aka Daniel Mallory, and follows an agoraphobic child psychologist Anna Fox (Amy Adams) who claims she witnessed her neighbour (Julianne Moore) being murdered from her window.

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TV Review: Sharp Objects “Milk” S01E08 🍼

It’s the end of the murder mystery, and the killer is…

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Eliza Scanlen stars as Amma Crellin in Sharp Objects. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Sharp Objects “Milk” contains spoilers.

In the finale episode “Milk” (2018), the killer of Ann Nash and Natalie Keene is finally revealed to audiences.

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TV Review: Sharp Objects “Falling” S01E07 😷

Slowly, but surely, Sharp Objects is pointing us in the right direction of the killer.

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Patricia Clarkson stars as Adora Crellin in Sharp Objects. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Sharp Objects “Falling” contains spoilers.

Everything in this episode heightened next week’s finale for me. I can’t wait to see the big reveal of the killer.

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TV Review: Sharp Objects “Cherry” S01E06 🍒

In yet another episode of Sharp Objects, we see more character growth but no story.

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Eliza Scanlen stars as Amma Crellin in Sharp Objects. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Sharp Objects “Cherry” contains minor spoilers.

In many ways, this show probably isn’t best suited for an audience member like me, as I’m impatient when it comes to dealing with a slow paced narrative. Sharp Objects, like many other HBO TV series, is good at keeping the audiences waiting.

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TV Review: Sharp Objects “Closer” S01E05 👒

“Closer” is all about Amma getting the attention she craves.

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Adora (Patricia Clarkson), Amma (Eliza Scanlen), and Camille (Amy Adams) (left to right) at a clothing store. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Sharp Objects “Closer” contains minor spoilers.

It is Calhoun Day in Wind Gap, and the town people are invited to celebrate what seems like an offensive fictional holiday at Adora’s front yard. There isn’t any new development for the show’s mystery; but there is new character development for Camille and Amma.

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TV Review: Sharp Objects “Ripe” S01E04 💪🏻

Camille Preaker stans Kelly Clarkson, and I’m all for it.

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Camille (Amy Adams) (left) and John Keene (Taylor John Smith) (right) on Sharp Objects “Ripe”. CREDIT: HBO

This post for Sharp Objects “Ripe” contains spoilers, and spoiler discussion from the original novel by author Gillian Flynn.

Camille may have grown up in the small town of Wind Gap, but I’m glad to know she’s familiar with Kelly Clarkson. She says, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” while talking on the phone with her editor Frank Curry. Well… or that line could just be a total coincidence and I might be reading too much into it.

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