This review contains spoilers for Sharp Objects episode 2, titled “Dirt.” To refresh your memory of where we left off, check out our review of episode 1.
It’s likely telling that “Dirt” is one of just three episodes author Gillian Flynn wrote for the adaptation of her debut novel (the other two will be the final episodes of the series). The second entry takes all of the premiere’s various introductions and builds on them in ways both thrilling and quiet, allowing the author to not only cement the tone she wants to strike with this tale, but fully form several characters’ voices. After this episode, the larger mystery feels clearer, while the characters are busy emotionally challenging each other, as well as themselves. Here, Sharp Objects allows itself to enter an early groove that the rest of the series can hopefully work from.
Source: IGN.com HBO's Sharp Objects Only Gets Creepier in Episode 2