**_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'...