In Sunday night's episode, "Dirt," Amma, sweet and volatile Amma, obedient and hard-drinking Amma, continues to be a funhouse mirror of a teenage girl.
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Adora has already told Amma that Camille's the dangerous one, and Amma seems young and vulnerable.
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She jumps in the car and the scene flashes from Amma rollerblading, to Amma lying on the floor of the shack with all her teeth pulled out, to Amma being caught, alone, in bright headlines.
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A too-sweet montage of Camille and Amma shows Amma settling into Camille's apartment, even making friends with a neighbor girl named Mae (Iyana Halley).
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The room had a bed, a desk, a stool, a wastebin, and two framed pictures on the wall: Amma as a child, and Amma as a grown woman.
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Amma transforms docility into a dare to underestimate her Ultimately, the diseases afflicting Adora and Amma and even Camille aren't just psychopathy, Munchausen by proxy, and compulsive self-harm.
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While Camille waits in a dressing room to try on clothes, her original clothes disappear (Amma is the culprit), and she's left in her underwear while Adora and Amma wait outside.
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Adora and Amma learned to weaponize their femininity While Adora and Amma misdirect their anger over the confines of their gender roles at other women, Camille turns her violent rage onto herself.
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Not only that, but Amma was also friends with Ann.
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And she wants me like this," Amma bites back. "This.
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Did Alan help Amma or Adora kill Ann and Natalie?
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We've seen Amma in each of these states, multiple times.
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In the letter John says he'd suspected Amma all along.
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It's clear from all of this that Amma loves murder.
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Amma asks Camille if she can go back to St. Louis with her, and we finally know why Adora feels threatened by Camille — she's terrified Amma will like her more, and steal her away.
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And probably there's plenty of reluctant love there for Amma, too.
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She introduced subsidized canteens, for instance, that were called Amma Canteens.
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Amma, despite all her wealth and popularity, still ultimately feels powerless.
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Camille doesn't know it, but this is her half-sister Amma.
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She can't handle getting close to Amma and losing her, too.
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Adora and Alan then had two daughters together, Marian and Amma.
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We now know why Amma killed Mae and her other victims.
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As Camille gets sicker, she urges Amma to escape the house.
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It's official: Amma Crellin (Eliza Scanlen) is the Sharp Objects killer.
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Nightcaps: - Amma won't let her mother, or Camille touch her dollhouse.
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The only dry thing in all India that night was Amma.
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"I can't wait to get out of here," Amma tells Camille.
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Amma turns on her skates, freezes and stares into the headlights.
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I met a woman—English, early 60s, dressed in white with a shaven head—who was a renunciate, meaning she'd transferred all her possessions over to Amma and agreed to work for Amma until she died.
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We don't get much time to ponder what Amma was doing with girls her clique supposedly viewed as losers because Camille rushes out of the bar, presumably worried that Amma could be lured to the shed.
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After saving Amma from their mother's attempts to slowly kill her, Camille notes that Amma can't sleep most nights unless she's sleeping next to Camille, who seems to be her one true source of love and companionship.
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Amma apologizes, and then uses the moment to get closer to Camille.
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This isn't the first time Amma has swung from cruelty to caring.
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Camille and Amma (played by the masterful Eliza Scanlen) have perfect hair.
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Amma is paying no mind to her mother's (overbearing) rules at home.
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They make a tiny, and almost healthy, little family, Camille and Amma.
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Amma also starts dressing like Camille, and so badly wants Camille's approval.
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So, what do viewers need to know about Amma to understand her?
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When my turn came, I got pushed into position and hugged Amma.
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Amma whispered a mantra in my ear and handed me a candy.
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On the front was a rough, hand-drawn illustrated portrait of Amma.
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Amma is cannier than Marian, or even Camille, was at her age.
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Going into next week's finale, the question is: Does Amma need saving?
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Unlike Amma, however, she only ever took out her aggression on herself.
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In one of the opening scenes, Amma shares an intimate conversation with Camille.
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Amma strikes me as someone who is very good at being emotionally manipulative.
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And that was fine, because Adora had Marion and Amma to focus on.
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Amma (as Millie) is captured by Union soldiers and tied to a tree.
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While Adora's maternal interest was equally as harmless, Amma was enraged by it.
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When Adora started mentoring Natalie and Ann, Amma saw them as a threat.
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"[Adora] said it's that way only because it's written by men," Amma says.
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Oh, and just how old Amma actually is (it's different from the book).
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Amma tries to seduce John while also tormenting him about his dead sister.
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Amma turns around in her mind the implied whiteness of a British accent.
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And she does apparently read Machiavelli, which, okay, Amma, you do you, girl.
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My father leaned in close to Amma and said, ''Do you recognize Aziz?
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I agree with the filmmaker Amma Asante that their stories should be told.
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"We have a dead sister, just like John Keene," Amma tells her friends.
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"Don't tell Mama," Amma begs Camille when she knows she's been found out.
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Camille uses the opportunity to ask Amma about her friendships with Natalie and Ann.
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To supporters among its 78m people she was known simply as Amma, meaning "mother".
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Our little Amma is slowly revealing herself to be a well-dressed Rosemary's baby.
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Instead, Amma approaches her from behind and the two start swaying to the rap.
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Joya shaped Adora in the same way that Adora shaped Amma, Camille, and Marian.
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Then, we see an enraged Amma pulling a clothesline tight around the girl's neck.
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We also see that Adora is having a relapse and is slowly poisoning Amma.
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But Amma described her Grecian getup as transforming her into Artemis, the blood huntress.
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Guvera's cofounder, Darren Herft, is also the chairman and cofounder of AMMA Private Equity.
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He dropped me off with his wife, Amma, and my sister-in-law, Katherine.
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Now that Mother Teresa is dead, Amma is the uncontested holiest woman on earth.
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Everyone says that Amma talks to them and they talk to her, but Amma doesn't speak English and apart from the 30 seconds on the stage where you're muffled in the deep valley of her bosom, she's not exactly hanging out for chats.
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"If I can [survive in Wind Gap], you can," Amma says, begging her to stay.
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But we also know one other suspect who's fond of hanging around the slaughterhouse: Amma.
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At last he spoke—or rather, he declared, the spirit of Amma spoke through him.
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During the scene, Alan's memory flashes back to him dancing around with a giddy Amma.
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Refinery29: We only get a few glimpses of Amma at the beginning of the season.
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And they started to ask prying questions about why Amma was sick all the time.
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AMMA had completed its initial public offering and now trades on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
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Amma is soft and sweet at home but cruel and rebellious in the outside world.
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Amma is willing to let Adora poison her, if it means Adora keeps protecting and loving her It's easy to assume what happened to May (or Lily in the book), the new friend who Amma makes after Adora is arrested and she's living with Camille.
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Together, they're a bunch of narcissistic misfits with one-liners so biting, even Amma would wince.
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As the episode title suggests, Camille, Amma, and Adora are ripe with influence, beauty, and sexuality.
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Amma and Camille's warped personalities are the direct result of Adora's personal brand of treacly cruelty.
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She wasn't that strict with Amma because she knew that the killer wasn't really out there.
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And why does Amma flip out when Adora so much as tries to touch the toy?
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But, as we discover in the final minutes of "Sharp Objects," the real murderer is Amma.
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Unfortunately, Camille can't save Alice either (another "A" name, like Adora, Amma and Camille's stepfather, Alan).
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Also, when Natalie's body is found, he's practically across the street with Amma and her friends.
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Jayalalithaa, widely known as "Amma" or "Mother", died on Monday following a cardiac arrest the previous day.
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The men express faith that "Amma" or "Mother", as many Tamils call her, will be all right.
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She was responsible for Marian's (Lulu Wilson) death and has been poisoning Amma (Eliza Scanlen) for years.
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Camille and Amma (Eliza Scanlen), who is lying in the hospital bed next to her, are safe.
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The killer is a cruel, and jealous Amma, Wind Gap's very own Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.
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So why isn't he taking the time to help Amma, who is sweating, puking, and hallucinating, upstairs?
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Instead we're forced to piece together the puzzle of Amma through Camille's jarring encounters with her sibling.
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In Amma Asante's film, Belle is a woman of colour living in the repressed 18th century Britain.
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Amma rolled down to her family's slaughterhouse to do some potentially weird stuff to a baby piglet.
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After a life spent on the margins, criticizing the center of the culture, is Amma selling out?
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If you look close, you'll see that Amma wasn't working alone; she had help the whole time.
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Then there's Amma, whose flight into the woods seems to have followed a moment of pure terror.
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That dead girl, as well as Alice, flashes through her mind as she and Amma whirl together.
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But as Amma reveals to Camille during their chat, she's nowhere near as innocent as she seems.
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The logistics of how Amma, Jodes, and Kelsey moved around the bodies or kept their mouths shut during the entire investigation is unclear, but thanks to two haunting final post-credit scenes, we know that Amma killed the two Wind Gap girls, and poor Mae, with her bare hands.
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Director Amma Asante blew up in a brand new way with 2013's Belle, her second feature film.
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She was known as Amma ("mother") for the public subsidies dished out to the poor under her government.
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Nothing is more chilling than Amma (Eliza Scanlen) uttering "mama," in her Southern accent, dripping with fake sincerity.
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That night, an obviously upset Amma asks Camille, a journalist, if she wishes she, too, were a writer.
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There are adjustments: Amma wants constant attention, craving the touch her mother so often forced up on her.
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Amma straddles the Madonna-whore dichotomy that all the women and girls of Wind Gap must live within.
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In the book, once the truth about Amma is revealed, John sends Camille a letter explaining it all.
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But Amma chased her down, then strangled her with a clothesline while the other girls held her down.
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"You can come up with 4000 other guesses, of course, as to why Amma did it," she muses.
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"I'm just her little doll to dress up," Amma says, then mentions that their mother calls Camille incorrigible.
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If Camille acts like the residents of Wind Gap, then Amma will have to get a bigger dollhouse.
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She doesn't want anyone to see her scars, has a complete meltdown, and yells at both Amma and Adora.
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Amma Asante poses for photographers upon arrival at the BBC Film's 25th Anniversary Reception in London, March 25, 2015.
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But this information is immediately overshadowed but what John says next: that Natalie (Jessica Treska) and Amma were friends.
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It's Amma, who in her journey to be her mother's "good girl" is driven to be very, very bad.
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Adora's arrested, and Amma cries out in agony at the sight of her mother being taken away in handcuffs.
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I think Amma probably gets some satisfaction out of those assumptions that people make in the town as well.
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He had moved in with Ashley after his sister's death to keep an eye on Amma and her crew.
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But she never fully recovers, left to constantly worry that she carries the disease shared by Adora and Amma.
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They double as her security, since Amma has been attacked on a couple of occasions, once with a knife.
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Every now and then, there's a controversy over the ashram—that it's exploitative, or that Amma is a bully.
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Already drunk from the pity party, Camille lets Amma drag her along and dose her with OxyContin, then ecstasy.
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It's quite a cliffhanger: Is something terrible about to happen to Amma, or to her friends, or to Adora?
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This explains why Amma and her friends were always so flippant about the murders Amma was the one who pulled out both girls' teeth for the "ivory" floor in her dollhouse, and the book notes that little girls' teeth are actually much easier to pull out than an adults' (or a pig).
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Scanlen, 20, portrayed Amma Crellin, the troublemaking half-sister of Amy Adams' reporter Camille Preaker on HBO's summer mini-series.
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Adora chose Wind Gap, and Alan, and Marion, and even Amma over her firstborn and Camille has suffered ever since.
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I'm really excited to see Stenberg take on a role in this powerful project, which was directed by Amma Asante.
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When we spoke to Revathi Amma, an activist who started the Samara NGO about the ruling, she discussed this problem.
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Camille realizes that it was Amma — not Adora — who committed the murders of the two young girls in their hometown.
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But enough about Amma: let's talk about the other most popular girl in town: Miss Ashley Wheeler, John Keen's girlfriend.
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Adora (Patricia Clarkson), and consequently Camille and Amma (Eliza Scanlen), are as close to Wind Gap royalty as they come.
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When Adora poisoned her, her mother thought she had the power, but really it was Amma pulling all the strings.
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Amma from Sharp Objects (Eliza Scanlen) as the ill-tempered daughter-scammer losing her faith in Christmas and Santa together.
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UPDATE: The Sharp Objects showrunner has given fans the smallest hope that Camille and Amma will return to our screens.
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And though he describes Amma and Camille as being alternately "dangerous and in danger," he doesn't specify which is which.
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Just before you get to hug Amma, her assistants grab you by the arms and bring you onto your knees.
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Amma is many things: She's a virgin, she's a guru, she's a small woman, no taller than a picket fence.
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At first, it seems possible that Adora is simply grateful to Camille for bringing Amma home safe the night before.
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Amma and Marion are "good" girls who sacrificed their health for their mother's feelings and are therefore worthy of love.
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That unbridled teen rage is the final image Sharp Objects gives us, with one final teeth-baring sigh from Amma Crellin.
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Camille pushes her away and escapes to the bathroom, leading Adora to move on to her next patient, Amma (Eliza Scanlen).
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Or maybe you're an Amma with a few Jods and Kelseys in the mix to fill out a whole group costume?
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Amma said he had spoken with more than 75 migrants back from Algeria, the majority of whom described slave-like conditions.
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As Amma noted, Persephone ended up happily married to Hades and was tasked with overseeing "punishment" for the denizens of hell.
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There's a band playing these triumphant Hindi numbers and the lyrics flash up on two huge screens either side of Amma.
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But I've come to decide that, like the Wi-Fi password in the guesthouse in north in Dharmkot, Amma is love.
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Just as Amma wields supreme power over her dollhouse, Adora's control over her real-life household is nothing short of hegemonic.
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Driven by an obligation to save Amma from Marian's fate, Camille denies Curry's plea for her to return to St. Louis.
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Camille's sacrifice, to save Amma and to find out once and for all whether Adora is poisoning her children, is heroic.
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But perhaps the most accurate rendering of Camille comes from Amma, when she's talking about the Greek goddess Persephone at dinner.
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"A United Kingdom" is written by Guy Hibbert and directed by Amma Asante, who was born in Britain of Ghanaian parents.
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Likewise, it was so obvious from the beginning that Amma was the killer that I was dubious she was the killer.
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Alex: I've had Amma pegged as the killer from the very beginning (full disclosure: I never read the book or synopsis).
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For Natalie, it was spiders; for Amma, it's shoplifting vodka and disguising it in Sprite bottles, just like Camille before her.
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The long-awaited twist comes during the final breath of the episode, when Camille is walking to throw out an empty container of milk (the episode's title, the drink poured for Amma the night she deemed herself Persephone, and the liquid that makes your teeth strong), only to find the mini-replica comforter Amma made for her dollhouse.
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Amma Asante (A Way of Life, Belle) has a TIFF favorite about the first president of Botswana coming to America in February.
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At home, Amma feigns an innocence that's close to precious, as if she'd spent too much time at the American Girl outlet.
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With Amma's history of not following the rules, Camille's mind goes to the most bleak situation, imagining Amma being the next victim.
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Namely, whether Amma murdered her new St. Louis friend, Mae (Iyana Halley), one of the only Black girls in the entire miniseries.
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In the next scene, Mae's mom reveals her daughter and Amma had their first fight… and she doesn't know where Mae is.
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It's Amma who hit one girl with rocks in the river until she stopped moving, and who strangled another just weeks later.
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When it comes to Camille's inscrutable younger half-sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen), viewers are gifted no such glimpse into the teen's psyche.
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Like the other girls' relationship to Adora, Amma turned against May/Lily because she started to suspect that Camille liked her better.
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Adora threatens where Amma rambles, but she could at least know something we don't, especially based on her Amma's conversation with John.
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Speaking of Amma, we witness just how much her and her group of crop-top wearing friends love to get into trouble.
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As Amma, a Hindu spiritual leader who has been called "the hugging saint," may tell you: Hugging is a natural human need.
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CORRECTION: This article has been updated to reflect that the statement put out by Amma Campa-Najjar's campaign was attributed to Chris Dalton.
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But really, it's confusing what was meant to accomplished by that, except for the fact that Amma has a lot of different sides.
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Amma stands before a rapt audience wearing hats and pastels, and reenacts the violent sexual assault at the center of Wind Gap's founding.
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She also started a chain of Amma canteens, where a person can get a full meal for less than five rupees ($0.08 USD).
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Her thought process is interrupted by loud yelps, and she rushes downstairs to see Amma in the midst of a full-on fit.
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Due to the language barrier (she doesn't speak English), our phone calls basically consist of the same exchange every few months: Amma: ''Hello!
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Because we'd often go long spells without seeing her, it would sometimes take Amma a second to tell my brother and me apart.
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Amma means "mother" in Hindi, and no mother could live with herself if she couldn't find a place for her children to sleep.
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Amma is the most famous living guru in India—maybe the world—and because she's a woman, women are attracted to the ashram.
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Is this the dark history to which Amma referred in last week's episode (and if so, how does she know about his past)?
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Adora may have met her match in Amma, but it's a different girl with an "A" name who most resembles the Crellin matriarch.
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Camille follows Amma to the pig farm, where the girl persuades a worker (perhaps with sexual favors) to let her cradle a piglet.
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You want to give enough time where Amma and Camille are being like sisters so that it is that moment of incredible shock.
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He'll have Jaleel Shaw on saxophones, Fima Ephron on bass, Brad Williams on guitar and the silk-toned Amma Whatt on vocals. (jazzstandard.com)
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" Birth of an icon Born Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan, on August 13, 1963, she later changed her name to Sridevi, Hindi for "goddess.
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Meanwhile, Amma, whom Camille is in part trying to rescue by allowing herself to distract Adora, essentially refuses to leave — effectively dooming Camille.
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I kept waiting for the show to explicitly say that Camille isn't Adora's only offspring, and that Amma has that in her, too.
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Then Amma pulls out a phone from underneath her top and tells Camille that she has a secret phone their mother doesn't know about.
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Hurt that she didn't get to see Camille's article before it was published, Amma finds retribution on a shopping excursion with Camille and Adora.
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Amma was the one who strangled them, and her friends held them down and helped her pull their teeth out for Amma's hellish dollhouse.
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Because as cool as Amma seems, I can't shake the idea of her doing some weird and dark role play in her mini-home.
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"Nothing can kill Amma," said one man holding a picture of the leader outside the hospital earlier as doctors battled to save her life.
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So, Amma expressly painted them with the exact same color she used on Ann Nash and Natalie Keen before murdering the teen of color.
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She and Amma are survivors of a house of horrors, run by their mother and her silent, but severe, condition of Munchausen by proxy.
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The characters start to arrive (Amma, Yazz, Dominique, Carole, Bummi and LaTisha) and they keep arriving (Shirley, Winsome, Penelope, Megan/Morgan, Hattie and Grace).
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Back inside, when Camille allows Amma to lay in her room with her, Marian's ghost watches them climb up the steps, acting silly together.
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The only person who seems unaffected by the situation is Amma, who stands around, bored, shining the clean white floors of her creepy dollhouse.
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Amma, however, was the one daughter who fully accepted Adora's parenting and even took some joy in being coddled-slash-poisoned by her mother.
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Camille meanders around Wind Gap, half drunk, blasting music, fumbling through abortive interviews, arguing with Adora, running into Amma, trading quips with Detective Willis.
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Also, be sure to keep an eye out for the show's most mysterious character, Camille's odd half-sister Amma, played by Australian actress Eliza Scanlen.
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What Amma is killing in Ann and Natalie — what drives her to a murderous rage — is her own need to escape this prison of femininity.
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At first, as we see during her rehearsals in last week's episode, Amma tries to rewrite the role to make the scene mildly more empowering.
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Written and directed by British screenwriter Amma Asante, the historical drama follows Leyna (Stenberg), a biracial teen growing up in an increasingly terrifying Nazi Germany.
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This is the first role for Scanlen after dazzling audiences this summer with her performance in Sharp Objects as Amma, the secretly sinister little sister.
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That's where Amma is coming from when she's putting on these personas, and she's trying to be the best version of herself for every situation.
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While detective Richard failed to suspect a female could have committed the crimes, the motivations he attributed to the murderer were spot on for Amma.
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Tamil Nadu's mother Jayalalithaa's popularity can perhaps be gauged by the fact that she was almost universally known by her a nickname: "Amma," or mother.
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We don't know if Adora suspected her daughter and thus took the rap, but one thing we know about Amma is that she's incredibly manipulative.
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"When you let them do it to you, you're really doing it to them," Amma says to Camille later, referring to her hookups with boys.
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It's hard to tell at this point whether Amma knows her teacher's dirty secret or is just taunting him by guessing that he has one.
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SK: Interesting to me that there are no Indian people on this show because imAGINE telling your Amma that this is how you're getting married.
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Later in the episode, Camille notes that Amma has a better time with Adora because it's "easier to go along" with what their mother wants.
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In a last nod to the show's psychedelic editing, we get a brutally quick montage of Amma murdering Ann, Natalie, and sadly her new friend.
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And we can see that escalation clearly in her face, as we get a first glimpse of Amma in full-on bloodlust mode while she's strangling Ann: This shot is followed by one last image of the doomed Mae — and then another shudder-inducing shot of Amma as she relishes her work: This is the final image we see of the mid-credits scene.
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Widely known as "Amma" or "Mother", the film star-turned politician had a cult following and there were fears supporters would react erratically to her death.
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During the scene in question, Camille, Amma, and Mae have dinner with Camille's boss Frank Curry (Miguel Sandoval) and his wife Eileen Curry (Barbara Eve Harris).
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It's especially not a coincidence that Camille subsequently finds the dollhouse comforter Mae made for Amma — and Camille complimented earlier in the episode — in the trash.
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Camille does not want Amma to see her scars, and she is fully aware that her mother is publicly bullying her, picking at her wounds (figuratively).
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Immediately after her night of drugs, booze, and bonding with Amma, Camille wakes up in a white gauze nightgown that seems out of character for her.
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I still fully believe Amma is the killer, so I'm wondering if the show will make good on my theory and give us a final twist.
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If we look at who's deploying more "sharp objects" to gain power and control over the people around her, however, Amma seems to be the winner.
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Amma has gotten so invested in this game that she has begun to do Adora's job for her, manufacturing nasty hangovers for her mom to cure.
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But not only that — if you look close, you'll see that Amma wasn't working alone; she had help from her two rollerblading buddies the whole time.
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This final depressing conversation is what Camille sees and hears when she looks at Amma, another young girl who is looking up to Camille as a sister.
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Alan is living in the house alone, and Amma has moved to St. Louis with Camille, just like they discussed (while high on drugs) in episode 6.
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It's how they use gender norms to their advantage While it's for more heinous reasons, Sharp Objects' Adora and Amma also wear their feminine roles like armor.
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Camille overhears a weird exchange between John and Amma at the pool in the same episode, which is almost identical to how it happens in the book.
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A line of chairs snakes its way from the hall, out back, up a ramp, onto the stage, and then row-by-row until you reach Amma.
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She obscures her monstrous behavior — making Marian and now Amma sick just so she can nurse them back to health — within the traditionally maternal rituals of caretaking.
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In the piece of writing Curry reads out loud, Camille wonders whether she enjoys caring for Amma because she's kind or because she's sick like her mother.
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It started when she saw Marian and Alice (Sydney Sweeney) in the woods while she was looking for Amma in the woods at the end of episode 5 (both are wearing white dresses, which feels significant), and now whenever she looks at Amma with her guard down (or while rolling and high on drugs) she blurs the images of her sister, her roommate, and her half-sister in her head.
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Then Amma continues to talk wistfully about building forts, and how she didn't get to do that with her ex-best friends who are now also ex-alive.
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Free meals at schools and subsidised ones at "Amma"-branded canteens, where a good meal costs 5 rupees ($0.08), have ended severe malnutrition in the state, for instance.
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At the beginning of the episode, a drunken Amma teases Camille that she just loves dead girls, viciously smiling the whole time, and it just might be true.
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But with episode 5 of Sharp Objects, "Closer", we are indeed that much closer to figuring out what makes Camille, Adora (Patricia Clarkson), and Amma (Eliza Scanlen) tick.
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The major problem for Amma is that no one but Camille (and Willis to some extent) know about Adora's true nature and her possible connection to the murders.
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Amma explains that she had actually been friends with Natalie and Ann for a while, the three of them running wild around the woods and hurting animals together.
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Both the Nash and Keene families are considered outsiders in the town, and their daughters didn't conform to the girlish ways of the other girls like, say, Amma.
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In a last nod to the show's psychedelic editing, we get a brutally quick sequence of Amma murdering Ann, Natalie, and one other woman — her new friend Mae.
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They've been a constant background presence throughout the show, but though they're slightly creepy in their own way, they've never stood out as particularly suspicious compared to Amma.
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Turns out, there's one more surprise still waiting for us in the "Behind The Scenes" segment that aired after the episode: Eliza Scanlen, who played Amma, is actually Australian.
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I think I'm rooting for Camille and Amma to find a way to connect — and for her mom's housemaid to find a way out of that creepy maid uniform.
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Forced to play the part of the perfect, passive, docile little girl, Amma hoards any semblance of agency, whether through sex, beauty, cruelty, violence, or a meticulous doll house.
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Amma apparently wrapped herself in a white sheet, powdered her whole face white, and got Natalie to follow her by telling her it was all part of a game.
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In the first section, we meet Amma, the playwright who is having her opening night and serves as something of a linchpin for the rest of the novel's cast.
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Alex: Well, it looks like Amma has some new, loose teeth for her dollhouse floor, so I would guess that her new friend in the apartment building is gone.
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Amma makes several references to feeling unwell over the course of the season and until Adora's poison was revealed it seemed like her sickness was just a side effect of her drinking and drug use, but the stark difference between Amma's lethargic daytime behavior and her nighttime energy may actually be a result of Adora "treating" her daughter's hangovers with The Blue, rendering Amma more docile and doll-like until the poison wears off.
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As such, you might entirely miss the fact that Camille Preaker is half sisters with Amma and Marian (LuLu Wilson), Camille's younger sister who died when she was a child.
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There, in the replica of Adora's famously ivory-floored bedroom, she sees dozens of human teeth laid into the dollhouse floor, proving that Amma was the real Wind Gap murderer.
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Another creepy detail left out of the show is how Amma collects the poor girl's hair, braiding it together to recreate the rug from Camille's old room for her dollhouse.
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At the same time, the importance of the Thanaweya Amma tests has increased because greater economic hardship in the country has put private colleges beyond the reach of many Egyptians.
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An established feeder league to the UFC, Cage Warriors embraces its role within the MMA scene—a position both LFA and AMMA are looking to be in the near future.
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When the town's adult men giggle at the grotesque spectacle of three teenage boys pretending to rape Amma, it's more disturbing than any other moment on the show so far.
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It took a while longer to discern that she had manufactured Marian's fatal sickness and that she was now regularly poisoning Amma in order to take care of the girl.
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When Adora shifted her attention from her own compliant daughter to two incorrigible girls, Ann and then Natalie, Amma reinvented herself as both the perfect challenge and the perfect victim.
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Early in the episode, Amma comes home wasted in the middle of the night and crashes a golf cart into the rosebush Adora fusses over like it's a fourth daughter.
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Adora's motherly love has aggressive overtones; she flips out when Vickery tells her that Amma has been out after curfew and demands control over her adult daughter's comings and goings.
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Now we see Amma, skating alone and wearing the same dress she was wearing at school earlier that day, as the headlights of a car trail her in the dark.
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The 18-year-old is starring in Amma Asante's (Belle) 2017 film Where Hands Touch, about a biracial teen in Nazi Germany who falls for a Hitler Youth member, per Variety.
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John had no idea that he was sleeping in the exact room where his sister had been brutally tortured and mutilated by Amma and her accomplices (which included Ashley's little sister).
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"What happens in Algeria surpasses what happens in Libya," said Bachir Amma, a Nigerien ex-smuggler who runs a football club and a local association to inform migrants of the risks.
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The next couple of cuts show Ann, who we know was found dead in a local Wind Gap pond, being strangled by a gleeful Amma as other hands hold her down.
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Many were beneficiaries of such schemes as Amma canteens and pharmacies, which sell subsidised meals and medicine, or of her government's handouts of blenders, fans and other goodies, adorned with her picture.
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It's Amma who stares John Keene (Taylor John Smith) dead in the eyes and spits out "Baby killer," knowing that she is really the one responsible for these two tremendously disturbing murders.
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We called up the Sydney-born actress bringing Amma to life, 19-year-old Eliza Scanlen, to answer that question, along with the many others we have about the youngest Crellin girl.
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This is actually left much more unclear in the book, but there are several moments in the show that indicate Adora did know (or at least suspected) that Amma was the killer.
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During this week's episode, we're joined by Anna Escher to praise the mystery, the setting and the performances of Amy Adams as Camille and Eliza Scanlen as her younger half-sister Amma.
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He's far from the scariest monster in this story, but it's chilling that, even after Marian's death, he has registered only the mildest complaints about Adora's methods of "taking care of" Amma.
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The filmmaker Amma Asante's latest drama, "A United Kingdom," tells the story of an African crown prince, Seretse Khama, who falls in love with a white Englishwoman, Ruth Williams, in 1940s London.
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As her hearse made its way to the Bay of Bengal shorefront, flanked by party workers clad in traditional white garments, crowds behind the barricades jostled to get a better view of "Amma".
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Adora's arrest almost made it seem like Camille and her little sister, Amma (Eliza Scanlen), would get some semblance of a happy ending, and the show's denouement seemed to underline that — at first.
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When Camille's back in Wind Gap, she's attached to her reputation, one so persistent that even Amma (Eliza Scanlen) and her friends, 14 years her junior, recall her past as a promiscuous beauty.
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Adora goes to prison, Amma moves in with Camille in St. Louis...and everything seems as good at things get for Camille, who can finally begin to heal from her mother's horrible nature.
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Those scenes in the last episode where she is poisoning Amma and Camille are nauseating to watch, because it's a different Adora — a loving and tender version who is actually destroying these people.
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Later in the episode, Camille looks into a different pink-clad bedroom — that of her younger sister, Amma, another teen girl who uses her mother's image of her to mask a rebellious adolescence.
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Even the secondary post-credits mini scene — which caps the series and shows a white dress-wearing Amma slink into the forest — confirms James Capisi's (Dylan Schombing) "Woman In White" story of Ann's abduction.
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Wind Gap's biggest mistakes lies in underestimating girls like Amma (Eliza Scanlen) We're given glimpses into Camille and Marian's childhood through disorienting jump cuts to her wordless memories, a characteristic of Vallée's visual style.
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Some of the stories are a little ridiculous: John, a retired judge from Arizona, said he opened a book and out fell a postcard of Amma that he'd bought himself while at the ashram.
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Meanwhile, no one has been asking where Amma or Adora was on the nights of the murders, even though Adora tells the Sheriff in "Fix" that she personally knew both of the dead girls.
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Only two directors were black women during that period: Amma Asante, the director of the British period drama "Belle," and Ava DuVernay, the director of "Selma," whose omission among last year's Oscar nominees prompted indignation.
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She then discovers that the dollhouse floor is made of human teeth, pointing to Amma as being the one who actually killed the girls, given that their teeth were missing when their bodies were found.
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Tellingly, it is Amma who attempts to reclaim the story of Millie Calhoun, which glorifies women as sexual victims, by rewriting it to incorporate the violence she's taken to as a twisted form of empowerment.
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It is there in every breath of Amma Crellin (Eliza Scanlen), Camille's teenage half-sister and the hell-raising, hard-partying It-girl of Wind Gap, when she leaves the punishing walls of her home.
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While Amma's friends get lighter sentences for coming forward with their testimonies, Amma is found guilty of first-degree murder and it's said she will remain locked up until her eighteenth birthday (and likely longer).
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Despite this evidence, and an awkward moment spent eavesdropping on John telling Amma that he is "always watching her" and promises that "it will be your day, soon," Camille doesn't see John as a threat.
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I don't know how to say this without sounding creepy—even more so because Amma is kind of a saint—but her breasts are huge and warm as she pulls you in with both hands.
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In her drug-addled monologue at the end of Episode 6, Amma told Camille about how she manipulates boys: "When you let them do it to you, you're really doing it to them," she said.
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The episode's editing draws attention to the resemblance between Camille's attachment to Alice and her relationship with Amma, who directs a strange mix of antipathy and affection toward this much older sibling she barely knows.
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The director, Amma Asante (working from a script by Guy Hibbert, who adapted Susan Williams's 2006 nonfiction book "Colour Bar"), emphasizes this in her staging of the unequivocal and unaffected affection and regard they exchange.
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For example, Adora's treatment of Amma has reminded me throughout of Mommy Dead and Dearest — another real-life story of a fateful Munchausen's-by-Proxy murder, one that also unfolded in a small Missouri town.
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Amma, who admits openly that none of her friends like her, but she knows how to control them, calls Camille her "soulmate," then laughs, saying that maybe this is what a bond of sisterhood feels like.
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That would make sense, as in the book version of Sharp Objects' Amma keeps Natalie prisoner in Kelsey's carriage house for days before killing her and placing her body on a main street in Wind Gap.
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This is before she drinks the milk, and then, I believe, pretends to feel ill in order to distract Adora from further poisoning Amma, and instead feed her the mysterious liquids in her glass blue bottles.
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Although Adora definitely killed her second daughter Marian Crellin (Lulu Wilson), it was Amma who terrorized the tiny town of Wind Gap with the double murders of Ann Nash (Kaegan Baron) and Natalie Keene (Jessica Treska).
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But at the very end, after the credits roll once again, we get one last coda: a quick shot of Amma as the Woman in White, summoning her friends to the woods — and to their deaths.
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While LFA has established markets in California and Texas, AMMA is based in New York and is hoping to utilise the different fan bases accrued by those promotions in their different locations across the United States.
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" Earlier in the mini-series, by way of delivering the news that Amma was sneaking out at night, he told Adora, of her daughters, "One of them is dangerous and the other one is in danger.
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Plus, we get Patricia Clarkson in a standout turn as Camille's deliciously repressive mother, an old-money townie who's keeping Camille's younger sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen) under a tight leash while the killer — or killers — run loose.
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The police arrested Mohanad Ahmed, an 18-year-old high school student from Alexandria, who later appeared on television confessing to running "Chao Ming helps Thanaweya Amma cheat," the series of Facebook pages that posted the exams.
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In one scene in "Ripe" where Amma tries to seduce one of her teachers, the two have a strange conversation about history: He reminds her that you can't change it, and she seems to reject the idea.
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In bringing their story to the screen, director Amma Asante (Belle) faithfully follows the familiar arc of countless historical biopics before her: the noble struggle, the seemingly insurmountable setbacks, the string-swelling triumph in the last reel.
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NEW DELHI — A paroxysm of grief began rippling through the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Monday when its longtime leader, an imperious former starlet known by her followers as Amma, or Mother, was pronounced dead.
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Among those to be honored over the course of the weekend are J.J. Abrams, recipient of the Athena Film Festival Leading Man Award, writer and director Amma Asante, documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple, and actress and comedian Bridget Everett.
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British director Amma Asante, who also made the 2013 period drama "Belle", said she wanted to make the film partly because she's an "unashamed romantic", but also because it involved the two continents that shaped who she is.
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Ms. Jayaram, 68, a former movie star known to her admirers as Amma, or Mother, died on Monday night of cardiac arrest after dominating state politics for four decades and serving five times as the state's chief minister.
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Director Amma Asante's "A United Kingdom" stars British actor David Oyelowo as Seretse Khama, the king of Botswana, who defied traditions and expectations in 1947 to marry a white English worker portrayed in the movie by Rosamund Pike.
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The period costume love story has been compared to Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, Jane Campion's The Piano, and Amma Asante's Belle, and its gorgeous cinematography is already making the rounds on Twitter.
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Camille, drugged out and feeling pretty great about it, keeps having flashbacks to all the dead girls she's loved before — her dead younger sister, Marianne, and her dead hospital roommate — but she lets herself give in to Amma anyway.
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" Stenberg recounted how the director of the film, Amma Asante, found her on set and offered words of comfort — telling Stenberg that "progress is like a coil you have to go down in order to circle back up again.
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Her political party and the hospital where she was being treated confirmed the popular former film actress and chief minister of southern India's Tamil Nadu state, widely known as "Amma" or "Mother", had died at the age of 68.
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And so it was when I ran into a German Buddhist nun in the lower Himalayas who urged me to hop on a plane and fly south to the ashram of Amma—India's hugging saint—I didn't question it.
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In early October, AMMA published a press release that announced its plans as a combined feeder league to the bigger MMA promotions, as well confirming its place on the stock market—becoming the first ever publicly traded MMA promotion.
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Mbatha-Raw is herself a fighter: In 2014, she broke through with Amma Asante's "Belle," about the mixed-race daughter of an 18th-century British naval captain raised among the white aristocracy — a role she pursued for eight years.
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It isn't difficult to see what these scenes of sinister and twisted feminine caretaking have to do with roses (and it's probably worth noting that Alice, Adora and Amma all wear floral prints at some point in the episode).
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Eliza Scanlen's character, Amma, a complicated teenager and the leader of this feral pack, uses her skates to flee from not just her family, but also from the oppressive town of Wind Gap, Mo., where the story is set.
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After being rescued, Camille discovered that the sins of the mother had, in a sense, been visited upon the daughter -- with Camille making a discovery that exposed her half-sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen) as a murderer, echoing Flynn's novel.
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"I think that's why I never loved you," Adora tells Camille, point blank, in a moment where both Camille and the audience are lead to believe Adora might actually show a modicum of warmth for once after she had rescued Amma.
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She'll never say, "This is the precise reason why my mother, Adora (Patricia Clarkson), is such a controlling wreck," or reveal her actual thoughts on her younger half-sister, Amma (Eliza Scanlen), who seems to be part-snake, part-teenage girl.
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Like, say, one especially terrifying Amma Crellin (Eliza Scanlen) scene coming up in this Sunday's Sharp Objects, or the final, foreboding image of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) sauntering off into the night in the last moments of Handmaid's Tale season 2.
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Camille is publicly affectionate towards Richard to piss off Adora, so Adora grabs Richard and takes him on a tour of the home where she warns him of Camille's "thorns," all while Amma angrily and enviously watches from the sidelines.
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This seems to be where Amma, who throughout the season spoke repeatedly of how her friends didn't really love her, has ended up — addicted to power and to death, but secretly craving real love and affection she doesn't believe are hers.
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I'm going to split with my colleague Alex Abad-Santos here and say that I don't think it's Amma — though I agree it's highly telling that no one has suspected her (except John Keene, who clearly thinks she's a criminal).
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Not so for When Hands Touch, Amma Asante's controversial World War II film starring Amandla Stenberg as Leyna, a biracial German teenager who falls in love with Lutz (George MacKay), the son of a Nazi official and member of the Hitler Youth.
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In the historical drama from acclaimed director Amma Asante (Belle), the Hunger Games actress, 19, plays Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother (Abbie Cornish) and a black African father, as her character comes of age during the Holocaust.
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Amma learns to weaponize both versions of herself But this is what patriarchal society looks like: turning women against each other, valuing them based on adherence to gender norms, and making them do the work of policing one another for "correctly" performing femininity.
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But before finally resting — because let's recap: she woke up hungover in her car, then went to interview a grieving father, saw a dead body, was interrogated by the police, and met her wicked sibling — Amma plays one last trick on Camille.
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Instead of taking advantage of her sister's sacrifice, Amma sneaks back in her room to play with her dollhouse and eat a piece of chocolate cake, wearing that same floral crown which is now matted to her sweat- and vomit-soaked hair.
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The finale ends before explaining exactly why and how Amma killed her former friends, but her final line, "don't tell Mama," insinuates that Adora's years of abuse may have damaged her grip on reality and perhaps even her ability to feel empathy.
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Born Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, she started acting at the age of four, appearing in several Tamil-language films in the 1960s and 1970s, and eventually dropping out of school for a career in the movies.
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Adora is the Woman in White, but Amma is the Huntress in White Adora is found guilty of murdering Marian, and also locked up — though there's mention of a potential appeal and she had online supporters in the form of a freeadora.
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The bizarre, abusive environment in which she grew up — being looked up to by Wind Gap society while her mother slowly poisons her with antifreeze — molded Amma into the product of every Preaker woman's mistakes and abuses: a literal cold-hearted murderer.
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You could spend hours dissecting that closing montage, which begins when John Keene — whom Vickery is desperate to arrest and whom Camille no longer believes to be the killer — tells Camille that Amma used to go to the shed with Ann and Natalie.
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Amma knows how she's expected to behave, and that she can wriggle out all kinds of freedoms as long as she maintains a certain image — that's why we see her wearing different outfits and putting on a different demeanor when she's at home.
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But instead of wearing short jean cut-offs and a tiny tee, Amma is wearing an innocent Lilly Pulitzer-esque dress, covered in lemons (a fitting choice as she herself seems sour) with a white cardigan to match her stark white socks and sneakers.
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Amma even has an elaborate dollhouse that she shows Camille, telling her that "it's my fantasy," when in reality, the house is far from a fantasy: It is an exact replica of the house they're standing in right now, down to the ornate pillow cushions.
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Headquartered in the Finnish city of Turku, with product development in Helsinki and offices around Asia, Tapp's Series A round was raised from Australia-based Amma Private Equity — an early-stage investment network — and brings the total amount invested in the company to $27 million.
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Perhaps. But last night's episode of Sharp Objects suggests that the Camille (Amy Adams), Amma (Eliza Scanlen) and Adora's (Patricia Clarkson) behavior stems from a more immediate source: Adora's mother, Joya, who died soon after Camille was born and doesn't appear in the show.
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The official final scene of Sharp Objects suggests Camille Preaker's (Amy Adams) 15-year-old little sister Amma is the killer who terrorized Wind Gap and is continuing her murderous reign in St. Louis — not the pair's now-imprisoned mother, Adora Crellin (Patricia Clarkson).
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The show, which primarily focused on Camille's budding relationship with her half-sister, Amma Crellin (Eliza Scanlen), became not only a murder mystery (with one of the most shocking TV finale twists ever), but it also became sort-of an obsession for many viewers.
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Amma spots her there and somehow ropes Camille into taking Oxycodone, attending a high schooler's blow-out house party, popping ecstasy, dancing to "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," roller blading home, and rough housing in their front yard until they're both dizzy and bleeding.
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In the last several years, in addition to "Selma," he has been nominated for an Emmy for his work in the TV movie "Nightingale," and now appears in Mira Nair's "Queen of Katwe" and "A United Kingdom," Amma Assante's biographical story of an interracial marriage.
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In fact, their leader turns out to be Camille's half sister, Amma (Eliza Scanlen), a beautiful girl who smokes, wears skimpy dresses and steals the flowers from a shrine for Natalie, but who plays the part of a modest, obedient daughter when Adora is around.
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Born as Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, she started acting at age four, appearing in several Tamil films in the 60's and 70's, and eventually dropping out of school for a career in the movies.
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And the idea of Camille and Adora sharing that bond may change the way one would look at Camille's reaction to sex and pain, or her self-harm and suicidal streak, or the way she wants to take care of Amma but doesn't know how.
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She's torn about leaving behind 11-year-old Mary, who was something between a little sister and protégé, but both she and Mary are excited about Belinda's chance to befriend the new family's daughter, Amma — whose surliness and Westernized habits and slang make her, unfortunately, utterly foreign.
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But, for fighters, the presence of both LFA and AMMA will boost the hopes and the likelihood to make it to the big leagues for those carving out names for themselves in the fledgling stages of their professional MMA careers in the doldrums of the regional circuit.
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But, if the well-intentioned, US-based, designated feeder leagues in LFA and AMMA help provide bigger and better opportunities for these up-and-coming fighters, then you'd be hard-pressed to not be excited at the improved prospects of these hard-working men and women.
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When she takes Camille and Amma to the store to buy Camille a dress for Calhoun Day, she dismisses the shopkeeper's concern by saying "you know us Crellin women...slow healers," which alludes to the fact that Adora both invents and prolongs family illnesses to seek attention.
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In some moments, through lighting or music, the film hints at a deeper darkness (not least because we last saw Purser with a slug crawling out of her mouth and Froseth looks like she definitely auditioned for Amma in Sharp Objects), but those minor tone shifts never pay off.
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Screenshot: YouTube/Vertical EntertainmentWhere Hands Touch, director Amma Asante's new film about a love story between a biracial black teen (Amandla Stenberg) and a member of the Hitler youth (George MacKay) in Nazi Germany, promptly received backlash online after it was made available on streaming services this month.
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The scene, which absolutely no one would expect without stories like this, doesn't merely leave you gasping for air, it tears into your lungs and rips out all the oxygen with the same brutality the montage reveals Amma Crellin (Eliza Scanlen) harbors under a mask of roller skating teen abandon.
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Here's a sample: The lion who ripped the face off the enemy's elephantrefused the wedding proposal of Krishnawho is the representation of the universe on earthAll praise her When you finally get to the stage, you see Amma on her throne surrounded by a mixture of Indian and Western helpers.
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This week, we observed just how complicit Alan is in his wife's Munchausen by Proxy: Not only does he talk Amma out of leaving the house, bribing her with cake, but he flat-out lies to Willis when the detective shows up at the Crellins' door in search of Camille.
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As revealed in Episode 6, Adora's FDIA led her to poison Marion and Amma with "The Blue," a cocktail of crushed pills and other liquids that she pretended was medicine (Camille recalls being offered The Blue as a child but refused it, making her a difficult target for Adora's FDIA).
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She lost one sister when she was young, and has in the time since distanced herself from her family — performatively delicate mother Adora (Patricia Clarkson), fuzzy outline of a stepfather Alan (Henry Czerny) — to the point where she doesn't recognize her other sibling, teenage half-sister Amma (Eliza Scanlen), on first sight.
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That's why there is something so eerily relatable about Amma, who seeks empowerment by making up a story about a female militia that never existed for the Calhoun Day school play — all while manipulating her friends into her own kind of militia, torturing and murdering other girls who stray from those feminine ideals.
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Right there we realize that the episode isn't called "Cherry" just because it is another word written on Camille, it's called that because each of the women we're learning about — Camille, Adora (Patricia Clarkson), and Amma (Eliza Scanlen) — are all cherries with a different dark secret, being hidden by a shiny facade.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "Otherwise: New & Selected Poems" by Jane Kenyon "Kill All Normies" by Angela Nagle "Beyond the Horizon" by Amma Darko "The Adversary" by Emmanuel Carrère We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Even after "Amma"—"Mother"—a former idol of the Tamil film industry, died in December, Mr Panneerselvam meekly agreed to step aside as chief minister in favour of V.K. Sasikala (pictured), a woman who has no political experience beyond having lived with Ms Jayalalithaa for the past 30 years, but is claiming her mantle.
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If you were paying close attention to the opening scene of the finale, when Camille arrived home and walked in on her family's demented dinner table ritual, you'll have noticed that Amma was cosplaying as Persephone, the virginal woman who, according to Greek mythology, was abducted by Hades, the king of the underworld — a.k.a.
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In this go-round, director Jean-Marc Vallée puts the focus back on Amma's relationship with Camille, as our favorite teen fatale lures her older sister through a typical suburban house party, where Amma gets into a brief fight with John Keene (the brother of murder victim No. 2, Natalie) and his girlfriend Ashley over their mutual suspicions of each other.
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Of those four projects, three are directed or written by women — something that has been important to Mbatha-Raw throughout her career: Belle was directed by British screenwriter and director Amma Asante, and for her second major leading role, Mbatha-Raw played a Rihanna-like pop-star dealing with the downsides of fame in Beyond The Lights, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
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The season finale, "Milk," positions two of them as the two main suspects in the murders at the center of the show — Camille's mother Adora, who poisoned Camille's younger sister years ago, and Camille's half-sister Amma, who's revealed in the final scene to have killed her former two best friends, Ann and Natalie — and who has very probably just killed again.
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While waiting, I visualized my question for Amma, which was this: Listen, while I can appreciate this place and see nothing bad with it, it's really doing my head in right now, so can you in your infinite wisdom and power find a way for me to leave because the trains are packed and I've got no energy to think up of alternatives. Thanks.
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