Warning: Spoilers ahead forย “Sharp Objects” Episode 5, “Closer”
In the latest episode of “Sharp Objects,” the residents of Wind Gap, Missouri, convene at Adora Preaker’s (Patricia Clarkson) estate to celebrate the town’s founder with Calhoun Day — an idea that showrunner Marti Noxon told TheWrap began as a joke.
“It started as a joke, to be honest,” Noxon said with a laugh of the made-up holiday (Calhoun Day isn’t part of the Gillian Flynn novel on which the show is based). “Well… the kind of joke that in a [writer’s] room takes on its own life.”
Noxon said that she and the “Sharp Objects” writers were “fascinated” with the way the residents of Wind Gap “seemed to really identify with the South and the kind of Dixie flag flying and the story of Calhoun, the town’s founder.”