MINISERIES PREMIERE: Amy Adams stars in this new HBO miniseries, based on the first novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, who directed HBO’s similarly dark and moody Big Little Lies. There’s a mystery afoot, about missing and murdered young girls, and Adams plays a troubled newspaper reporter who returns to her small home town to investigate. Adams, all sullen and scarred – physically as well as emotionally – delivers the best performance of her career to date. And Patricia Clarkson, as the reporter’s controlling and manipulative mother, is as icy as a polar cap. The images are often all but subliminal, and the music leaking from car radios and bar jukeboxes full of volume and pain… just like the characters. To read and hear my full review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website. And for another full review, on TVWW, read Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.