Review: Is the series The Shards worth watching?

deep dive review The series is streaming on Disney+ now. IF THERE IS a more obvious but belated pairing on the screen, it’s TV producer Ryan Murphy and American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis. Perhaps you might not think they’d make good creative partners, but both men share a love of high drama, maximalism and the lurid lives of the rich. They each understand the allure of shiny, beautiful bodies and the power of a stuffed wallet. So it makes sense, then, that Murphy (and his large team) has produced a streaming series of Easton Ellis’s 2023 novel The Shards, for Disney+. The series is a mix of genres: a creepy slasher-meets teen drama-meets psychosexual exploration of young manhood. The book began as a serialised audiobook by Easton Ellis, loosely based on his own youth, with an added s