Ryan Murphy’s Latest Is ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Meets ‘The Silence of the Lambs’

The Daily Beast/FX Ryan Murphy’s shows aren’t sexy and scary but “sexy” and “scary,” and that’s absurdly true of The Shards, an adaptation of American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 autofiction novel whose every look, gesture, and innuendo is deliberately, laughably affected. An ‘80s pantomime that blends hedonistic L.A. preppy glitz and glamour with malevolent serial-killer suspense, it’s an ideal marriage of two artists infatuated—to a risible degree—with superficial hot-and-gory…