“The Shards” is oozing with Bret Easton Ellis vibes

Ryan Murphy’s collab with the American Psycho author brings Gen X's wasted youth back from the grave

Igby Rigney is exhausted.  It’s a day before “The Shards” launches, and he’s just gotten back from Berlin, the final stop of a global press tour that also took him to New York and London. When the series debuts on FX on Aug. 5, he’ll be celebrating at the official launch party at a roller…

Teens smoke cigs like they’re a trending topic in The Shards – it’s 1981 and everyone is beautiful. But if the smokes don’t get them, a serial killer might.

Teenage kicks and a serial killer — inside TV’s sexiest new drama  The Times

Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell and Kaia Gerber lead this series adaptation of Ellis' loosely autobiographical novel set in early-'80s Los Angeles.

The Shards brings the cocaine-addled teens of a 1980s prep school to life with a cast of newcomers and a heavy dose of sleaze One of the first things Ryan Murphy’s TV adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards will make you ask is: where the hell are these kids’ parents? The answer is simple. This is Los Angeles in 1