The Shards’ opening episodes coast on sunny malaise and the threat of violence
Heavy-handed voiceover and shallow characterization doesn’t entirely prevent the show from casting a spell.

Known for Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Midnight Club
Heavy-handed voiceover and shallow characterization doesn’t entirely prevent the show from casting a spell.
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…
Ryan Murphy's new crime thriller The Shards combines the dark twists of American Horror Story with the high school drama of The Breakfast…
In some ways, an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel “The Shards” has had some of the heavy lifting done for it. Ellis’ cooly…
The unwieldy, oddly compelling adaptation takes a few too many creative liberties with is source material.
Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell and Kaia Gerber lead this series adaptation of Ellis' loosely autobiographical novel…