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The Shards
Created by Ryan Murphy, Bret Easton Ellis
17-year-old Bret Easton Ellis is in his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending his world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler. From TMDB
160 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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The Shards is a 2026 drama mystery TV series, created by Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis, starring Igby Rigney, Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere.
- 121 people have posted about this series on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Sep 1, 2023 to Nov 3, 2026
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 56% of 57 critics' reviews are positive, with an average of rated reviews of 6.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The combination of Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis should elicit magnanimously pulpy TV, but instead The Shards relegates itself to obtuse style with mildly entertaining substance." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the show a score of 55 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. On FX, The Shards averaged 237,000 viewers for its initial airings. On streaming, The Shards ranked No. 2 on Hulu's "Top 15 Today" list—a daily updated list of the platform's most-watched…
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60 of 160 · most liked firstOnce again thinking about the typical high schoolers depicted in Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis's FX series "The Shards." I feel like I'm looking at a picture of me and my friends back in 2005!
positive · AI labelView post →Note to film-makers; if you want to stop a show in its tracks for 10 minutes, showing a poster like this for The Shining is one way to do it. Seen in a cinema lobby in The Shards, this sent me off on a wild goose chase to see if this poster was real or ever used- I'm sure this was not a real thing.
negative · AI labelView post →Genuinely stunned by the positive reviews for Crystal Lake. It’s the worst show I’ve watched all year, and this is coming from someone who recapped The Shards.
negative · AI labelView post →I thought the premiere of The Shards was a scream, treating the marvelous premise—what if Bret Easton Ellis were a teen sleuth on the trail of a serial killer while also writing Less Than Zero—exactly as seriously as it deserves to be treated.
positive · AI labelView post →So the thing about Ryan Murphy's "The Shards" is that it isn't GOOD, but I wrote 1500 words on it and I've spent the week since I finished my review thinking of all the things I didn't get around to discussing. So it engaged me on SOME level. My review:
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s not just that The Shards barely resembles the novel it’s based on. It’s also that halfway through the season, Ryan Murphy undermines any narrative momentum so that he can do a bunch of extended ‘80s dance sequences. My 1-star recap is up now.
negative · AI labelView post →Turns out The Shards was faithful to the novel in the first two episodes because those are the ones Bret Easton Ellis signed off on. With him gone, Ryan Murphy drives the show off a cliff. Here’s my recap of the whiplash-inducing third episode.
negative · AI labelView post →The Shards tv show adaptation is not very good and essentially not even an adaptation of the book but it IS hilarious trash
negative · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Here are my #LastFourWatched Was inspired to see THE INFORMERS while watching the new Ryan Murphy series "The Shards." See the documentary SAVING MES AYNAK on Hoopla. It's an important story you've never heard of, about important archeological finds in Afghanistan.
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI, my reviews of... FX's "The Shards": www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review... USA's "Anna Pigeon": www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review... HBO's "Monsters of God": www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review...
neutral · AI labelView post →New on FX on Hulu and on Disney+, Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel The Shards is about a writer called Bret Easton Ellis who wonders if a stranger at his school might be a serial killer. This show is interesting, but not quite there. 3 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/08/14/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Shards ends with such a “fuck you” to the audience that I audibly groaned. What a disaster this show turned out to be. My final recap is up now.
negative · AI labelView post →I shouldn’t be surprised that Ryan Murphy snatched up another queer tv show, but I was much more excited for The Shards when Luca Guadagnino and HBO were attached
neutral · AI labelView post →Welcome to STC Sunday Morning! This week I began covering The Shards, Ryan Murphy's new show about Bret Easton Ellis, Boy Detective, adapting his autofiction novel. I think it's a blast.
positive · AI labelView post →(This thought inspired by noticing how every male actor in the The Shards adaptation kind of looks like Clavicular even by the standards of a Ryan Murphy show)
neutral · AI labelView post →The cast of THE SHARDS are dressing like it's a prestige Oscar-bait drama instead of a trashy teen soap, but we appreciate the efforts tomandlorenzo.com/2026/07/red-...
neutral · AI labelView post →As everyone knows, the best way to praise your work is by pointing at copies of Children of Time series and insisting that Avrana Kern looks like Majel Barrett. Or reading the Shards of Earth trilogy and immediately saying, "I should run a ttRPG game a lot like this." Works well for me I think.
neutral · AI labelView post →Started “The Shards.” Let’s see how Ryan Murphy this show can get.
neutral · AI labelView post →#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge Nice! And great tunes & prompt from Be Steel - just heard this again on new series The Shards, remember it well! Human League, Don't You Want Me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPud...
neutral · AI labelView post →@jeremygordon.bsky.social is so right about how the book version of The Shards ruled, and how the TV adaptation is bad. And he didn’t even have to mention the embarrassing Shakespeare episode. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
neutral · AI labelView post →When the catchy pop music on the show is louder and more distinctive that the dialogue and performances, the show is not good. The Shards, with its splashy LA locale and conventionally attractive, young, white, and rich characters, is both dull and hollow. The murder mystery isn't even intriguing.
negative · AI labelView post →Red Carpet Rundown: Kaia Gerber and Darren Criss joined a whole bunch of young stars we never heard of for the premiere of Ryan Murphy's latest mess THE SHARDS tomandlorenzo.com/2026/07/red-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll give you a top 7 in no particular order, using my criteria of "over 500 pages counts" - It (alternate: Needful Things) - The Shards - Ghost Story - The Great and Secret Show - Swan Song - Life's Lottery - Gnomon
neutral · AI labelView post →So honored to have my book show up as part of the Shards of the Past exhibition in Venice. Wish I could be there! unive.it/pag/48310/?fbc…
neutral · AI labelView post →Book 46 of 2026: The Shards This was adapted into a miniseries that I was thinking of watching but every review said the series wasn’t good and to read the book instead. I’m glad I did! This is the perfect creepy read even though the first 400 pages is just drugs and gay sex lmao
positive · AI labelView post →Release Roundup, August 2026. | Name | Season | Date | Networks | Genres | Countries | | -------------------------------------------- | -------------- | --------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------- | -------------------- | | Lioness | Season 3 | 8/2/2026 | Paramount+ | Action, Drama, Thriller…
neutral · AI labelView post →Then there’s this fwiw: She’s in a new Ryan Murphy series called “The Shards” that comes out on Hulu next week 🤷🏻♀️ But it’s true that she’s only had two smallish roles since “Westworld” ended in 2022 and we don’t know if that’s by choice (raising her kid) or reasons alluded to here
neutral · AI labelView post →Have a right rotten dose of pneumonia, but there's no cure like a good book. Absolutely buried in @aptshadow.bsky.social's City of Last Chances. Loved the Shards of Earth series and Children of Time, and this is right up there with them.
neutral · AI labelView post →TOMORROW: Full cover reveal for The Shards of the Moon, the final book in my Slavic mythology inspired fantasy series, The Frostmarked Chronicles! 📚💙 #BookSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's The Shards is basically "What if we made the whole episode out of the 'Got to Give It Up' disco scene from Summer of Sam?" I llllloved it
positive · AI labelView post →Casting news for one of our faves. I didn't know he was recurring on The Shards right now. @therealsnicks.bsky.social @morganruble.bsky.social @cmr2.bsky.social @axfrommn.bsky.social @bluegreen118.bsky.social @tvdean.bsky.social @campbloodbuzz.bsky.social deadline.com/2026/09/jame...
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen #TheShards on #FX? Pete did and you gotta see his take. is #RyanMurphy making another gorgeous FX series that starts with an incredible premise, great source material and slowly disappears inside its own mood board of cliche's and pompous materialism? Find out! youtu.be/Rs5YNsKGre4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Shards is a show that loves lingering on beautiful things that won't last.
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched the first episode of the Shards last night. I'm not sure if I loved it or hated it. (Patric is bailing on the show.) Whatever the case, I had fun reading the reviews. Some tv critics absolutely and totally hate everything Ryan Murphy does and I think that's hilarious.
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of THE SHARDS, a show that really wants you to know it’s 19! 8! 1! www.tvguide.com/news/the-sha...
negative · AI labelView post →The end of The Frostmarked Chronicles... My author copies of The Shards of the Moon just arrived! The book releases THIS TUESDAY! I can't wait to share the series finale with all of you.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve quietly published two fiction series over the years: The Shards 🔱 trilogy is a historical fantasy about Cleopatra’s children, the Ark of the Covenant, and other legends. The Seaborn 🌊 trilogy is a fantasy adventure of pirate women, airships, and metal men.
neutral · AI labelView post →You read any Adrian Tchaikovsky? I can recommend Children of Time and the Shards of Earth series. I also liked Doors of Eden
neutral · AI labelView post →The Shards show reminds me why people dislike Ryan Murphy, I didn't know he tossed Bret Easton Ellis' scripts and he WROTE the book. I'm sitting there like we're going off the rails and switching when things happen and extending characters' duration and impact in the whole story. Good lord.
negative · AI labelView post →Watching this show The Shards on Hulu. Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford kids are in it. Cindy’s daughter looks more like Cindy than Cindy looks like Cindy 😮
neutral · AI labelView post →Much as I love to be a hater, The Shards may be the series that Ryan Murphy was born to make.
positive · AI labelView post →New posters for ‘THE SHARDS’ have been released. The series follows a prep school student whose obsession with a new classmate grows as a serial killer begins closing in on him and his friends. Premieres August 5 on FX and Hulu. #TheShards #FX
neutral · AI labelView post →New posters for ‘THE SHARDS’. The series follows a prep school student whose fixation on a mysterious classmate collides with the hunt for a serial killer. Premiering August 5 on FX and Hulu. #TheShards #FX
neutral · AI labelView post →The fact The Shards went from a Luca Guadagnino series starring Jacob Elordi to a Ryan Murphy-produced show directed by Henry Winkler's kid starring Kaia Gerber....lmaoooo
neutral · AI labelView post →I stuck my face into this week's dance-off episode of The Shards like Tony fucking Montana
neutral · AI labelView post →Guys, I think this show is supposed to be serious, I also think they named it The Shards.
negative · AI labelView post →Also the Shards of Magic series is criminally underrated. #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Y'all... I'm feeling pretty decent. Ish. Through the Shards of My Heart has a new cover that looks better than the original. I'll show it off in a couple days after I decide it's ultimately okay. Oh, and after I get approval from friends. Yay book things! #IndieAuthor #book
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that I finally got to read (and translate) all that Crashed said, I prepared my visual way to show the Shards starting to being moved from the Solo Event to the Victory Track, already in Season 27, and made something extra to be shared around #mcoc
neutral · AI labelView post →Three days until we reveal the cover for The Shards of the Moon (book 5 of my Slavic mythology meets epic fantasy series, The Frostmarked Chronicles)! This is the final book of the series, and I'm so excited to be finishing it off with a great ending and a cover that I think you're going to love.
neutral · AI labelView post →2026 might be my most tv-heavy year in a long time (I lose momentum so fast). Heated Rivalry, The Shards, Off Campus, the really bad Amazon Prime Cruel Intentions series, Crystal Lake... What else should I be watching (Below and Widows Bay are both on the list)
neutral · AI labelView post →i finally finished The Shards and it literally somehow got worse every episode? i've never watched a show that cared so deeply about aesthetics and literally nothing else. what a beautiful waste of time. nobody should watch this.
negative · AI labelView post →Most of the time, I realize only in retrospect that the network never CALLED the show a "limited series" and I just made the ASSUMPTION that there was no reasonable or justifiable reason why "The Shards" had to be an ongoing series.
negative · AI labelView post →Little Bee and I are watching The Shards on Hulu (great show), and it reminded us that in the 1980s, at 10 p.m., TV would ask parents, “Do you know where your children are?” I miss that kind of negligence. Mine knew where I said I was. As long as the school didn’t call, nobody was checking.
positive · AI labelView post →Missed the pop-up event for FX’s TV series The Shards at the Sherman Oaks Galleria? Didn’t get your own print copy of The Guide to Being Hot and Rich? No worries! Grab your free copy on Apple Books right now and fuel your ’80s nostalgia before the show! #booksky #theshards #80s @fxnetworks.com
neutral · AI labelView post →We're just one week from the release of The Shards of the Moon, the final book of my Slavic mythology fantasy series The Frostmarked Chronicles! I can't wait to share this book with you all as Otylia and Wacław embark on their ultimate quest to defeat the gods of winter and darkness...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Shards of the Moon features side character art of Ara, Kuba, and Narcyz for the first time! I couldn't let the series finish without including a Mariia Lytovchenko illustration of the characters who've been with Wacław and Otylia every step of the way.
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay I just watched the finale of The Shards and there was no kind of resolution at all. All of the characters in the interrogation room. Nothing truly happened in the episode. What the hell was the point of this series.
negative · AI labelView post →Igby Rigney as Bret Easton Ellis in The Shards #theshards #series #IgbyRigney #BretEastonEllis #1980s
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a scene from The Shards. First off, one thing Ryan is gonna do is have these white twinks show some skin. Second, this shower routine stopping at the calves??? Rage bait. Reawakening this feet washing convo again.
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