Television

The Shards 2026

Created by Ryan Murphy, Bret Easton Ellis

  • Drama, Mystery
  • 1 season
  • 9 episodes
  • Returning
  • TV-MA

If looks could kill.

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.

DramaMysterybased on novel or bookprivate schoollos angeles, californiapreparatory school1980sinspirationalteenagerexhilaratedseductiveFX

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Classical in form, unpretentious, effortless and grave.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • effortlessdemanding
  • gravecomic
  • sparerichly built

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