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'The Shards' turns prep school into a nightmare in Ryan Murphy's FX thriller

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Ryan Murphy's latest FX series, "The Shards," transports viewers to 1980s Los Angeles, where privilege, wealth and fear collide in a suspense-filled adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' bestselling novel.

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  1. ABC 13 Houston

    'The Shards' turns prep school into a nightmare in Ryan Murphy's FX thriller (opens ABC 13 Houston)

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    Ryan Murphy's latest FX series, "The Shards," transports viewers to 1980s Los Angeles, where privilege, wealth and fear collide in a suspense-filled adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' bestselling novel.

  2. The New Yorker

    Ryan Murphy’s Sanded-Down Version of “The Shards” (opens The New Yorker)

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    The director’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s metafictional thriller-slash-gay-awakening story is a “Glee”-ified version of its source material.

  3. Time

    Ryan Murphy’s Teen Serial Killer Thriller The Shards Gets Stuck in the Shallow End (opens Time)

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    Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis' FX adaptation of Ellis' '80s teen serial killer novel never grasps the poignancy it's reaching for

  4. The Guardian

    The Shards review – murder, 80s mayhem and the Ryan Murphy comeback we’ve been waiting for (opens The Guardian)

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    Murphy is back on form with this gorgeously curated, shot and scored adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel – about a serial killer stalking privileged LA teenagers The world can finally begin to hope again.

  5. Variety

    Ryan Murphy on Toning Down Sex in ‘The Shards’ and Why L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Could Do a ‘Much Better Job’ Bringing Productions Back to Hollywood (opens Variety)

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    FX’s “The Shards,” Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis thriller novel, is a love letter to Los Angeles. Filming there, he told his producers, was a non-negotiable. “We shot it in L.A. and, of course, it could have shot in Canada,” the showrunner told Variety at “The Shards” New York pr…

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