I reviewed the new Ryan Murphy FX series adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ last novel The Shards for Slant Magazine:

Set in 1981, Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 novel The Shards is a metafictional, richly stylized gothic horror take on teen melodrama that takes itself just seriously enough. Things start with Bret himself, played by Igby Rigney, narrating seemingly from his present-day adulthood about a “season of horror” when he was a teenager. Some of his friends survived, he says, “but none of us made it out alive” …

Here’s the trailer: