Reviews Released for FX Adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' 'The Shards'
Reviews have been released for FX's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel 'The Shards,' with critics offering varied opinions on the series. The show, which explores themes of murder, sex, and drugs in 1980s Los Angeles, features a strong lead performance but has been criticized for losing the novel's bite.
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The Shards review – murder, 80s mayhem and the Ryan Murphy comeback we’ve been waiting for
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. It looks as though Ryan Murphy has pulled out of his dive and is beginning to find his glorious groove again. The uber-showrunner reached a nadir last year with All’s Fair, a legal drama that was so bad it was existentially awful, garnering a number of rare, zero-star reviews (including ...
By Lucy Mangan
Read full article →FX’s Adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘The Shards’ Can’t Be Saved by a Strong Lead Performance: TV Review
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 detached prose style embodies the shameless materialism of its Reagan era setting with an obsessive catalog of proper nouns: what kind of cars its characters drive; the brand of clothes […]
By Alisoncolleherman
Read full article →‘The Shards’ Review: Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis Team Up for FX’s Predictably Excess-Soaked Tale of Prep-School Sex, Drugs and Murder
Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell and Kaia Gerber lead this series adaptation of Ellis' loosely autobiographical novel set in early-'80s Los Angeles.
By Daniel Fienberg
Read full article →‘The Shards’ review: ‘American Psycho’ author’s stabby meta-memoir is an LA horror story
Created by Ryan Murphy, this ten-part series is set against the sinister backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles The post ‘The Shards’ review: ‘American Psycho’ author’s stabby meta-memoir is an LA horror story appeared first on NME.
By James Mottram
Read full article →The Shards Review: FX & Ryan Murphy's Glossy Adaptation Loses The Novel's Bite
Ryan Murphy adapts Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards, losing the novel's sharp edge in the process by leaning into the teen drama elements of the series.
By Graeme Guttmann
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