United States | 2026 | 9 episodes | Erotic Thriller Desire Meets Murder in 1980s Los Angeles The Shards transports viewers to Los Angeles in 1981, where privileged high-school students move through a world of desire, secrecy and excess while a serial killer terrorizes the city. Created for television by Ryan Murphy and based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel, the series combines coming-of-age drama with an increasingly dangerous erotic mystery. Igby Rigney leads as Bret Easton Ell