{"id":762678,"date":"2026-07-14T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762678\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:27:09","slug":"the-shards-trailer-fx-show-has-drugs-sex-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762678\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Shards&#8217; Trailer: FX Show Has Drugs, Sex and Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDrugs, sex and murder are the backdrop of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-shards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-shards\" data-tag=\"the-shards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Shards<\/a>,\u201d Ryan Murphy\u2019s upcoming drama series based on the Bret Easton Ellis thriller novel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFX released a trailer for the show, which premieres with two episodes on Aug. 5 on the cable channel and Hulu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Shards\u201d follows a group of rich teenagers indulging in the excesses of \u201980s private-school culture in Los Angeles as a serial killer closes in. When the arrival of a new student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), coincides with a string of grisly murders across the San Fernando Valley, the narrator, Bret (Igby Rigney), seeks to get to the bottom of the mystery before it\u2019s too late for him and his friends. In the trailer, Bret attempts to convince his friends that Robert is a \u201cpsycho\u201d as the horrifying violence creeps closer to their tight-knit circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe series also stars Kaia Gerber as Susan Reynolds, Hayes Warner as Debbie Schaffer and Graham Campbell as Thom Wright. Plus, Wes Bentley plays Terry Schaffer, Evan Rachel Wood is Liz Schaffer and Jordan Roth portrays Steven Reinhardt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show is co-created by Murphy (\u201cMonster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,\u201d \u201cLove Story\u201d) and Ellis (\u201cLess Than Zero,\u201d \u201cAmerican Psycho\u201d), who wrote the scripts based on Ellis\u2019 autofictional 2023 bestseller. They executive produce alongside Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Ellis, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Tanase Popa, Nick Hall, Michael Uppendahl, Max Winkler, Kathleen McCaffrey and Brian Young. The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the trailer for \u201cThe Shards\u201d below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drugs, sex and murder are the backdrop of \u201cThe Shards,\u201d Ryan Murphy\u2019s upcoming drama series based on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,247476],"class_list":["post-762678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-the-shards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}