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  "title": "FX’s Adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘The Shards’ Can’t Be Saved by a Strong Lead Performance: TV Review",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/fxs-adaptation-of-bret-easton-ellis-the-shards-cant-be-saved-by-a",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-05T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
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    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/reviews/the-shards-review-ryan-murphy-fx-1236827733/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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 […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Hollywood Reporter",
        "title": "‘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",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/the-shards-review-ryan-murphy-and-bret-easton-ellis-team-up-for-fxs",
        "published": "2026-08-05T15:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "IndieWire",
        "title": "‘The Shards’ Review: Ryan Murphy’s Unboring Bret Easton Ellis Adaptation Never Comes Together",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/the-shards-review-ryan-murphys-unboring-bret-easton-ellis-adaptation",
        "published": "2026-08-05T15:00:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "‘The Shards’ Review: Ryan Murphy Waters Down Bret Easton Ellis to Make His Own Murderous ‘Euphoria’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/the-shards-review-ryan-murphy-waters-down-bret-easton-ellis-to-make",
        "published": "2026-08-05T15:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "‘The Shards’ Star Igby Rigney on Wooing Ryan Murphy, Never Meeting Bret Easton Ellis and Not Worrying About Sex Scenes: ‘It’s Like Doing a Dance Under a Microscope’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/the-shards-star-igby-rigney-on-wooing-ryan-murphy-never-meeting-bret",
        "published": "2026-08-06T03:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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