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  "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",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-06T03:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
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    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/the-shards-igby-rigney-bret-easton-ellis-1236828415/"
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  "summary": "Igby Rigney is exhausted. It’s a day before “The Shards” launches, and he’s just gotten back from Berlin, the final stop of a global press tour that also took him to New York and London. When the series debuts on FX on Aug. 5, he’ll be celebrating at the official launch party at a roller […]",
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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"
      },
      {
        "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": "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",
        "published": "2026-08-05T15:00:00.000Z"
      }
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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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