The Shards

About The Shards

17-year-old Bret Easton Ellis is in his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending his world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.

FX's The Shards is a mystery series. Since August 2026 it has reached one season of 9 episodes.

Its themes are teenager, exhilarated, private school, and inspirational. It is adapted from a novel. Igby Rigney leads the cast as Bret Easton Ellis, Kaia Gerber as Susan Reynolds, Homer Gere as Robert Mallory, and Hayes Warner as Debbie Schaffer.

It comes from Color Force and Ryan Murphy Television. It streams on fuboTV, Hulu, and YouTube TV in the United States.

True Blood, Snowfall, and Generation Kill make useful companions to The Shards, all filed under 1980s. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 75 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.