Ryan Murphy adapts Bret Easton Ellis on Disney+: discover The Shards

A new trashy teen series to watch this summer.

Return to the halls of high school for Ryan Murphy.

The creator of Glee will be behind one of the most exciting series of the summer: The Shards, a teen drama adapted from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, Les Éclats (published in 2023), which will be available from August 6 on Disney+ in France.

Produced by Ryan Murphy and directly inspired by the best-seller by the author of American Psycho, the series promises a cocktail of suspense, desire, violence and obsession in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

At the center of the story is Bret (Igby Rigney), an observant teenager and aspiring writer, whose reality begins to waver with the arrival of a new student as mysterious as he is magnetic, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere). Arriving at the start of their final year of high school, Robert appears as a wave of terror sweeps through the city: a serial killer nicknamed The Trawler targets teenagers across Los Angeles.

Around Bret revolves an elitist social circle made up of Susan Reynolds (Kaia Gerber), Debbie Schaffer (Hayes Warner) and Thom Wright (Graham Campbell), a group as glamorous as they are deeply complex, drawn into a world of luxury, beauty, parties and excess of all kinds. Against the enthusiasm of their youth stands the dark and disillusioned world of the adults around them: Terry Schaffer (Wes Bentley), Liz Schaffer (Evan Rachel Wood) and Steven Reinhardt (Jordan Roth).

With its sulphurous atmosphere, its very 1980s decor and its plot combining adolescent chronicle and psychological thriller, The Shards is already shaping up to be one of the series events of the summer.