Gripping TV Shows Like The Shards to Watch Next

FX’s The Shards is set to be an easy binge for fans of glossy, high-stakes teen dramas filled with secrets and heightened suspense. The series pairs TV producer Ryan Murphy with author Bret Easton Ellis, drawing on Ellis’s 2023 novel of the same name. It’s described as a semi-autobiographical, heavily fictionalized account of Ellis’s final year at a Los Angeles high school in 1981. The cast includes Igby Rigney as a teen version of Ellis at the elite Buckley School, with Homer Gere as transfer student Robert Mallory and Kaia Gerber as Susan Reynolds. Evan Rachel Wood and Wes Bentley play Debbie Schafer’s parents, Liz and Terry. The article then points to five similar shows to watch next.