{"id":36250,"date":"2026-07-14T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/the-shards-trailer-brings-sex-drugs-and-death-to-fx-this-august\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:15:21","slug":"the-shards-trailer-brings-sex-drugs-and-death-to-fx-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/the-shards-trailer-brings-sex-drugs-and-death-to-fx-this-august\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Shards&#8217; Trailer Brings Sex, Drugs, and Death to FX this August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"caption-text\">Courtesy of FX<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sex, drugs, death\u2026now that\u2019s a party! One that <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong> (<em>American Horror Story<\/em>) is set to unleash on FX this August with <em><strong>The Shards<\/strong><\/em>, which has a stylish new trailer out today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the\u00a0<strong>Bret Easton Ellis<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>American Psycho<\/em>) novel, the dark coming of age series is set in Los Angeles in the 1980s and \u201cfollows Bret (<strong>Igby Rigney<\/strong>), an aspiring writer whose high school life begins to unravel when the arrival of a new student, Robert Mallory (<strong>Homer Gere<\/strong>), coincides with the growing terror of the Trawler, a serial killer stalking teenagers across the Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs Bret\u2019s imagination spirals, so does his relationship with his girlfriend Debbie (<strong>Hayes Warner<\/strong>) and friends Susan Reynolds (<strong>Kaia Gerber<\/strong>) and Thom Wright (<strong>Graham Campbell<\/strong>). As the group navigates senior year of high school \u2014 and the wealth and drug-fueled excess of L.A. private school culture \u2014 their youth is further compromised by the transgressions of the adults in their orbit: Terry Schaffer (<strong>Wes Bentley<\/strong>), Liz Schaffer (<strong>Evan Rachel Wood<\/strong>), and Steven Reinhardt (<strong>Jordan Roth<\/strong>).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside Murphy, executive producers include Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Ellis, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Tanase Popa, Nick Hall, Michael Uppendahl, Max Winkler, Kathleen McCaffrey, and Brian Young. 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