Overview
- The Shards premieres Wednesday, August 5, with two episodes on FX and will be available to stream on Hulu and Disney+, marking the series launch across Disney’s TV platforms.
- Igby Rigney leads as Bret and Homer Gere plays the unsettling new student Robert Mallory, with a supporting ensemble that includes Kaia Gerber, Wes Bentley, Evan Rachel Wood, Hayes Warner and Graham Campbell.
- Kaia Gerber holds a producer credit on the show and Hayes Warner contributes original music, with promotion stressing the series’ period production design and soundtrack as selling points.
- Homer Gere is presented as a rising actor in one of his first major TV roles and is identified in coverage as the son of Richard Gere and Carey Lowell, a detail that frame his casting as part of the series’ legacy‑casting story.
- Built from Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 novel and retooled for FX under Ryan Murphy, the ten‑episode drama uses a sun‑soaked 1981 Los Angeles setting to explore youth, privilege, secrecy and a central mystery about a serial killer called The Trawler.