Ryan Murphy Serial Killer Series ‘The Shards’ Slashes onto Screens this August on FX and Hulu

Ryan Murphy‘s (“American Horror Story”) dark coming of age serial killer series, “The Shards“, has set an August release date at FX and Hulu, reports Variety.

Based on the Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) novel, the series is set in Los Angeles in the 1980s and “follows Bret (Igby Rigney), an aspiring writer whose high school life begins to unravel when the arrival of a new student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), coincides with the growing terror of the Trawler, a serial killer stalking teenagers across the Valley.”

The Trawler, eh? Any relation to I Know What You Did Last Summer‘s Fisherman? Probably not, but they sound like they’d get along.

“As Bret’s imagination spirals, so does his relationship with his girlfriend Debbie (Hayes Warner) and friends Susan Reynolds (Kaia Gerber) and Thom Wright (Graham Campbell). As the group navigates senior year of high school — and the wealth and drug-fueled excess of L.A. private school culture — their youth is further compromised by the transgressions of the adults in their orbit: Terry Schaffer (Wes Bentley), Liz Schaffer (Evan Rachel Wood) and Steven Reinhardt (Jordan Roth).”

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. The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.

The outlet notes that a previous adaptation of the book was in development at HBO with director Luca Guadagnino (Suspiria) attached, but Murphy took over in 2025 and brought on director Max Winkler.

“The Shards” will premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5th at 6 p.m. PT.