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The Shards on Disney+ review: Watchable and dreamily shallow but lacks suspense
The timing of the series feels right: part-Euphoria in its sex and drugs teen milieu (though weirdly chaste, in Murphy’s usual fashion), part-Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, with Manson references, and part-Heated Rivalry with its bland magazine eroticism. In fact, Murphy, forever style over content, is perfectly suited to this material: this is a watchable, dreamily shallow series about watchable, dreamily shallow kids, made by a watchable, dreamily shallow creator, which occasionally delivers on the horror. Suspense though? Sadly not, and that’s the real measure of excellence.
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