One of the first things Ryan Murphy’s TV adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards will make you ask is: where the hell are these kids’ parents? On paper, Murphy and Ellis might seem like opposites, but in The Shards, they find everything they have in common. For Murphy’s interpretation of The Shards, he assembled a combination of seasoned actors and the next wave of young Hollywood. The cast includes Kaia Gerber, returning to Murphy’s world after appearances in the American Horror Story franchise, as the reluctantly perfect Susan Reynolds. Photograph: FXThe Shards clearly demands attention with its classic cocktail of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, though it leans heaviest towards the drugs.