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How to watch Ryan Murphy’s new show ‘The Shards’ for free: Release date, cast
Deterministic text analytics computed across all 7 sources. Frequency, entity overlap, and claim overlap — computed counts only. Nothing is rated true or false.
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Frequency Analytics
The most common words and exact phrases across every report in this cluster. Computed counts only.
Top words
murphyryanshardselliseastonbretadaptationserialserieskiller
Top phrases
ryan murphybret easton elliseaston ellisbret eastonserial killermurphy and bret easton ellisryan murphy and bret eastonmurphy and bret eastonryan murphy and bretteen serial killer
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Entity Overlap
Names detected in the report text: which appear across multiple sources, and which only one source mentions.
Across multiple sources
- Ryan Murphy · 4 sources
- The Shards · 4 sources
- Bret Easton Ellis · 2 sources
- Los Angeles · 2 sources
Unique to one source
- Ryan Murphy’s · Page Six
- Release · Page Six
- The Shards’ TV Series Online · Rolling Stone
- Free · Rolling Stone
- Bret Easton Ellis’s · Rolling Stone
- Over · The A.V. Club
- American Psycho · The A.V. Club
- Patrick Bateman · The A.V. Club
- Bret Easton Ellis' FX · Time
- Ellis · Time
- Igby Rigney · Time
- Beverly Hills · IndieWire
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Claim Overlap
Near-identical sentences found in two or more reports, versus sentences that appear in only one. Text match only — nothing is rated true or false.
Repeated across sources
No sentence appeared in more than one source.
Appears once
- "The thriller is set in early-'80s Los Angeles and surrounds a group of privileged prep school teens." · The Hollywood Reporter
- "Bret Easton Ellis’s best-selling novel gets the Ryan Murphy treatment in this new FX series Bret Easton Ellis’s best-selling novel gets the Ryan Murphy treatment in this new FX series" · Rolling Stone
- "The unwieldy, oddly compelling adaptation takes a few too many creative liberties with is source material." · The A.V. Club
- "Bret Easton Ellis has a knack for crafting unlikable protagonists." · The A.V. Club
- "Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis' FX adaptation of Ellis' '80s teen serial killer novel never grasps the poignancy it's reaching for Igby Rigney and Hayes Warner in The Shards —Ray Mickshaw—FX A fruitful collaboration between Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis sounds, at once, inevitable and impossible." · Time
- "Murphy is a maximalist in every sense—a superproducer pumping out show after operatic show , writing characters who say the quiet part of every story out loud—and one of TV’s most influential promoters of inclusive , identity-politics-driven programming." · Time
- "Set in 1980s Beverly Hills, the first season of FX's new drama series follows a quartet of rich teens whose idyllic adolescence is upended by the arrival of a mysterious "boy" — and a serial killer." · IndieWire