Bret Easton Ellis
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Sep 14, 2026
Steven T. HanleyHOST
We're huge fans of that movie and Zwigoff in the D Prince Movies household.
Steven T. HanleyHOST
And he's directed two movies himself, Teen Spirit and Shell, and he's just directed two episodes of The Shards based on the incredible novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
Steven T. HanleyHOST
So, lots of Bret Easton Ellis talk on the podcast, more than usual.
Steven T. HanleyHOST
We really get into it.
Steven T. HanleyHOST
And amazing conversation about Tony Scott.
Steven T. HanleyHOST
Um-
Max MinghellaGUEST
But what did you think as a, as a fan of the book, and what was it-
Steven T. HanleyHOST
I, I'm a Bret Easton Ellis obsessive, so I was very excited for it.
Matthew PetersUNKNOWN
They're both on a show? They're both on a show called Shards.
Matthew PetersUNKNOWN
It's a Brett Easton Ellis thing.
Matthew PetersUNKNOWN
I
H. FoleyGUEST
like the jeans that kid was wearing.
Ed LevineHOST
So you guys talked about the middleman- So talk about Dorsia and the others and what you found when you either tried to use them or talked to people who used them, and why did they come into being?
Adam ChandlerGUEST
Well, first of all, anyone who's seen the movie, uh, American Psycho or, or read the book by Bret Easton Ellis knows that Dorsia is the impossible to reach restaurant in the book that is the ultimate reservation, and it's, it's held up as parody.
Adam ChandlerGUEST
And so the fact that there is now a middleman reservation capturing platform that will swoop in and grab you those tables at the impossible place called Dorsia is kind of emblematic of the craziness of the story.
Adam ChandlerGUEST
The middlemen that have jumped into the reservation apps are, you know, individuals looking to make a buck by flipping a reservation that they've secured at a high-end restaurant for hundreds and even thousands of dollars.
Fenton BaileyHOST
I actually didn't find it was that much poison pan.
Fenton BaileyHOST
I can understand Natalie Portman isn't delighted with it, but it's written in a very minimalistic style, very sort of objective style, almost like sort of Bret Easton Ellis.
Fenton BaileyHOST
What was his first novel called? Less Than Zero.
Fenton BaileyHOST
Less
Heather ParryGUEST
experiencing all kinds of wild things in the expat community.
Heather ParryGUEST
So I sat down and decided I wanted to be a novelist and wrote a novel based on that, which was kind of very Bret Easton Ellis kind of tinged novel.
Heather ParryGUEST
um and that was i got an agent for that novel and then i decided not to try and sell it because it was way too close to real things that had happened
KateHOST
to real people
David YontefHOST
So you can do it, and it could be somebody, and then someone else could get like an idea to continue it or something.
Jason ZephyrGUEST
Well, he, he wrote, I think he wrote American Psycho and Fight Club, or American Psycho, right? Bret Easton Ellis, for sure.
Jason ZephyrGUEST
So I think-
David YontefHOST
Less than Zero, that's all I know.
Graham HuntGUEST
I think it was called The Rules of Attraction or something like that.
Graham HuntGUEST
It was based on a Bret Easton Ellis book.
Graham HuntGUEST
And I remember not really thinking...
Graham HuntGUEST
I'm thinking the movie was pretty bad, but it started with this song.
Media MelanieHOST
You're going to have to keep watching if you want to get any answers.
Media MelanieHOST
And still, I don't think that's even a guarantee.
Media MelanieHOST
And we still have no idea if Brett or Robert are even involved in some of these crimes.
Media MelanieHOST
Welcome back to Media Melanie TV, where I cover shows worth talking about.
Media MelanieHOST
And yes, major spoilers ahead for The Shards, Episode 9, Stairway to Heaven.
Media MelanieHOST
And they didn't even take the biggest swing of all and actually have Terry meet his demise.
Media MelanieHOST
Seemingly, he survived and may be able to just name the person who pushed him.
Media MelanieHOST
But What really got me was a line by Brett, which basically said, to this day, we still don't know who pushed Terry.
speaker_39UNKNOWN
Being a teenager in 1981 was perhaps the last moment of our youth.
Alicia VitarelliCORRESPONDENT
In The Shards, FX and Ryan Murphy bring Bret Easton Ellis' best-selling novel to the screen as elite prep school seniors find themselves in danger.
speaker_39UNKNOWN
I had no idea that my friends and I would be hunted by perhaps the most insane serial killer ever.
speaker_10UNKNOWN
Tell me about this story.
Julia GrayHOST
because
Drew HaskinsHOST
I think that he saw how truly hurt Amira was like there is something very not to bring it back to the shards but like Charlie is very sort of Brett Easton or brett brett easton brett easton l's character ask about that was a mouthful in that like he is really numb and i think gets surprised sometimes when other people are not numb
Julia GrayHOST
yeah that's a good point that's not an
Drew HaskinsHOST
excuse but
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