“One thing is clear. Kids today have it damn easy. Being a teenager today is hard because you have to manage puberty, sexuality, and online harassment. But our generation had it tougher: we had to face serial killers”. These are some of the initial words of the narrator and protagonist of The shards, the television adaptation signed by Ryan Murphy of the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho or The rules of engagement. There is, therefore, a clear vindication of Generation X and the traumas it carries.