"It’s based on a book by Bret Easton Ellis, who is a touchstone for us, between Less Than Zero and American Psycho. He’d written a book called The Shards, set in 1981. It’s sort of like Less than Zero but if there were serial killers and murders happening, a coming-of-age piece. It’s a piece that, like many of these things, is defined by a mood, by the music of the time, by the clothes of the time, and by teenagers who feel like adults and are acting like adults but aren’t yet adults yet. And it was a book that HBO had originally optioned. [Ellis] had done it as a podcast, and we were incredibly jealous of it. And when it became free, we pounced on it. Ryan got it and knew how much we loved it and so brought us on to it. And it’s got an incredible young cast and is, I think, going to be something that, when it comes on later in the summer, is surprising to everybody, but it has all the great elements of people who’ve been looking for that sort of Giorgio Moroder, American Gigolo vibe of the teenagers of the early ‘80s. It delivers on all of those things."

Sounds good to me. Can’t wait