This week’s highest-rated Guardian culture reviews range across television, film, music, theatre and books, with Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards and Phoebe Bridgers’s new album among the standout recommendations.

– The Shards (Disney+) is praised as a slick serial-killer drama set among Los Angeles private-school pupils.
– Sterling Point (Prime Video) offers an escapist young-adult drama about inheritance, self-discovery and island life.
– The Salisbury Poisonings (Sky Documentaries and Now) examines the Skripal attack through interviews including Theresa May and Amber Rudd.
– Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey (Channel 4) follows the actor’s reflective, visually rich journey through Homeric landscapes.
– How to Feed a Dictator is a documentary featuring chefs who worked for figures including Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein.