Reagan-Era Los Angeles, As Some Palm Beachers Actually Remember It

The 1980s L.A. that "The Shards" recreates on screen — absent parents, wild nights, close calls — reads less like invention and more like memory to a certain generation who summered west before they wintered here. Palm Beach has long welcomed those who lived that decade in full and arrived on the island wiser for it.

With reporting from Town & Country.