SummaryFBI Agents Cooper Madsen (Evan Peters) and Jordan Bennett (Rebecca Hall) investigate a series of model deaths in France. Their investigation uncovers a sexually transmitted virus and leads them to a billionaire known as "The Corporation" (Ashton Kutcher), who has created a miracle drug called "The Beauty" in the Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson th... Read More
Created By:Matthew Hodgson, Ryan Murphy
The Beauty
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 21, 2026
Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
User score
Generally Favorable
6.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
55% Positive
17 Reviews
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35% Mixed
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Jan 21, 2026
90
The Beauty is an opulent spectacle that is so profoundly addictive and completely captivating that it is, without a doubt, Ryan Murphy's best project to date.
Jan 23, 2026
75
Ryan Murphy’s deliciously demented new series zips past “The Substance” to deliver its own serial-killing take on body horror. It’s a dose of fresh hell for the Ozempic era.
User score
Generally Favorable
63% Positive
20 Ratings
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16% Mixed
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22% Negative
7 Ratings
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Feb 21, 2026
10
I didn't read the comic and don't intend to do so. However I watched and rewatched every episode of the show and it's fantastic. The show is not about people becoming beautiful, although there is quite a lot about that on the surface, it is about revealing the idealized self. That's how we end up with Antonio still scarred on his left eye, Clara revealed as beautiful woman, and so on. The way the show handles the virus is also quite telling that unlike Pluribus, there is no magical transmission: it's body fluids and the authorities are on the case from the moment an anomaly has been detected. Just for these two points I give this show 20 out of 10. If we add the casting, the acting, the music, the photography I could add even more points. It's just fantastic. I love it!
Jan 23, 2026
10
Great acting and directing. The story sounded cheap from the trailers but it's actually addicting. Evan Peters is really incredible. Good old Ryan Murphy!
Jan 21, 2026
70
The Beauty puts all of its ideas on the surface of the story, leaving little room for interpretation or ambiguity. But it’s so entertaining—and feels so timely without being a doomy drag—that it seems uncharitable to complain that it isn’t a masterpiece.
Jan 21, 2026
68
In a cascading series of unmotivated twists, enemies team up, a villain has an unconvincing change of heart and the whole thing ends on a frustrating cliffhanger. But give Murphy and company credit: “The Beauty” may be semi-hollow headed, but it’s never boring.
Jan 21, 2026
60
The Beauty is about as subtle as a root canal without Novocain, but thankfully it’s a lot more fun. If you can stomach it.
Jan 23, 2026
40
“The Beauty” merely reinforces Murphy’s distasteful infatuation with mixing nudity, violence and (several times) nude violence—a sort of Reese’s peanut butter cup that puts lurid taste treats together.
Jan 21, 2026
12
The production design and color palette are simultaneously ostentatious and bland, and rather than keeping the virus’s origins mysterious and focusing instead on its societal implications, the series lays out a rudimentary global conspiracy. .... The characters, when they’re not cliché-ridden blank slates, are universally reprehensible, and neither psychologically complex nor funny enough to sustain our interest.
Feb 9, 2026
8
That’s model Bella Hadid in the photo that accompanies this review. She opens the series playing a model who demonstrates the deadly results of a new drug that makes the recipient young and beautiful. It’s great while it lasts, but ends up with the person exploding…literally. If it sounds a bit outrageous, consider that it’s from the creative cranium of Ryan Murphy. Like the graphics that announce each glam city in large type, this series takes big swings in concept and execution. Being that it’s Murphy, you can expect outrageous moments, intense violence, hot sex and plenty of shirtless buff men. There is also a plot or two: Evan Peters plays the FBI agent trying to find the source of this potential plague, Anthony Ramos is the charmingly evil contract killer stamping out unwanted patients and Ashton Kutcher turns out to be the baddest. The series makes wild wicked fun at the current obsession with looks and is Murphy at his sensationalist best. (Review based on 4 out of 11 one-hour eps)
Mar 15, 2026
4
Just another dumb and derivative Ryan Murphy series obsessed with morbid content and mid shock value. This is the ugly and evil baby of 'The Substance,' 'Black Mirror,' 'The X-Files,' and 'The Neon Demon.'
