Glamour Meets Gore: Murphy’s The Beauty Delivers Style and Scrutiny

Ryan Murphy’s FX series The Beauty, adapted from a comic, fuses fashion-world spectacle with body-horror as a virus turns people into the most perfect version of themselves. Following a Paris runway incident, FBI agents investigate a shadowy corporation and a drug-driven epidemic that shifts identity and power. The 11-episode first season, now streaming with the first three episodes on Hulu/FX and the rest released weekly, sports a star-studded cast (Peters, Hall, Kutcher, Ramos, Pope, Hadid) and sharp visuals, but it’s uneven in pacing and criticizes beauty as capital with a race-related misstep noted by reviewers. Still, it remains an entertaining, largely stylish watch that invites debate about aesthetics, greed, and governance in a biotech age.