The Beauty Trailer Teases Ryan Murphy’s Dark, High-Fashion Sci-Fi Nightmare

Reel Perspectives

January 5, 2025

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The sizzling trailer for Ryan Murphy's new series "The Beauty" was released today, and it looks slick, twisted, and irresistibly bold. The trailer teases a glamorous nightmare where perfection comes at a terrifying cost, blending high-fashion visuals with unsettling sci-fi edge. With a razor-sharp premise, striking imagery, and that unmistakable Murphy flair for excess and provocation, The Beauty already feels daring, stylish, and wildly addictive.

Following the success of "All's Fair," which delivered Hulu's best streaming numbers in three years, the prolific director has teamed up with Matthew Hodgson to explore the dark realities of the fashion industry, where beauty comes at the ultimate price. The trailer features Ashton Kutcher as a sketchy tech billionaire who created the world's first super drug to make supermodels beautiful with disastrous side effects.

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The world of high fashion turns dark when international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways. FBI Agents "Cooper Madsen" (Evan Peters) and "Jordan Bennett" (Rebecca Hall) are sent to Paris to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into visions of physical perfection, but with terrifying consequences. Their path leads them directly into the crosshairs of "The Corporation" (Ashton Kutcher), a shadowy tech billionaire who has secretly engineered a miracle drug dubbed "The Beauty," who will do anything to protect his trillion-dollar empire—including unleashing his lethal enforcer, "The Assassin" (Anthony Ramos). As the epidemic spreads, "Jeremy" (Jeremy Pope), a desperate outsider, is caught in the chaos, searching for purpose as the agents race across Paris, Venice, Rome and New York to stop a threat that could alter the future of humanity.

With guest stars Bella Hadid, Isabella Rossellini, Ben Platt, Jessica Alexander and Vincent D'Onofrio, The Beauty is a global thriller that asks: what would you sacrifice for perfection?

'The Beauty' premieres Wednesday, January 21, at 9 p.m. ET on FX and Hulu with its first three episodes.

Watch the sizzling trailer below:

Created and written by Ryan Murphy & Matthew Hodgson, FX's The Beauty is executive produced by Murphy, Hodgson, Peters, Ramos, Pope, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Michael Uppendahl, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Gitter, Peter Schwerin and Jeremy Haun. It is based on the comic book series written by Haun and Jason A. Hurley, who serves as a consultant. The Beauty is produced by 20th Television.