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FX Releases Full Trailer for Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Beauty’ Ahead of Jan. 21 Premiere

The sci-fi body-horror thriller follows FBI agents tracking a perfection-granting virus to a ruthless tech billionaire.

Overview

  • FX unveiled the first full-length trailer on Jan. 5, setting up the show’s U.S. debut on FX and Hulu with international streaming on Disney+.
  • The series launches Jan. 21 at 9 p.m. ET with three episodes, then rolls out weekly across an 11-episode season with two-episode final weeks.
  • Ashton Kutcher plays “The Corporation,” a tech mogul behind a so-called miracle treatment, with Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall as FBI investigators and Anthony Ramos as a lethal enforcer.
  • Based on the comic by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, the globe-trotting plot spans Paris, Venice, Rome, and New York as an epidemic of beauty turns deadly.
  • Coverage notes audience and press comparisons to The Substance and frames the show as a critique of quick-fix and vanity culture.