Scorchin' Summer Streamin' 26 - The Beauty - Season One

The Beauty is the latest Ryan Murphy series, this time teaming up with Matthew Hodgson.

The science fiction/body horror series is based on the comic book The Beauty, written by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley.

Starring American Horror favourite, Evan Peters, alongside Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Rebecca Hall, and Ashton Kutcher. Yes Ashton Kutcher is making a comeback!

The series streams on FX/Hulu, Disney+ which commenced in January, concluding yesterday with a double (short) episode finale.

So what's the drum?

A sexually transmitted treatment known as "the Beauty" spreads rapidly, granting users physical attractiveness through aesthetic-based genetic makeup while concealing lethal side effects that begin to overtake their lives. As deaths and public panic escalate, an FBI investigation and competing interests converge on the forces behind the drug and the epidemic it sparks.

Spoilers for episode eleven, read on at your own risk!

Tig and Gunther (without) consent dose Franny with the Beauty in an attempt to please their father, leading her to attempt suicide, though Byron has doctors keep her body stable with the regenerative properties of the Beauty. 

Meanwhile, Bella undergoes the Beauty procedure via sexual intercourse with a man named Conor, who had taken a second dose beforehand to increase the strength. Upon transforming, Bella's mother is horrified to find her with grotesque mutations. 

After Byron learns that the public and government no longer support the Beauty as a result of widely reported side-effects, he decides to halt sales and close down the operation to reinvest in cures and fixes, while providing boosters for free. 

Tig wishes to continue distributing the drug and inherit Byron's wealth, and enlists the help from Diana, Cooper, Jordan, the Assassin and Jeremy to assassinate him. In exchange, Cooper is given an untested drug to reverse the effects of the Beauty, and the others are startled when he emerges after transforming.

It leaves you on an Evan Peters cliffhanger that may or may not get resolved. Unlike All's Fair, there is no news of a second season as yet. However there are some reports of this being a miniseries.

Will we find out Evan Peters fate? Time will tell.

Either way I did enjoy these shorter episodes. It was a wild look at modern societies obsession with beauty. Who better after Nip/Tuck than Ryan Murphy to explore this world.

It's been a real Ryan Murphy season. Love Story is currently streaming on Friday's on Disney+, whilst The Shards is yet to stream.

Enjoy the weekend. It's the first full weekend of Autumn. A new blog series is incoming next month!