Ryan Murphy is one of modern television’s most successful impresarios. And his fondness for gory, tawdry, titillating, campy horror stories continues unabated with The Beauty, an FX series (January 21, also on Hulu) that co-stars Ashton Kutcher in a remixed variation on his ex-wife Demi Moore’s acclaimed 2024 feature The Substance.
A sturdy bounce-back after last year’s All’s Fair,Murphy’s latest borrows bits and pieces of Moore’s recent big-screen hit and synthesizes it with elements of The Fly, Seven, Aliens, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Matrix to concoct a satire that’s obvious, unoriginal, and yet not without its lurid and flamboyant pleasures.
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