Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall Hunt a Deadly “Beauty” Virus in The Beauty Trailer
Ryan Murphy is back with another genre title, and this time, he’s in body-horror mode. FX has officially released the first full trailer for The Beauty, a new sci-fi thriller that turns modern “perfection culture” into a literal contagion, with Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall playing FBI agents trying to contain a crisis that looks glossy on the surface and grotesque underneath.
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Set against the fashion world, the series begins as international models start dying in violent, unexplained ways. Peters’ Cooper Madsen and Hall’s Jordan Bennett are pulled into an investigation that leads to a “miracle” product: a beauty-enhancing drug that can make people physically ideal, but is tied to a sexually transmitted virus with catastrophic consequences.
The trailer leans hard into Murphy’s favorite collision of prestige sheen and pulp nightmare. There are runway lights, hushed boardrooms, and sudden splashes of gore, plus the implication that the outbreak is not an accident. Ashton Kutcher appears as a powerful billionaire figure linked to the drug’s rollout, while Anthony Ramos shows up as a lethal operator with proximity to the conspiracy.
The Beauty is adapted from the Image Comics series by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley. In earlier interviews about the project, Murphy framed it as commentary on “Ozempic culture” and the broader fixation on rapid, drug-assisted transformation (with definitive similarities to The Substance). FX will premiere The Beauty on January 21, 2026. The first three episodes drop immediately, with the remaining episodes rolling out weekly.
Until then, check out the official trailer for FX’s The Beauty, included below.
