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Positive:
18
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
Jan 21, 2026The TelegraphJan 21, 2026
Jan 21, 2026
RogerEbert.comJan 21, 2026
Season 1 Review:
All in all, this show is best appreciated as a wild ride. Murphy excels at world-building, and his skills are on full display here. Yes, there are some annoying tics (like overusing the theme song), but the show, for all its faults, is still an immersive experience.
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Jan 21, 2026
Jan 21, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Some storylines are meant to be poignant but are overwhelmed by the weirdness or feel exploitative, or the characters aren’t dimensional enough to move you. There are plot twists, of course, and rejiggerings, but it’s too obvious to be really terrifying; the game is given away early. .... At the same time, there’s enough nonsense, edging into ridiculousness, that the series might best be approached as a black action-comedy — at the end of the opening scene, the gendarmes are splattered with pieces of supermodel — or a very fancy B (maybe C) picture. “Star Wars” built an empire on the latter.
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What's Alan Watching?May 4, 2026
Season 1 Review:
For a while, watching the highlights are worth sitting through the lowlights. How many other shows can have an Emmy winner (Peters, so great on Mare of Easttown) casually deliver a line like, "an assistant editor at Vogue combusted in the Condé Nast cafeteria today"? But even in the early going, Murphy, Hodgson, and company struggle to find a narrative focus, and they let the story completely unravel by the end.
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Jan 21, 2026
Jan 21, 2026
Season 1 Review:
One of Murphy’s most thought-full (if not thoughtful) shows in years. It’s highly debatable how many of those thoughts are fresh or original or fully examined, but it’s a busy show that will keep many viewers occupied trying to make sense of its breadcrumb trail of familiar ideas and familiar twists and turns.
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Radio TimesJan 21, 2026
Season 1 Review:
While the likes of The Substance and Dead Ringers offer in-depth explorations of their character’s psychological struggles (through extended and escalating body horror), The Beauty pales in comparison, offering only surface-level insight into the interiority of the characters. .... The series is also visually stunning – as fans will have come to expect from a Murphy production – and has a great cast.
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ColliderJan 21, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Considering the show ends on a brutal cliffhanger, there is hope for a second season that will only succeed if it tightens its grip on the storytelling. Despite its kitchen sink of ideas, there is still plenty to gain from watching the series, including beautifully grotesque instances of body horror, oddball storylines, and novel performances.
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Jan 21, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The production design and color palette are simultaneously ostentatious and bland, and rather than keeping the virus’s origins mysterious and focusing instead on its societal implications, the series lays out a rudimentary global conspiracy. .... The characters, when they’re not cliché-ridden blank slates, are universally reprehensible, and neither psychologically complex nor funny enough to sustain our interest.
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