The Beauty

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Season 1
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 21, 2026
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 32
  3. Negative: 3 out of 32

Critic Reviews

  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Kelly Lawler
    Jan 21, 2026
    37
    With muddied messaging and a preoccupation with the beauty standards it is seemingly critiquing, "Beauty" fails to be anything substantial.
  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Jan 21, 2026
    33
    Despite setting aside any pretense of being taken seriously, there’s scant material to be savored across 11 repetitive episodes.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Michael Savio
    Jan 21, 2026
    12
    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.