The Beauty
tv·TV-MA·Jan 21, 2026·
The Beauty is low-woke (3/10): pulpy gore satire on vanity and beauty culture with organic diversity, no preachy politics—just story-driven thrills.
"The Beauty" is a Ryan Murphy body horror thriller adapted from a comic book, revolving around a deadly STD that beautifies victims before gruesomely killing them, with FBI agents Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall investigating Ashton Kutcher's tech billionaire antagonist.
The series features organic diversity in its ensemble, including Jeremy Pope and Anthony Ramos, while satirizing vanity, Ozempic culture, and beauty industry obsessions through gore and excess, without overt social justice lectures or identity politics. Season 1 earns a 3/10 rating amid mixed reception (74% critics, 65% audience on Rotten Tomatoes), with backlash focusing on poor quality, comic book deviations, and unoriginality rather than ideological issues, allowing pulpy entertainment to take precedence.
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We've run a full content analysis on The Beauty and scored it 3/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content. Learn more about our methodology →
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