FX Releases Trailer for The Beauty Sci-Fi Series

FX has released the trailer for "The Beauty," a new sci-fi thriller series created by Ryan Murphy that explores the dark side of physical perfection through a mysterious drug with deadly consequences. The show, starring Ashton Kutcher as a tech billionaire behind the substance, is set to premiere on January 21 with the first three episodes, followed by weekly installments on FX and Hulu.

The series centers on a global epidemic sparked by The Beauty, a miracle drug that transforms users into ideals of beauty but spreads as a sexually transmitted virus with fatal side effects. Supermodels begin dying in gruesome, unexpected ways, prompting an investigation by FBI agents Cooper Madsen, played by Evan Peters, and Jordan Bennett, portrayed by Rebecca Hall. Their probe takes them from Paris to Venice, Rome, and New York, where they uncover the involvement of Kutcher's character, a shadowy figure known as The Corporation. He deploys a lethal enforcer, The Assassin, played by Anthony Ramos, to safeguard his trillion-dollar empire.

"It's an STD that people will actually want," Kutcher's character declares in the trailer, lounging on a yacht while promoting the drug as the ultimate...