New TV Series The Beauty is a Bloody Satire on the Cost of Perfection

When I heard that Bella Hadid was making her acting debut, I knew I had to tune in. But what unfolded was less than spectacular. The Beauty, a Disney+ TV series in the body-horror genre created by Ryan Murphy and Matt Hodgson, painfully reexamines a well-trodden Hollywood plotline: the pursuit of perfection (and the tensions of such).

The storyline follows two FBI agents — played by Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall — as they investigate a sexually transmitted treatment dubbed ‘the beauty’.