The Beauty, the comic series turned television show, has its premiere date, which is Wednesday, January 21, 2026 on both FX and Hulu. The first three episodes will launch starting at 9pm ET/PT. The following eight episodes will be released weekly each Wednesday at the same time with a pair of episodes airing back-to-back in the show’s final two weeks.

The Ryan Murphy television show is based on the comic by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley. It was originally released by Image Comics and a new volume is being released by Ignition Press who also released a new collection of the original volume.

In The Beauty, the world of high fashion turns dark when international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways. FBI Agents Cooper Madsen (Evan Peters) and Jordan Bennett (Rebecca Hall) are sent to Paris to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into visions of physical perfection, but with terrifying consequences. Their path leads them directly into the crosshairs of The Corporation (Ashton Kutcher), a shadowy tech billionaire who has secretly engineered a miracle drug dubbed ‘The Beauty,’ who will do anything to protect his trillion-dollar empire—including unleashing his lethal enforcer, The Assassin (Anthony Ramos). As the epidemic spreads, Jeremy (Jeremy Pope), a desperate outsider, is caught in the chaos, searching for purpose as the agents race across Paris, Venice, Rome, and New York to stop a threat that could alter the future of humanity. The Beauty is a global thriller that asks: what would you sacrifice for perfection?