THE FUSE

Beauty is pain — that’s a saying that has echoed across generations while being lobbed at women and femme-presenting people. Now in his latest FX series, “The Beauty,” Ryan Murphy and co-creator Matt Hodgson are addressing the real price of aesthetics. Adapted to television from Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley’s comic of the same name, the horror thriller grapples with the cost of perfection and how unbridled greed and power contribute to the instability of our present-day society. “The Beauty” is a frenzied ride that will undoubtedly endear audiences at times and have them begging to get off at others.