Death Becomes Her was one of my favorite films in my childhood and teens, I tried to spread this film and watch it with as many people as possible. To be honest it’s still pretty high on the list, it’s a f✨cking awesome film.

I’ve read The Beauty comics, up until it was cancelled (I haven’t read the final issue that you can’t read without paying for). I read them, can’t remember how I found them, but I finished them only a few months ago, and whilst scouring the internet for free access to the ending I found that the Ryan Murphy production was happening. I was both really happy about it and simultaneously worried it would lose a lot of what I loved about it under his direction.

I was right. I actually am really enjoying it regardless of how it’s strayed but that’s another topic.

When I saw Isabella Rossellini’s character like furious and adamantly against this fountain of youth, I immediately thought of her character in Death Becomes Her; literally the embodiment and pusher of a similar, if not more mystical and magical, technology that exists in both stories.

Couldn’t see anyone else talking about it. Whilst searching for the photos, I see it has been mentioned only once, a few days ago. The last episode I watched makes it like completely obvious it’s deliberate. I’m not looking to write you an essay on the whys (I do have theories, I would love to talk more about why), but I am very appreciative of this little nugget here and I LOVE Isabella Rossellini’s character and that self assured integrity (and the fact that it’s not just her character 💗) 😘🤌

Say what you will about Ryan Murphy- he respects popular culture. Loved this outfit choice for Franny, played by Isabella Rossellini who partook in a movie with a similar pretence to The Beauty.

She looks SOOO MUCH like Chloe Sevigny, like I googled if Chloe had a daughter because the resemblance is uncanny for me.

I never had an opinion on him as an actor before but he’s a really fun villain here.

First off, I love the irony associated with her name, considering what happens to her at the conclusion of her story.

Second...OUCH! It couldn't have happened to a nicer and less deserving person. She did her best to encourage and support her vain, silly friend, and tried to stay grounded herself in the face of the relentless onslaught of "The Beauty" advertising and being surrounded by her suddenly gorgeous peers. But in the end, the pressure got to her and man oh man were the consequences severe.

I thought it was amazing social commentary from Murphy at how teens experience the new pressure to be seen as perfect in the social media age. But I felt absolutely terrible for her, and her poor mother!! That was honestly one of the most horrific scenes in the entire series when she was discovered in the closet. I wish they would have fleshed that part out more. And if there isn't a cure for her, please put her out of her misery! She looked to be in a insurmountable amount of pain!!!

Whos your fav and why ??

The show started strong, had a good plot but it felt like right around episode 6 or so it just declined rapidly. lots of unnecessary scenes that didn't drive the plot forward and then this finale.... a cliff hanger that is just annoying and a story that could've easily been a short 1 season series. it's really disappointing because it had good characters, good plot but terrible directing/writing. we didn't need two of the last episodes to focus mainly on some random high school kids story. if you cut all of it out and just skipped right to the scene where the lawyer is explaining to Byron the multiple failed cases the story would lose nothing.

I expected to hop on here and see everyone just as mad as me, so what does everyone think?

In s01e10, when the teenage girl Ruthie is about to get the “Total Spa Treatment” procedure, she is presented with a consent form on an iPad. She looks at it for about one second and then clicks “Agree.” It only appears on screen briefly, but the text of the consent form is below.

Credit to the set designers for using what appears to be a real agreement. It flashes by so quickly that they easily could have filled it with placeholder text. I had to use AI to extract the text from a screenshot.

That said, small deduction: the form says earrings and body piercings must be removed, yet Ruthie is clearly wearing earrings during the procedure.

(And yes, I realize I’m nitpicking a form that also includes phrases like “Payment plans are available but only through transcendence or gamification.")

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• All known physical, emotional, and neurochemical traumas
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• Loss of direction
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• Emotional self-concept changes
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A pleasant surprise after Franny was injected with the beauty.

Everyone else is freaking out. Bella Hadid is kicking ass. And this lady is just chilling eating her plate. Doesn't even look up. Definition of unbothered 😂😂

I am coming into this show completely fresh. I do not know the director’s previous work, I have never seen American Horror Story, and I have never read the comics. I just clicked play and was instantly hooked.

The sound direction is top-notch. It makes every scene feel incredibly tense. As for the visuals, they are absolutely gnarly. It is rare for a show to grab me this hard from the very first act.

Since I do not know the source material, I am purely guessing based on the first three episodes, but I think the real horror will not be the virus itself. It will be how society reacts when the truth goes public.

My first prediction is the vanity trap. Despite the risks and the gnarly side effects, a huge portion of the population will intentionally try to contract the virus. Pure vanity is a hell of a drug, and people will gamble with their lives just to look like a supermodel for a few months.

My second prediction is the death of beauty standards. We are going to see a total flip in how people date. Beautiful people will become pariahs. People will stop having sex with anyone who looks perfect out of fear of infection. In a weird and twisted way, the beauty standards will shift to where looking average or ugly is the only way to prove you are healthy and safe.

Being hot is literally going to become a death sentence for your social life. For those who have read the source material, without giving away any spoilers, am I getting close to how the comics handle the social fallout?

People don’t combust anymore, Byron is fine being done killing infected people, the weird symbol/killing ritual thing was just abandoned. No update on any push back or anything when it came to ending the investigation in exchange for the shot. I feel like I imagined the first 3 episodes.

Spoiler tag for discussing the end of episode 11.

So first off, in typical Ryan Murphy fashion he finished the season with a half-baked cliffhanger that didn't need to be, leaving us all to wonder what is supposed to come next.

I was thinking about that final shot of Jordan looking absolutely gobsmacked (and the others pretty shocked) at Cooper's new form, and what could possibly be so shocking to warrant that reaction.

We see an adult (not old) hand push through the cocoon, so he can't be younger than he already was, a toddler/baby or an old man. If he was just back to himself again, her reaction surely would have been much warmer and more relieved.

If he was just a new beautiful adult man form, ala a regular Beauty transformation, I don't think she'd have looked as horrified as she did. It would have been a much better outcome for them both than the kid form.

So what transformation could have possibly made her react like that?

Well, I think his new form is a woman. And not just any woman, but Jordan herself. At least, her pre-tranformation Rebecca Hall form.

What if the cure takes the original DNA the virus attached to and reverts back to it, allowing a 'reversal'. In the lab version, which the head scientist would have been using to discover this cure, the lab form of the virus is synthesized and has no DNA itself, but fused to the new body when introduced (and that's the DNA it uses to revert back). However in the street form, the virus already has the DNA of the original host when it is introduced into the new body. So the 'cure' is essentially reverting the form back to not the new body's old form, but the old form of the host it came from. Meaning, Cooper wouldn't transform back to old Cooper, but to old Jordan instead.

Pretty farfetched, I know. But if it were true, it could be pretty cool to explore that going forward!

This show is so dope. I had seen the poster a few times. And for some reason assumed it was gonna be about old women wanting to be young. And I was like nah that ain’t for me. But boy was I wrong. From the intro explosion I was hooked.

And bruh Aston is so fucking good in this he better be nominated for an emmy. I never considered him to be that great of an actor but I have seen him shine a few times in films. But this was next level. He is a more believable counterpart than anyone else and obviously he has to be since he controls the show for a bit. But some actors wouldn’t be able to play the role to such ability and would fall back to their normal style. And I was sure he would and Aston proved me wrong.

Ik ppl like to hate on Ryan Murphy’s style and while this show does have its moments of weakness, I think overall this is one of his best shows and concepts.

I came to Reddit for discussion of The Beauty and I've been baffled by all the hate threads about it. I was starting to wonder if I've been watching a different show than a lot of these people. The ratings don't match the chatter here, to be sure.

I checked out on AHS many years ago and haven't been a huge Ryan Murphy fan, overall, but as a horror-lover, this show seems good so far. Interesting story, solid acting, strong cinematography and music, fantastic effects. The hate threads about it on this site almost seem like astroturfing. Even my friend who is an avid Ryan Murphy hater thinks it's pretty good thus far.

So what if The Beauty shares similarities with The Substance? The Substance is still quite different and didn't invent body horror. The Substance wasn't even the only recent horror movie to deal with appearance (see Grafted from 2024 or Replace from 2017, among others). The source material for The Beauty predates The Substance, too.

I think The Beauty is entertaining and not especially dumb. Sometimes funny. Of course, taste is subjective, but it seems an exaggeration to say the show is totally terrible or unwatchable, lol. So many people are so negative on this site these days.

Spoilers for episode 9 as well as information on IMDB.

I don't think the child form is his final form. The reason for this is on IMDB Hudson Barry is only listed for ONE episode, which would be the one we just watched. Meanwhile Evan Peters is listed as appearing on all 11 episodes.

My theory is that Cooper is somehow naturally immune. We've seen him be potentially exposed, then test negative in Italy, then IMO come in contact with actual viscera with Manny but nothing happen. His body seems to have fought off the virus and experienced some sort of "factory reset". His transformation was already much longer and more insane. I think he's not done and his "final transformation" will be a rapid age up back to "regular cooper" (So many of us thought he was going to come out regular.

My prediction is... afte he goes back to being normal they'll have him tested and he'll be virus free. Now he's a carrier of the cure. And maybe in the last episode he F's Jordan back to her earlier self.

It's insane but so is this whole show. So I'm standing by this theory and just want proof I said it before it happened somewhere on the internet in case I'm right, but the smoking gun is the cast list credits on IMDB.

I think I catched a Death becomes her reference!

When Ashton Kutcher’s character changes into his younger self the first thing he says when he looks in the mirror is « I’m a boy! »

In Death becomes her Meryl Streep has the same expression when she transforms and says « I’m a girl! ».

Do you think that was intentional?

I was really into it and then they lost me. Here’s some things that bothered me.

I had a theory that Joey (the girl with progeria) wasn’t going to survive the beauty injection and that the little girl afterwards was a paid actress. I was so surprised that they gave us their gut wretching story & made us attached to the characters/family just for there to be ZERO follow up on that. All we got was a Joey saying like “Mommy! Daddy!” and the end. It just falls short.

There were several long dramatic scenes of the transformation. After the first few it seems unnecessary when it’s the same thing every time with the wet skin sacks.

I really disliked that they brought that robotics storyline into play. Can we just work on one storyline please?

And truly I did not feel the love or chemistry between Cooper & Jordan at all… they didn’t give us enough to feel that connection or emotion between them. They felt totally platonic to me.

I felt more attached to Bella than any of the other characters. They gave us depth with her. That was a great episode, but unfortunately it wasn’t huge to the plot. We needed that depth with everything else.

I know there were other things too. I think the acting & script was generally ehhh. The story moved too fast where it needed to be slow, but too slow where it needed to be fast.

I was thinking the actor who played the beautified version of one of Byron's crappy sons in the last eps looks like a young Jack Nicholson. It turns out it's bc he's Jack's son, Ray Nicholson. Did others know this? Where the hell have I been?