"Is ‘The Beauty’ Season Finale a Glamorous Fiasco or a Stellar Setup for Season 2? Find Out!"
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So, have you ever had one of those days where you feel like the universe is playin’ a cosmic joke on you? Well, if you’re a fan of The Beauty, you might just find that the finale is as full of twists as a Mercury retrograde. With a critic’s rating of 4 out of 5 stars, the last two episodes reveal that this series wasn’t meant to be tied up in a neat little bow. Ryan Murphy, our maestro of dramatic tension, drops a cliffhanger that’ll have you chomping at the bit for more.
Imagine characters wrestling with guilt and regret, turning everything you thought you knew about them on its head. It’s like reading your horoscope and realizing it’s eerily spot on—when it hits, oh boy, does it hit! The narrative dance between choice and consequence is a whirlwind, just like the celestial alignments shifting above us. As we wrap our heads around these developments, one has to wonder: how many more surprises are in store for our favorite flawed heroes and villains? What choices will they make next under the watchful gaze of the stars?
With that said, let’s dive in and unpack the unexpected layers, shall we? LEARN MORE
The final two episodes of The Beauty make it clear that this series was never intended to be a limited series.
Ryan Murphy has more in mind, delivering a powerful cliffhanger that will certainly make you beg for more.
We even have a character filled with remorse for everything he’s done, which certainly makes you second-guess everything you thought you knew about him.
Throughout The Beauty, there has been one constant: Franny Forst. She has always made it clear that she doesn’t want this miracle cure.
There are too many unknowns, and this is permanent. However, it’s only during The Beauty Season 1 Finale that she fully explains why she doesn’t want it.
Sadly, she’s not given a choice.
Her sons trick her into a dance, and they eventually inject her.
They think they’re doing well for their father by bringing the family together, but they have no idea what this means to Franny.
Byron does.
There’s a reason he never forced the drug onto her. If she didn’t want to take it, then he would accept that.
At first, he believes she chose to take it after all, but you can see the realization in his eyes as she talks about why she wanted to remain in the body that wasn’t considered beautiful.
She earned the stretch marks and the scars, giving us a healthy look at what it means to be a woman — and to be human.
It takes a long time for women to accept the body that they are in, and some don’t manage it.
However, those marks, the blemishes, the “unsightly” patches all become part of who we are, and they tell a story. That’s what Franny wanted to show off.
I had the utmost respect for her throughout The Beauty because she had stopped chasing this dream of perfection.
With the final episode, that respect grows even more.
Old items are wanted and cherished because of their age. So, why aren’t people? Why aren’t women?
My heart broke for Franny as she smashed the piece of art that she liked the most.
It came from a flea market, but was her most treasured item because of the memories that it held.
This is just another layer of Franny’s love for aging. There are memories that she cherished from her own body, and now they’re gone.
If they’re gone, then what is the point in having the other items that help her hold onto memories?
After all, it’s not like she’s planning on sticking around, as she can’t live in the form that has been forced upon her.
Suddenly, my perception of Byron changes.
This is a man who is after eternal youth and beauty, but he’s also after money.
He’s pushing a drug that he doesn’t know the full consequences of, and he races out with the pharmaceutical commercial, knowing that time is limited.
Yet, he wants people to have a choice.
That’s important to him, and I respect that about his character.
Again, it goes back to Franny, whom he wanted to have the cure but didn’t want to force it on her.
It had to be her choice, because at the end of the day, if we don’t have choices over our own bodies, what do we have?
While we find out that Franny may survive, Byron is a changed man because of it. He’s lost the true love of his life, and he despises his sons because of what they did.
So, when the side effects of the drug come out, and they are exponentially worse than anything they’d ever seen in the trials, he knows that this isn’t what people signed up for.
Some people won’t even have had the choice, as it doesn’t seem like the warning “no bodily fluids” is given to anyone.
He can’t see his miracle cure become a nightmare, and so, he shifts.
The fact that it is so fast without any hesitation at all is admirable. Now, if only all the board members could get on board with this.
Although I do have a question about the boosters — well, a couple of questions.
When were they created, and do they only work for those who received the pure shot?
I feel like the final two episodes of The Beauty are the only time we’ve learned about them, and if they were around for a while, The Assassin could have mentioned them to Jeremy and Jordan.
Of course, Diana — White Mother from The Beauty Season 1 Episode 9 — is reveling in the fact that this miracle cure is no longer the perfect drug that Byron once thought he had.
I’ll be honest in saying that I was surprised to find out that she wasn’t really going to be on Byron’s side in this.
Now, I get it. She’s hurt from being pushed aside in the first place, but she has power here.
Rather than working with Byron — and likely taking over the company that way — she’s chosen the worst of the two evils: his son, Tig.
Tig is everything that I expected Byron to be as word got out about all the complications, proving that the first villain isn’t necessarily the worst evil.
He has no empathy for anybody. People signed waivers, so he doesn’t think that they can sue.
He doesn’t want the company to focus on paying out, but is that because he’s already found the potential cure?
Something I don’t get with this episode is the timeline of events of the week after the ad drops.
Tig and Diana call in the betrayed team for a secret meeting, where Diana shares that there is a potential cure, a way to reverse everything The Beauty has done.
Did this come up before or after the board meeting? Did Tig already know about it, and that was why he didn’t want his dad to settle and take the drug off the market?
After all, if there is a cure, there’s no need to take the drug off the market, right? Everyone can get what they want.
That is, if the cure works, and that’s something neither of them knows.
But the fact that they didn’t want The Beauty taken from the shelves suggests that they knew a potential cure existed. Now they get double the revenue.
A young Cooper suddenly being willing to take the first dose of the cure seems a little idiotic for my liking, but he’s desperate.
He hates being a child for many reasons, and who knows if he’ll even grow up!
So, part of me gets it, but no matter how desperate I was, I would want to see some sort of test done beforehand.
This miracle cure has already proven to have dangerous side effects.
While the show spends some time sharing those side effects with us, we get to see one of them. Because Bella is so desperate to look beautiful, she agrees to sleep with a guy to get the alternate version.
Now, I do have to wonder if the severity of the disfigurement came from this guy taking the booster before he was supposed to, or if there was something in her DNA that caused it.
None of that is explained, and much of it is because nobody knows. It all goes back to this drug not being tested properly.
Like Franny, I felt for Bella. Sure, she made the choice, but she made that choice with a teenage brain.
There needs to be a minimum age for something like this, and her parents tried to warn her about the side effects.
Were they hypocrites, given the Ozempic mentioned? Partially, but not when you look at the full reason they didn’t want their daughter to have The Beauty.
Ozempic and other GLP-1s aren’t permanent. The Beauty is, and if something goes wrong, there is no coming back from that.
As parents, they did exactly what they needed to do to protect their daughter, and as parents, they get to be a little hypocritical when it comes to protecting their child.
So, with all the risks that have already been noted, I go back to my questions about Cooper and choosing to accept the cure.
He chooses to accept the risks without even a second thought, breaking the character that he knew him to be.
He didn’t even want The Beauty in the first place, happy with who he was.
Taking The Beauty was a sacrifice in his eyes, but is running the risk with a cure? I don’t see the sacrifice in that!
Annoyingly, this is where The Beauty Season 1 ends.
We don’t get to see if Cooper will become an adult again, and we have no idea if this cure could help people like Bella.
Instead, we’re left with a lot of questions, characters hating on the wrong person, and hope that the cure will work.
The Beauty Season 2 hasn’t even been confirmed yet, making the decision to end with a major cliffhanger a huge risk.
Sure, FX and Ryan Murphy seem to have a special relationship, and I have a feeling the series will be renewed, but the uncertainty has me nervous.
As much as the first season slumped in the middle, it was worth it to persevere through those episodes, because the ending was outstanding. Now I need more.
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