Ryan Murphy is busy. Over a ten-day stretch in 2024, for instance, he launched 4 new exhibits: American Sports activities Story: Aaron Hernandez, Grotesquerie, Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Storyand Physician Odyssey. In 2025, he was additionally concerned in Mid-Century Fashionable, All’s Honestand 9-1-1: Nashville.
He’ll have a giant 2026, too. Set to drop quickly is The Magnificencea brand new FX sequence that, in his phrases, takes on “Ozempic tradition.” The present is predicated on a comic book e-book sequence by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley.
Forward of the present’s launch, maintain studying for the whole lot you could know earlier than it involves TV.
Plot
An official description reads:
“In FX’s The Magnificencethe world of excessive vogue turns darkish when worldwide supermodels start dying in ugly and mysterious methods. FBI Brokers Cooper Madsen and Jordan Bennett are despatched to Paris to uncover the reality. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms extraordinary folks into visions of bodily perfection, however with terrifying penalties. Their path leads them instantly into the crosshairs of The Company, a shadowy tech billionaire who has secretly engineered a miracle drug dubbed The Magnificence, who will do something to guard his trillion-dollar empire — together with unleashing his deadly enforcer, The Murderer. Because the epidemic spreads, Jeremy, a determined outsider, is caught within the chaos, looking for function because the brokers race throughout Paris, Venice, Rome, and New York to cease a menace that would alter the way forward for humanity.”
A synopsis of the unique comedian e-book additionally says, “Fashionable society is obsessive about outward magnificence. What if there was a method to assure you can turn into an increasing number of stunning each day? What if it was a sexually transmitted illness? On the earth of The Magnificence, bodily perfection is attainable. The overwhelming majority of the inhabitants has taken benefit of it, however Detectives Foster and Vaughn will quickly uncover it comes at a horrible value.”
Murphy beforehand spoke to Selection in regards to the present, saying:
“It’s one thing I’ve by no means carried out earlier than, which is a sci-fi medical present a couple of new virus that mutates and it’s sexually transmitted, that turns you into your absolute good self. And the query is, how far would you go to be stunning? What would you sacrifice to that, and does that matter? That present was taking a look at, I name it the Ozempic tradition. One little shot, and abruptly you’re going to look higher and really feel higher, and all of your issues are going to go away. However what are you actually engaged on? What’s occurring with you that you just really feel you could do this? Generally it’s well being, typically it’s self-importance.”
Solid
The present stars Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Rebecca Corridor, and Ashton Kutcher.
Murphy advised Selection that he had lengthy needed to work with Ramos and Kutcher. He additionally stated to Leisure Weekly he was “going all around the world” in 2025 to make the present, calling it “a really lengthy shoot.”
Murphy added:
“I’ve at all times written about magnificence tradition in my work from my very first massive factor, which was Nip/Tuck. I’ve additionally carried out quite a lot of physique horror in my work, principally by means of American Horror Story. I simply suppose that it asks that deep important query that I at all times wish to ask about something: What would you do for love? What would you do for magnificence? What would you do for cash? It has all of these issues that I’ve grappled with in my total profession, multi functional bundle.”
Launch Date
The present is about to premiere on FX and Hulu on January 21.
Trailer
Watch the The Magnificence trailer beneath.