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Were you to tell me that The Beauty, a new FX dark comedy, were Ryan Murphy’s last TV series — a chaotic and inconsistent summation of a chaotic and inconsistent body of work — I would believe you.

It isn’t. He’s got a dozen shows — probably more — at various stages in the pipeline.

But The Beauty is affectionately cumulative, a frequently gross, occasionally provocative blend of Nip/Tuck and various American Horror Story iterations.

Adapted by Murphy and longtime collaborator Matt Hodgson from the comic book by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, the show is not merely derivative of Murphy’s own oeuvre. It will remind viewers with short memories of The Substance, especially since The Beauty co-stars Ashton Kutcher, ex-husband of that movie’s star, Demi Moore. It will remind slightly older viewers of Death Becomes Her, a movie that co-starred Isabella Rossellini, a recurring guest star in The Beauty.

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