Written by Ryan Murphy And Matthew Hodgson
Directed by Michael Uppendahl
Meyer (to Cooper): "Do as you're told."
We're in the final two weeks of the show and it's tine to go into double bills. It feels like the show only just started but here we are. After last week's episode, there's more focus on Byron and a new player added into the mix.
The new player being Dr. Diana Sterling (Ari Graynor). It turned out that prior to The Beauty itself, Byron was very much interested in robotics being the future of preserving humanity. Robotics are now out of fashion and Diana's pretty miffed about being replaced as a direct result.
Keeping with Byron, he opened the episode by waxing lyrical about his upcoming Beautiful Day launch for the Beauty with another big ad campaign. Franny was once again not remotely interested in Byron's lofty ambitions.
There was also the arrival of their sons - Tig (Kevin Cahoon) and Gunther (Eric Peterson). Honestly, I can see why Byron didn't respect them. They're both idiots and clearly Franny had a massive blind spot towards their stupidity. Their idea for a bro themed streaming service sounded absolutely pointless as a pitch.
Saying that, they did serve a purpose when both of them ended up falling victim to another drug overdose and Byron had them transformed into Ray Nicholson and Brandon Gillard respectively. Franny swore revenge but maybe Byron did their idiot children a favour, even if it was a selfishly motivated.
As for Cooper and Jordan, it was funny to see that they ended up in a begrudging alliance with the Assassin and Jeremy. Byron screwed over the latter two and Meyer tried to get Cooper to do what he was told. Then we had some black ops swoop and the episode ended on an abrupt note.
- Byron was 5% Nigerian, which was used to explain why Gunther was now biracial. The costume choices for Tig and Gunther was something else.
- Diana admitted to sacrificing a family in order to continue her work with the Deacons. She's unsurprisingly cold in nature for someone into robotics.
- Jeremy was given a lot more information in between Cooper and Jordan trying to outsmart both him and the Assassin.
- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.
Beautiful Brothers did live up to its title on the shallow end of the scale. Will bring beautiful suddenly make Tig and Gunther smart? Byron better hope not or they'll usurp. The episode was good but too short and so was the next one.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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