Critica sin filtro

I watched Plastic Beauty, a 2026 Japanese series with eight episodes.

It’s a medical melodrama that pits a high-profile plastic surgeon against a purist doctor who despises cosmetic surgery, absurdly working under the same roof.

What promises to be a contemporary debate about beauty standards and social pressure in Japan ends up becoming a medical soap opera with all the subtlety of a cheap melodrama.

The moralizing is painfully obvious. The series reduces a complex issue to two sides: those who defend natural beauty and the superficial people who profit from changing it, instead of allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions.

For most of the series, Fumi and Rin fight over the same thing: one accepts surgeries that the other considers unethical. Lots of conflict, very little depth.

And how do they resolve this conflict? Fumi has an accident, her face is disfigured, and she ends up asking Rin—the very person she has been fighting against—to reconstruct it. The doctor who spent the series questioning cosmetic surgery ultimately depends on it to recover her face and her professional life.

Then Rin closes her clinic, Fumi opens one of her own, Rin buys it for 200 million, and the two former enemies end up as business partners and best friends.

What a ridiculous mess. Eight episodes just to resolve everything like a Japanese version of La Rosa de Guadalupe.

What an absolute mess. Zero out of five stars. Absolutely not recommended.