Uglies

Netflix Original Series

The series takes place at least three hundred years in the future after the nature-killing Rusty civilization was destroyed. The survivors of the Rusty Crash agreed that the planet must never be wrecked again. Studying the "halo-effect" where attractive people seem to be treated better, are happier, and are more successful, they created a system where everyone at the age of sixteen is given the Pretty Operation, making them all super-beautiful. To make people unlikely to question the need for a completely different face and body, they conditioned everyone between the ages of twelve and sixteen to believe that they are "ugly". Tally Youngblood is an Ugly who wants nothing more than to become Pretty and join her best friend Peris in New Pretty Town. But when she meets Shay, a girl who doesn't want to become Pretty, Tally's life becomes complicated. Tally initially disregards her friend's assertion as something that a crazy Ugly would do, and that, of course, she'll turn Pretty. As Shay and Tally share a birthday, Tally is excited that they'll never be separated due to the operation. Shay tries to convince her new friend into running away with her to the mysterious Smoke, a community hidden in the wild, but Tally refuses. Shay leaves anyway but gives Tally a note handwritten (to Tally's surprise, as in this world people don't write by hand) with cryptic and often confusing directions on how to make it to the Smoke.

Story added by mr95 on August 22, 2024