Netflix original Uglies is one of the streaming service’s top films right now – and it’s left some viewers pondering the same thing. The movie is set in a dystopian future in which everyone undergoes mandatory cosmetic surgery on their 16th birthday,

"Uglies," a film adaptation of the 2005 dystopian book of the same name, is among Netflix's worst-reviewed movies of the year.

At long last, fans of Uglies, Scott Westerfeld’s iconic 2005 YA dystopian novel, have received the long-awaited screen adaptation. Somehow, Westerfeld’s series—a teen-targeted social commentary on beauty standards and our collective obsession with them—was skipped over in the late-aughts-to-early-2010s era of making movies out of bestselling postapocalyptic YA novels that gave us franchises like The Hunger Games,