Nearly six full hours into Peacock’s Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy , we finally see the eponymous serial killer applying make-up and donning the clown costume that, for many viewers, is inextricably linked to Gacy’s murderous reign.

The moment is striking and also, if I’m being completely honest, corny. It’s a wild reversal from the relative subtlety of the first three-quarters of the limited series, the sort of iconographic emergence one might expect in a Superman (the first time Clark Kent removes his glasses and takes flight) or a Batman (Bruce Wayne covering his head in a black cowl).

Nearly six full hours into Peacock’s Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy , we finally see the eponymous serial killer applying make-up and donning the clown costume that, for many viewer

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