When will the flood of serial killer dramas abate? No time soon. Already this month Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix “Monster” entry has come out — the critically trounced “The Ed Gein Story” — and wouldn’t you know there are more docuseries and dramas yet to come.

Some have worked, others are just lurid and exploitative. Peacock’s eight-part dramatization is one of the better ones, and covers the reign of terror of 1970s killer John Wayne Gacy, the infamous contractor and creepy clown lover from Iowa responsible for at least 33 murders.

It does something different by remembering Gacy’s young male victims and turning them into flesh-and-blood characters. And it goes even one step further by documenting the harrowing experiences of those left behind with gaping holes in their hearts. The mult

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