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Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (2025)

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Show title: Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy

IMDb score: 7,4 (6.393)

Episodes: 8

Playing time: 7 hour and 35 minutes

Developed by: Patrick Macmanus

Stars: Michael Chernus, Gabriel Luna and James Badge Dale

Origin: United States

Releasedate: Thursday 16 October 2025

First aired on: Peacock (Verenigde Staten)

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Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy plot

Between 1972 and 1978, thirty-three young men were abducted, murdered, and buried in a crawl space beneath their killer's house. And no one knew. For all those years. Why not? He was charming and funny. He had a good, typically American job. He was a community leader. He even volunteered to entertain sick children... dressed as a clown.

Episodes Season 1 (2025)

  1. 1. Ten Days

    16 October 2025 (59 minutes)

  2. 2. Johnny

    16 October 2025 (58 minutes)

  3. 3. Samuel and Randy

    16 October 2025 (57 minutes)

  4. 4. Billy

    16 October 2025 (1 hour)

  5. 5. Billy and Dale

    16 October 2025 (47 minutes)

  6. 6. Tim, John and Rob

    16 October 2025 (1 hour)

  7. 7. David

    16 October 2025 (56 minutes)

  8. 8. Jeffrey

    16 October 2025 (58 minutes)

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Actors and Actresses

John Wayne Gacy

Det. Rafael Tovar

Chief of Detectives Joe Kozenczak

Lead Prosecutor Bill Kunkle

Elizabeth Piest

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As a viewer you are more or less kept on a string with exaggerated drama side plots

That's something you find out after just two episodes: about Gacy himself, his psyche, his methods, how and why? Well, apparently that's not important at all.

TO CATCH A KILLER, the brilliant version with Brian Dennehy as Gacy is superior to this series especially because Dennehy managed to portray such a scary Gacy.

That film lasted 3 hours and managed to build up the tension in a strong way until Gacy's arrest, this series does the same but crammed into an hour without tension, too rushed and with an actor who is not convincing as Gacy.

When episode 2 begins, the stringing along begins. Instead of exploring Gacy and showing the events unfolding, we see the drama of the victims, who have nothing to do with Gacy himself. Of course, there's the obligatory conflict with the son who is gay but can't tell his parents. This has become such a cliché, irritating side plot for years, and as a viewer, you're not interested in this kind of drama. You want to know what drives Gacy, why he does it, or at least something about it, but the creators refuse to address the subject. This while the series is about Gacy and bears his name, but at the same time, it's not. That's actually misleading.

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