Peacock is diving deep into one in all America’s most chilling true-crime tales with Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy, which is premiering on Thursday, October 16, 2025. The sequence revisits the horrifying real-life crimes of John Wayne Gacy, one of the crucial notorious serial killers in American historical past.
Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy kidnapped and murdered 33 younger males, burying a lot of his victims within the crawl house beneath his suburban Chicago house. Satan in Disguise explores the crimes of Gacy by shifting the main target away from the killer and towards the victims and their households. All eight episodes of the sequence will probably be obtainable to stream solely on Peacock from October 16.
Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy: Launch date and the place to look at?
Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy will premiere solely on Peacock on October 16, 2025. The sequence will drop all eight episodes on the day of its premiere. To observe the sequence, viewers will want a subscription to the Peacock streaming platform. Subscription to Peacock begins at $7.99 per thirty days.
Official synopsis and plot for Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy explored
The official synopsis of the Peacock sequence reads as follows:
“Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy explores the heartbreaking tales of Gacy’s victims and the immense grief and trauma their households endured, whereas exposing the systemic failures, missed alternatives, and societal prejudices that allowed his crimes to go unnoticed for thus lengthy.”
In contrast to different serial killer documentaries, the sequence avoids exhibiting any of the murders onscreen. As a substitute, it makes use of flashbacks and emotional storytelling to humanize the story of the victims and discover the impact of Gacy’s crimes on the neighborhood.
Showrunner Patrick Macmanus has emphasised that the sequence avoids sensationalizing Gacy’s crimes, saying,
“We actually, actually had been attempting to deal with the victims — what their lives had been like and who they honestly had been, with no connective tissue to John Wayne Gacy at al. The final word purpose was to make sure that when folks left our present, they noticed greater than a reputation or a quantity.”
Macmanus additionally revealed that his group even reviewed unaired footage from Peacock’s 2021 docu-series John Wayne Gacy: Satan in Disguise and reached out to victims’ households earlier than dramatizing the story.
The Forged checklist explored
Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy is led by Michael Chernus, who takes on the function of John Wayne Gacy. Chernus admitted he was initially hesitant to simply accept the half, fearing that the undertaking may glorify the killer. What satisfied him to tackle the function was Macmanus’s assurance that Gacy was not going to be on the heart of this story.
The ensemble solid additionally contains:
- Gabriel Luna
- James Badge Dale
- Michael Angarano
- Chris Sullivan
- Marin Eire
Behind the scenes
Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy is produced by UCP, a division of Common Studio Group, in partnership with NBC Information Studios and Littleton Street Productions.
Government producers on the present embrace Patrick Macmanus, Noah Oppenheim, Sarah Bremner, Liz Cole, Ashley Michel Hoban, Ahmadu Garba, and Kelly Funke. The sequence has been directed by Macmanus, Larysa Kondracki, Ashley Michel Hoban, Maggie Kiley, and Bille Woodruff, and it has been filmed in Toronto, Canada.
Catch Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy on Peacock on October 16, 2025.
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Edited by Sneha Haldar
