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Now we have, as a counterbalance to a lurid male gaze as the season’s new opera for L.A.

Set in the lurid environment of gaming mecca Macau, the movie is notable for assembling good elements, including ‘Conclave’ director Edward Berger, and squandering them.

But it is Murphy and Brennan’s employment of narrative license with Gein’s tale and the series’ lurid tight shots on upholstery made of human skin that declare the series’ intent more loudly.

Presented with Thomas Harris’ bestselling novel “The Silence of the Lambs,” most Hollywood directors would have been primarily enticed by the lurid appeal of its serial killers, Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter and “Buffalo Bill.”

It’s also lurid proof that Charles Darwin missed out on the truly juicy survival-of-the-fittest action by about a hundred years.