Monster: The Ed Gein Story clumsily grasps for higher meaning / Jeff Probst on Survivor medical emergency / Byron Allen is lobbying to take over Stephen Colbert’s CBS timeslot

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Monster: The Ed Gein Story is lurid exploitation that clumsily grasps for higher meaning
In Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s new Monster season, “plenty on the show is flat-out made-up, lies that are the…