Continuing apace, voters in November elected a political newcomer and relative moderate, Daniel Lurie, as mayor and punctuated the sentiment by gifting him a more simpatico Board of Supervisors at San Francisco’s baroque City Hall.

For Ryan Murphy, entertainment is a series of baroque monstrosities, human and otherwise, as seen in ‘Grotesquerie’ and his latest installment of ‘Monsters.’

God knows, having worked a whole career in government, I understood their critique of its baroque and sclerotic routines.

The show’s title is also the killer’s moniker, reflecting his fascination with Biblical allusions in his baroque murder scenes Lois suspects are designed to taunt her.

For Murphy, whose imprint often seems to be on every other work of television, entertainment is a series of baroque monstrosities, human and otherwise.