FREAKS
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Tod Browning’s 1932 movie is amazing – so strange, and singular, that it sticks with film students when I show it to them in classes even today. It’s about the so-called “freaks” at a circus sideshow, and the clear moral is that the “normal-looking” humans, for the most part, are the actual monsters. These “freaks,” by contrast, form a loving, loyal, and protective family. One of us! One of us!