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“Finding love is hard enough. Try doing it on the one night a year single people are legally allowed to have sex.” Like many of the chronically online, I’ve been thinking about this baffling voiceover—which can be heard in the first trailer for a romantic comedy starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro called One Night Only—for, oh, the past four months. And my thoughts barely quieted when I finally had a chance to see this highest of high-concept movies, which, yes, takes place in a dystopian society where premarital sex has been outlawed. It’s easy to suspend disbelief when you’re being thoroughly entertained—there’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play basketball! But it’s a lot tougher to calm your inner pedant when a film’s charms can’t outweigh its ludicrous premise. Luckily, I had an absolute blast picking apart One Night Only in an attempt to understand how its world works—and I hope you’ll enjoy reading my exegesis as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Elsewhere in VF, beloved auteur Gregg Araki makes the case for sex (and not just on one night a year!) in an interview with Marisa Meltzer, and Clara Molot untangles the curious case of AI hedge fund wunderkind Leopold Aschenbrenner. More tomorrow!

HILLARY BUSIS,
FEATURES EDITOR

An Honest Attempt to Understand One Night Only

BY HILLARY BUSIS

Why are single people only allowed to have sex once each year? How on earth is that rule enforced? Is third base permitted? Pull up a chair—and get ready for a deep dive.

Another Great Read

FILM

Gregg Araki Doesn’t Think You’re Having Enough Sex

BY MARISA MELTZER

The indie cinema icon’s first film in 12 years explores Gen Z vs. millennial desire and stars Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, and Charli xcx.

A Billion to One

How to Lose Billions (and Gain a Wife) in Two Days

BY CLARA MOLOT

Right before his wedding to Anthropic’s Avital Balwit, AI hedge fund wunderkind Leopold Aschenbrenner chose to protect Situational Awareness’s private investments in Anthropic at the expense of most of the company’s public portfolio.

Murder? It’s not just for men anymore. I’m being facetious, but that is sort of the thesis of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the next installment of Ryan Murphy’s grisly Netflix anthology. As series cocreator Ian Brennan tells Savannah Walsh for an exclusive first look that’s live on VF today, in Borden’s age, “They literally thought that a woman was too weak to pick up an axe…. To be a woman in that period was to be almost a completely different species. You were treated like you were incapable of not only actions, but the thoughts that a man was capable of.” Homicidal feminist pioneer Borden challenged that preconception. Here’s to breaking the glass ceiling, among other things!

Elsewhere, Savannah also catches up with Vanderpump Rules alum Stassi Schroeder, while Rosemary Counter considers a 133-year-old question: If Borden didn’t murder her father and stepmother, then who did? (Spoiler alert: Uh, Borden probably did it.) More tomorrow!

HILLARY BUSIS,
FEATURES EDITOR

Welcome to the Blood-Soaked Feminist Romance of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

BY SAVANNAH WALSH

In their first interviews about the season, costars Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, and Rebecca Hall share how their darkly comic spin on a Victorian-era murder has blown the Monster franchise—plus the odds of a Glee reboot—wide open: “It’s Ryan Murphy Does Cinderella.”

Culture Watch

TELEVISION

Stassi Schroeder Speaks on Her Comeback: “Are We Just All Narcissists?”

BY SAVANNAH WALSH

Schroeder left Vanderpump Rules in a cloud of disgrace. But with her new series, House of Stassi, she hopes to reinvent herself in the genre she knows best by breaking the fourth wall. The reality TV star opens up to VF.

From the Archive

If Lizzie Borden Didn’t Kill Her Wealthy Parents, Who Did?

BY ROSEMARY COUNTER

Nobody knows for sure, which is why the crime has haunted pop culture for over a century—but here, we’ll break down seven other potential suspects, according to Borden experts.