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! |
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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.” |
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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. |
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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. |
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