The Cheap Tricks of Me Too Thrillers

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( close read [The Cheap Tricks of Me Too Thrillers]( Films like Blink Twice and Promising Young Woman are part of a new subgenre of pandering suspense films that refuse to engage with what follows abuse. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Amazon MGM Studios, Focus Features, United International Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures One night at a party, a woman meets a charismatic man. She’s smitten; he is too. Their attraction is exhilarating, but just as they get more deeply involved, our heroine realizes that her paramour is actually evil — an abuser, possibly a killer. Newly aware — and filled with righteous rage — she decides to escape, enacting retribution against the monstrous man on her way out. This is the plot of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice, which follows a struggling caterer, Frida (Naomi Ackie), who absconds with a toxic tech billionaire named Slater King (Channing Tatum) to his private island, where he repeatedly assaults her; in time, she gets her revenge. [read more]( 2024’s Comedians You Should and Will Know 1. [Youngmi Mayer Makes Comedy for Hot People With PTSD “In a way, my entire childhood was bombing in a room of people who did not want to laugh.”]( 2. [Courtney Pauroso Surrenders to the Unknown “I think I took myself pretty seriously and only later in life realized that I was a natural fool.”]( 3. [MANDAL Thinks Silly Trumps Clever Every Time “I be trying to have a good time, man. I can’t read!”]( 4. [Sorry, Folks, But Brennan Lee Mulligan Is Unroastable “Every facet of my personality is somehow both remarkable and commendable yet also deeply normal and relatable.”]( By Vulture Editors [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( 5. [Vic Michaelis Is Asking for One-Word Suggestions in the Club “The green M&M is looking at me in stunned silence.”]( 6. [Gavin Matts Hopes This Helps “In a random interview I did in 2021, I said that stand-up comedians should be forced to retire at 40. I take that back.”]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: [Ent It Cool?]( • The Perfect Couple: [Welcome to Summerland (Episode 1)](, [Families That NDA Together, Stay Together (Episode 2)]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Everyone Is Having Fun in The Perfect Couple Opening Credits, Damn It! Lest you forget this is a show about murder, it’s also a show in which the entire cast performs a choreographed dance at the start of each episode.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [Every Ben Stiller Movie Performance, Ranked Audiences have come to know and love many Stiller personas: jester, auteur, control freak, buff daddy.]( By Sean Malin [Familiar Touch Is an Infinitely Tender Movie About Dementia Kathleen Chalfant is astonishing as a woman who moves to a care facility after she is no longer able to live alone.]( By Alison Willmore [Fall Into Uzumaki’s Black-and-White Holes Adult Swim’s new supernatural (and maybe cursed??) anime is spinning up hell on earth.]( By Eric Vilas-Boas [Megalopolis Will Stop the World Familiarize yourself with Francis Ford Coppola’s utopia.]( By Alejandra Gularte [Lady Gaga’s Fiancé Told Her to Make Pop Music Again We have that Little Monster to thank for LG7, out in February.]( By Justin Curto [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 12-Across, Five Letters: Like a theater kid Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Morgan Lieberman, Buda Mendes), Kevin Mazur/WireImage [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name a football movie starring Chris Rock or The Rock? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Steven Ferdman, Stephane Cardinale/Corbis, Pascal Le Segretain) A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved