Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland, and an editor at The New Inquiry.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Game of Thrones, "Stormborn"
Tarly Tarly Bo-Barly Banana-Fana Fo-Farly Fee-Fy-Mo-Marly TARLY!...
Game of Thrones, "Dragonstone"
Soup, Poop, and Climate Change...
The Handmaid's Tale, "Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum"
Dear TV on Handmaid's Tale, Episode 4......
The Santa Clarita Diet, Season 1
Everything is about Trump now, whether it wants to be or not. There’s no fact more central to our consciousness, no event more pressing: if the president of the United States is a fascist, then nothing, here, can remain untouched by that reality....
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Estate and Main [Spoilers ahead, look out!] Dear Television, In 2007, when Amy Sherman-Palladino didn’t get to finish Gilmore Girls, ...
Westworld, Season 1
Aaron Bady discusses how HBO's new "Westworld" adaptation clarifies the changing demands of the modern TV audience...
Stranger Things, Season One
It Doesn't Matter Dear Television, The conversation around Stranger Things has been all about the show’s “influences”: the first thing ...
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Winds of Winter"
Winter is here!...
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Battles of the Bastards"
Evil Father’s Day: or, We’re Not Going to Do That, at Least Maybe Not...
Game of Thrones, Season 6: "No One"
Let's not go to Riverrun, it's a silly place....
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Broken Man"
You Know I’ll Never Hurt You, Right: Or, Chopping Wood in Westeros...
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Blood of My Blood"
Imma Let You Finish But Don’t Drink That, She’s Trying to Kill You...
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "The Door"
“We can go home now, Hodor”...
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Book of the Stranger"
"I'm With Her"...
“Daredevil” and the Problem of the Not Bad
On the "ferociously bad" second season of Netflix's "Daredevil"...
Game of Thrones: Season 6, "Home"
Jon Can’t Go On, He’ll Go On...
Louis C.K.'s "Horace and Pete," Episode 1
Dear Television on Louis CK's "Horace and Pete"...
Art during Austerity: On "Mozart in the Jungle"
Dear Television reviews Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle"...
Bolaño’s Teeth: Valeria Luiselli and the Renaissance of Mexican Literature
"The Story of My Teeth" is a story of how art becomes a commodity, and a record of its own coming into being....
The Good Wife, Season 7
The ghosts of beloved characters haunt this season ...
The Last Child Soldier: “Beasts of No Nation” and the Child-Soldier Narrative
The African child-soldier narrative has a second life now in movies like Cary Joji Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation."...
The Two Ngugis: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s “In the House of the Interpreter”
LATELY WE SEEM to be experiencing a boom in the genre of the African literary memoir. In the past five years, ...
