Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland and an editor at The New Inquiry.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: One Month of "The Queen's Gambit"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady remembers what it was like to watch the soothing counterfactuals of The Queen's Gambit all the way back in October 2020....
Dr. Manhattan is a Cop: "Watchmen" and Frantz Fanon
Aaron Bady, for Dear Television, considers the way that HBO's Watchmen came so close to unmasking the world's real supervillain....
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Iron Throne"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle consider the new occupant of the Iron Throne and what got them there and ask, "But why, though?"...
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Bells"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak consider the relative madness of the queen(s) on Game of Thrones....
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Last of the Starks"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle check in with the last of the Starks on the day after the long night in Westeros....
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "The Long Night"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady, Sarah Mesle, and Phil Maciak reluctantly celebrate all the characters who survived "The Long Night," they guess....
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle talk about all the listening and learning going on in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."...
Game of Thrones: Season 8, "Winterfell"
Dear Television's Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle dramatically reunite to discuss "Winterfell" and why it's a dumb idea for Game of Thrones to ever really end....
Who's the Baddie? Captain Marvel in the Age of American Empire
Who is Captain Marvel an allegory for?...
The Hellish Comedy of Now: Silicon Valley, Season Five
For DearTV, Jane Hu and Aaron Bady talk joke-butts, Orientalism, cryptocurrency, and the season finale of Silicon Valley....
Post-Shawarma: On Avengers: Infinity War
Aaron Bady wonders: can you imagine how exhausting it has been to build the Marvel Cinematic Universe?...
The Westworld Rickroll
Is Westworld back on its bullshit? Aaron Bady investigates for Dear Televisions......
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season One
Dear TV puts together a tight ten on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the specter of a Rory-less Gilmore Girls, and Woody Allen....
Star Trek: Discovery
Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle for Dear TV ravenously consume two new hours of Star Trek: Discovery. What's the verdict? The present sucks....
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "The Dragon and the Wolf"
Every city in the world is built on wildfire — Dear Television on the end of Game of Thrones, season seven....
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "Beyond the Wall"
JON SNOW: I would like to be excluded from this narrative. GAME OF THRONES: NOPE....
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "Eastwatch"
That bowl of fermented crab seems sort of unsteady; how do you keep it from spilling if you’re taking that little rowboat on the ocean? Invest in some good Tupperware, would be my advice....
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "The Spoils of War"
Dear Television ponders which chosen one is the most chosen, and whether there's something else dragons can do....
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "The Queen's Justice"
Dear Television discusses what happens when the Game of Thrones is only played by veterans and no rookies....
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "Stormborn"
Tarly Tarly Bo-Barly Banana-Fana Fo-Farly Fee-Fy-Mo-Marly TARLY!...
Game of Thrones: Season 7, "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, "Battle 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, ...
