Latest articles by Aaron Bady
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Fire in Paradise is 40 minutes of terror
feature You might not want to watch this one. You might not be wrong.
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How aristocrats ate prestige TV
opinion It's making me feel nostalgic for the old era's difficult men
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How Ready or Not escaped The Hunt's fate
feature A movie where wealthy elites hunt poor people that wasn't canceled amid partisan outrage
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The problem with Succession's half-baked class politics
opinion The show might not hate super-rich people as much as you think it does
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The anti-nostalgic power of Derry Girls
feature The Netflix series is a refreshing counter to coming-of-age clichés
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Superheroes, they're just like us
feature Does Amazon's The Boys have anything freshly subversive to say about the comic-book genre?
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The future of Trumpism is more erudite — and just as frightening
opinion Is Josh Hawley putting a scholarly twist on Trump's xenophobia?
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Netflix's Taco Chronicles is deliciously predictable
feature It's a food documentary that hits all the familiar beats. And it sends an unavoidably political message in the process.
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Why Stranger Things' nostalgia isn't quite as magical in season 3
feature An immovable object being pulled by an irresistible force
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What's missing in Spider-Man: Far from Home
The Explainer The original Avengers movies tapped into the zeitgeist. The new Spider-Man only taps into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Roger Ailes and the liberal myth of the conservative genius
opinion What The Loudest Voice misses about the conservative machine
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How Big Little Lies subverts the murder mystery
feature Season 2 of the HBO series shows what comes after the case is 'solved'
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What The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a movie ostensibly about gentrification, leaves out about gentrification
opinion A beautiful movie, with a puzzlingly apolitical point of view
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The danger of knowing one thing about the Central Park Five
opinion How Ava DuVernay's When They See Us gets beyond guilty or innocent
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The Deadwood movie shows there's still a big difference between films and prestige TV
feature A two-hour film, no matter how well executed, was never going to match the storytelling of the show
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Is Chernobyl historically accurate about the things that matter?
feature The HBO mini-series is painstakingly accurate about certain historical details, but also takes a number of narrative liberties
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What Fleabag's 'hot priest' storyline gets so right about sex and love
feature A perfect show somehow got even better with its (surprisingly hopeful) second season
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Game of Thrones' last big reveal
feature A story built on what the audience doesn't see has one big question remaining
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