Bailey Herdé

Freelance Writer

United States

Bailey Herdé is a culture writer from Virginia. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and a life-long student of all things pop culture. The time she does not spend writing or watching movies and TV is generally spent, against her better judgement, on Twitter. She is available to write about film, TV, and various other pop cultural happenings.

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The Cut
04/26/2021
Chadwick Boseman Deserved Better

It's safe to say that when the Oscars began its broadcast last night, there were a few wins we were all expecting, either because those nominees had won all of their previous nominations in that category (like Youn Yuh-jung for Best Supporting Actress or Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor) or because some victories just felt inevitable (like Soul, which, despite the issues many have had with its plot, has always been heavily favored over its fellow nominees).

Bright Wall/Dark Room
03/08/2021
Should We Be Picking Out China Patterns or What? | The X-Files | BW/DR

It's the idea that belief and science are incompatible-that Mulder and Scully are intrinsically at odds-that opens The X-Files. But what drives it, what makes it work for now and forever, is the realization that, in the end, it's all the same hail-mary prayer.

Flip Screen
02/28/2021
REVIEW: 'One Night in Miami' (2020) is a Triumph of Black Humanity

"A feat of storytelling, a rare film about historical greats that doesn't care what made them great, but rather about what made them men." 57 years ago, on a warm February night, four men came together to celebrate a not-yet converted Cassius Clay's unexpected victory over heavyweight champion, Sonny Liston.

Film Cred
01/06/2021
Review: 'Sylvie's Love' - Film Cred

So many films with Black protagonists center themselves on either on Black suffering or Black excellence, and sometimes on both. Often, these films are biopics or otherwise based on true events, as if studios believe that audiences cannot wrap their minds around the fullness of a Black person's life unless it is well-documented or celebrated.

Flip Screen
12/19/2020
The Timelessness of Space and Intimacy in 'Pride & Prejudice' (2005)

2020 has been an extremely long and incredibly weird year, one defined by absence: of precedence, of bureaucratic competence, of any semblance of sanity or normalcy. It has also been-mind-numbingly, infuriatingly-a year defined by excess: of death, of time, of news, and, most notably, of distance.

Growupteenscreen
10/22/2020
"Where You Lead, I Will Follow": Gilmore Girls and the Cyclical Project of Growing Up - Grow Up

by Bailey Herdé | October 22, 2020 These days, I am ruled by my whims. It's something that would be easy to attribute to the pandemic and quarantine and the general limbo of life in 2020, but in truth, I've always been a bit impulsive; it's just that, in the absence of pretty much every other normal aspect of life, there's now a little more space for spontaneity.

Flip Screen
08/14/2020
Why, 25 Years Later, 'Clueless' (1995) Remains Our Smartest Jane Austen Adaptation

When Jane Austen began work on her 1815 novel, Emma, she predicted that her heroine would be one "whom no one but myself will much like." It's true that Emma Woodhouse, being "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition," moving through her provincial life "with very little to distress or...