I didn’t know I was still experiencing such immense grief but there it was. “I wept openly during the latter half of that song.
In trying to better understand the zeitgeisty nerve it hit-combing fan forums, eavesdropping on loving discussions of it online-I’ve been struck by the number of viewers for whom the special captured some essential aspect of their experience of this past year, with a specificity and precision that made them feel seen, recognized, understood. Even I, a person outside Inside-the special mostly fell flat for me-was moved to sympathy by the desperately self-conscious agony of its protagonist. That’s one of many triumphs of his latest special, Inside, a work I’ve seen almost universally not just praised but loved. I am keenly aware as I write this that I do not want to hurt Bo Burnham’s feelings.
