Inside (2021)

" There is an emerging genre of hyperactive art born of the minds of people who have been online since before they hit puberty—call them Dispatches from a Mediated Mind. These are works (whether in writing or performance) that explore what it means to live with a brain broken into shards by a steady stream of social media and open tabs and reality television. Peppered with Reddit slang and obscure pop-culture references, the pieces may not be comprehensible to those who are, say, over sixty, or who are generally well-adjusted enough to have healthy relationships with their phones. One of the leading auteurs of the mediated mind, the thirty-year-old comedian Bo Burnham, has a new Netflix special, “Inside,” that captures, with a frenzied and dextrous clarity, the unmoored, wired, euphoric, listless feeling of being very online during the pandemic. “Inside” is a virtuosic one-man musical extravaganza. " (Newyorker)