Look I Understand What Youre Doing Brillant but Once Again I Am Trapped!!!
"Within" feels like the artistic culmination of Bo Burnham'southward career over the last 15 years, starting with his get-go viral YouTube video in 2006.
Burnham was just 16 years erstwhile when he wrote a parody song ("My Whole Family unit...") and filmed himself performing it in his bedroom. He uploaded it to YouTube, a then barely-known website that offered an easy way for people to share videos, and then he could transport information technology to his brother.
Burnham had no idea that his vocal would exist seen more than than ten million times, nor that it would kick start his career in a niche brand of cocky-aware musical comedy.
Fifteen years later, Burnham constitute himself sheltering in place during the COVID-nineteen pandemic and decided to sit down dorsum down at his piano and see if he could once again entertain the globe from the claustrophobic confines of a single room.
The event, a special titled "Within," shows all of Burnham's brilliant instincts of parody and meta-commentary on the role of white, male entertainers in the world and of poisons constitute in cyberspace culture — that digital space that gave him a career and fostered a damaging anxiety disorder that led him to quit performing live comedy subsequently 2015.
But now Burnham is dorsum. Instead of a live performance, he'due south recorded himself in isolation over the course of a yr.
So let'due south dive into "Inside" and have a closer look at well-nigh every song and sketch in Burnham'south special.
The opening shot of "Within" makes information technology clear that Burnham is threading the beginning of his new special with the very end of his 2022 special, "Make Happy."
"Within" kicks off with Burnham reentering the aforementioned small studio space he used for the end of "Make Happy," when the 2016 Netflix special transitioned from the alive stage to Burnham of a sudden sitting downward at his piano by himself to sing one last vocal for the at-home audition.
At the get-go of "Inside," Burnham is not only coming back to that same room, but he's wearing a very like outfit: jeans, T-shirt, and sneakers — picking upward right back where he left off.
Performing "Make Happy" was mentally taxing on Burnham. Years later, the comedian told NPR's Terry Gross that performing the special was so tough that he was having panic attacks on stage.
He decided to terminate doing live performances, and instead ready out to write and directly his first feature picture, the critically-acclaimed 2022 movie "Eighth Grade." He likewise costarred in the Oscar-winning flick "Promising Young Woman," filmed in 2019.
How "Make Happy" ended is vital to understanding the start of "Within."
During the final 15 minutes of "Make Happy," Burnham turns the comedy switch downwardly a fleck and begins talking to the audience about how his comedy is well-nigh always nigh performing itself considering he thinks people are, at all times, doing a "performance" for 1 another.
"They say it's like the 'me' generation. It's non. The airs is taught or it was cultivated. It'south self-conscious. That's what it is. It'southward conscious of cocky. Social media; it'due south just the market's answer to a generation that demanded to perform and then the market place said, here, perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time for no reason. It's prison. Its horrific."
Burnham so kicks back into song, still addressing his audience, who seem unsure of whether to laugh, applaud, or sit down somberly in their chairs.
"A office of me loves you, function of me hates you," he sang to the crowd. "Function of me needs you, part of me fears you. And I don't think that I tin handle this right now. Look at them, they're only staring at me, like 'Come and watch the skinny kid with a steadily failing mental health, and laugh as he attempts to requite you what he cannot give himself.'"
At the start of "Inside," Burnham says he's been "a little depressed" so he'southward going to try getting dorsum to work.
"Robert's been a little depressed, no!" he sings as he refers to his nascence name. "And so today I'thou gonna try simply getting up, sitting down, going back to work. Might not help but still it couldn't hurt. I'thou sitting down, writing jokes, singing light-headed songs, I'g sorry I was gone. Just look, I made you lot some content. Daddy made y'all your favorite, open wide."
Right after the vocal ends, the shot of Burnham's guest firm returns but this time it's filled with clutter.
The clean, tidy interior that first connected "Inside" with "Make Happy" is gone — in its place is a mess-riddled space.
The title card appears in white, then changes to ruby-red, signaling that a camera is recording.
Burnham makes it clear that "Inside" is a poioumenon — a type of artistic work that tells the story of its ain cosmos.
Poioumenon (from the Greek discussion for "product") is a term created by author Alastair Fowler and usually used to refer to a kind of metafiction.
"The poioumenon is calculated to offer opportunities to explore the boundaries of fiction and reality – the limits of narrative truth," Fowler wrote in his book "A History of English Literature."
TikTok creator @TheWoodMother made a video virtually how Burnham's "Inside" is its own poioumenon thanks to the meta scenes of Burnham setting upwards lights and cameras, not to mention the musical numbers like "Content" and "Comedy" that all aid to tell the story of Burnham making this new special.
Having this frame of reference may assist viewers meliorate understand the pattern of "Within." Burnham is an boggling actor, and "Within" often feels like nosotros're watching the intimate, existent interior life of an creative person. But past using this meta-narrative throughout the whole special, Burnham messes with our ability to know when we're seeing a genuine struggle with artistic expression versus a meticulously staged fictional breakdown.
His first full song in "Within" is a parody of his ain internal debate over whether or not he should be "joking at a time similar this" — complete with a whiteboard mapping how to tell if a joke is funny or non.
The flow conversation for "Is it funny?" begins with the question "Is it mean?" and concludes that if information technology's mean, information technology's non funny.
On the other two sides of that question ("no" and "non sure") the flowchart asks if it could exist "interpreted" every bit mean (if so, then it's "not funny") or if it "punches downward."
How does one know if the joke punches downward?
Burnham wrote out: "Does information technology target those who have been disenfranchised in a historical, political, social, economical and/or psychological context?"
If the respond is yes, so information technology's non funny.
This whiteboard comedy equation seems to hearken back to one of Burnham'due south songs from his very first Netflix special.
Not only is this whiteboard a play on the classic one-act rule that "tragedy plus time equals comedy," simply it's a callback to Burnham'south older work.
In his first Netflix special (2013's "what."), Burnham sang a parody vocal called "Distressing" about, well, all the sad stuff in the world. But by the end of the melody, his narrative changes into irreverence.
"Everything that in one case was sad is somehow funny now, the Holocaust and 9/eleven, that s---'s funny, 24-7, 'cause tragedy will be exclusively joked about, because my empathy iss aimless me out," he sang. "Goodbye sadness, hello jokes!"
Now, five years later, Burnham's new parody song is earthworks fifty-fifty deeper at the philosophical question of whether or not it's appropriate to be creating comedy during a horrifyingly raw period of tragedy like the COVID-19 pandemic and the social reckoning that followed George Floyd's murder.
After the "FaceTime with My Mom" song, Burnham shows another behind-the-scenes await at himself working. A flash image appears in the corner, showing himself roleplaying equally a Twitch streamer.
This plays nigh similar a glitch and goes unexplained until afterward in the special when a sketch plays out with Burnham as a Twitch streamer who is testing out a game called "Inside" (in which the actor has to take a Bo Burnham video game character do things similar weep, play the piano, and find a flashlight in order to complete their twenty-four hours).
By inserting that Twitch graphic symbol in this before scene, Burnham was seemingly giving a peek into his daily routine.
The song "White Woman's Instagram" is edited primarily into the foursquare format of an Instagram photo, but the attribute ratio opens up when the vocal touches on an example of genuine emotion.
Throughout the vocal and its accompanying visuals, Burnham is highlighting the "girlboss" aesthetic of many white women'south Instagram accounts. The tropes he says you may discover on a white adult female's Instagram page are peppered with cultural appropriation ("a dreamcatcher bought from Urban Outfitters") and ignorant political takes ("a random quote from 'Lord of the Rings' misattributed to Martin Luther Male monarch").
Only during the span of the song, he imagines a post from a woman dedicated to her dead female parent, and the aspect ratio on the video widens.
It's as if Burnham is showing how wholesale judgments almost the way people choose to use social media can gloss over earnest, genuine expressions of love and grief existence shared online.
He's also giving u.s.a. a visual representation of the way social media feeds tin jarringly swing between shallow photos and emotional posts about trauma and loss.
At the finish of the song, "Inside" cuts to a shot of Burnham watching his own video on a calculator in the dark. He's cocky-evaluating his own visual creation in the aforementioned fashion people will often go back to expect at their Instagram stories or posts to see how it looks after they've shared information technology.
Burnham's entire comedic ethos tin be summed up in the reaction-to-the-reaction-of-the-reaction video scrap.
Next in his special, Burnham performs a sketch song almost being an unpaid intern, and then says he's going to do a "reaction" video to the song in archetype YouTube format. But then the video keeps playing, and so he winds up reacting to his own reaction, then reacting even so again to that reaction.
At the 2d level of the reaction video, Burnham says: "I'm being a little pretentious. It's an instinct that I have where I need everything that I write to have some deeper meaning or something, but it's a stupid song and information technology doesn't actually mean anything, and it'due south pretty unlikable that I feel this desperate demand to be seen as intelligent."
And then he moves into a new layer of reaction, where he responds to that previous comment.
"I'm criticizing my initial reaction for being pretentious, which is honestly a defense mechanism," he says. "I'm and so worried that criticism will be levied against me that I levy it against myself earlier anyone else tin. And I think that, 'Oh if I'1000 cocky-aware about being a douchebag it'll somehow make me less of a douchebag.' But information technology doesn't. Self-awareness does not absolve anybody of anything."
Burnham'due south career equally a young, white, male comedian has often felt distinct from his peers because of the amount of public cocky-reflection and acknowledgment of his own privileges that he does on stage and off screen. (For case, the song "Straight, White, Male" from the "Brand Happy" special).
Every bit he shows in this new sketch, he'due south enlightened at a meta level that merely trying to get alee of the criticism that could be tossed his mode is itself a performance sometimes. He'southward freely albeit that self-sensation isn't enough while also clearly unable to motion away from that self-aware comedic space he so brilliantly holds.
During "Sexting," Burnham's projector shows a text from someone spiraling while trying to communicate about making sure both parties are enjoying the experience.
To save you lot the fourth dimension freeze-framing, here's the complete message:
"No force per unit area by the way at any point we can finish i just desire to brand sure ur comfortable all this and please dont feel obligated to send anything you dont want to just cuz i desire things doesnt mean i should get them and its sometimes confusing considering i recall you lot enjoy it when i beg and express how much i want you but i dont e'er want that to plough into you feeling pressured into doing something you don't desire or feeling like youre disappointing me this is just meant to be fun and if at any bespeak its not fun for you lot nosotros can finish and im sorry if me saying this is killing the mood i only like —"
Too, Burnham's air conditioner is set to precisely 69 degrees throughout this whole faux music video.
Side by side, Burnham does some introspection on the video that started his whole career: "My Whole Family."
"Trying to be funny and stuck in a room, at that place isn't much more to say about it," he starts in a new vocal after fumbling a first take. "I was a kid who was stuck in his room, at that place isn't much more to say about it. When you're a kid and you're stuck in your room, you'll do any old s--- to get out of it."
At first hearing, this is a simple prepare of lyrics about the way kids deal with struggles throughout adolescence, particularly things like feet and depression .
Burnham spent his teen years doing theater and songwriting, which led to his first viral video on YouTube — a song he now likely categorizes as "offensive."
Burnham has been open about the way his own standards for "appropriate" comedy have changed rapidly in the concluding 15 years.
When he appeared on NPR'southward radio show "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross in 2018, the host played a prune of "My Whole Family" and Burnham took his headphones off so he didn't have to relisten to the song.
The song, written in 2006, is most how his whole family thinks he'southward gay, and the various conversations they're having trying to figure it out.
"I was in a full body sweat, so I didn't hear almost of that," Burnham said after the clip played. "Truly, it's similar, for a xvi-twelvemonth-sometime kid in 2006, it'due south cracking. But the cultural standards of what is appropriate comedy and also the inner standards of my own mind have changed quickly since I was 16."
When asked about the inspiration for the song, similar if people he knew idea he was gay, Burnham said, "A lot of my shut friends were gay, and, you lot know, I wasn't certain I wasn't at that bespeak."
Gross asked Burnham if people "misinterpreted" the vocal and thought information technology was homophobic.
"I don't know that information technology's not," he said. "I don't defend my sixteen-year-sometime comedy at all ... I accept a lot of material from back then that I'm not proud of and I think is offensive and I remember is not helpful."
"I practice not recall my intention was homophobic, but what is the implicit comedy of that song if y'all chase information technology all the mode down? I don't think it'due south perfectly morally defendable."
That'south why a spooky, droning sound plays during the next shot of Burnham watching that first viral video on a projector before cutting to a vocal nigh holding him accountable.
"Problematic" is a roller coaster of self-awareness, masochism, and parody.
The whole video is filmed similar one big thirst trap as he sweats and works out. But the lyrics Burnham sings seem to imply that he wants to exist held answerable for thoughtless and offensive jokes of his past:
"Father please forgive me for I did non realize what I did, or that I'd live to regret it, times are irresolute and I'chiliad getting old, are you lot gonna agree me accountable?"
It's as if Burnham knows at that place are valid criticisms of him that oasis't really stuck in the public discourse effectually his work. Instead, thanks to his ultra-self-aware style, he seems to ever become alee of criticism by belongings himself accountable outset.
He puts himself on a cantankerous using his projector, and the whole video is him exercising, similar he's training for when he's inevitably "canceled."
The final shot is of him looking positively orgasmic, optics airtight, on the cross. Like he's parodying white people who think that by crucifying themselves first they're somehow freed from the consequences of their deportment. Burnham may too exist trying to parody the hollow, PR-scripted apologies that celebrities will trot out before they've maybe had the time to cocky-reflect and really understand what people are trying to hold them answerable for.
When Burnham knocks his photographic camera over, information technology seems like a truly adventitious moment. But in his past specials, Burnham has meticulously timed "accidents" as a way to mess with the audience.
Known every bit "Art is a Prevarication, Goose egg is Existent," there'southward a fleck Burnham did at the commencement of his 2013 special "what." that shows this verbal meta way. While talking to the audience during the opening section, Burnham takes a sip out of a water bottle.
"This show is called 'what.,' and I hope there are some surprises for you lot," he says as he goes to fix down the h2o bottle.
But Burnham doesn't put the bottle down correct, and information technology falls off the stool.
"Oh Jesus, sorry," Burnham says, hurrying over to pick it up. "That's a good start."
Right as Burnham is straightening upwardly, music begins blaring over the speakers and Burnham'south ain voice sings: "He meant to knock the water over, yeah yeah yeah, simply y'all all thought it was an accident. But he meant to knock the h2o over, yeah yeah yep, art is a lie — nothing is existent."
He then pulls the same joke again, letting the song play after the audience'due south applause so it seems like a mistake. But then the music tells the audition that "he meant to play the track again" and that "fine art's nonetheless a lie, zippo'due south still real."
So in "Inside," when we see Burnham recording himself doing lighting fix and then accidentally pull downwardly his photographic camera — was that a real blooper he decided to edit in? Or was it an elaborate callback to his earlier work, planted for fans seeking evidence that art is lie?
Side by side, Bo ruminates on turning xxx years old after working on the special for vi months. His past self appears for a split up second, mirroring the earlier bleep in the special.
Remember how Burnham'due south older, more-disguised cocky popped upwards at the beginning of "Inside" when nosotros were watching footage of him setting up the cameras and lighting?
Well at present the shots are reversed. An older Burnham sits at a stool in front of a clock, and he says into a microphone that he's been working on the special for vi months now. That's when the younger Burnham, the 1 from the commencement of his special-filming days, appears.
Information technology'due south a reminder, coming almost exactly halfway through the special, of the toll that this year is taking on Burnham.
He says his goal had been to consummate filming earlier his 30th birthday. Only, like then many other plans and hopes people had in the early months of the pandemic, that goal proved unattainable.
After a brief "intermission," we finally see the full version of the Twitch-streamer-Bo who glitched into the special earlier.
This sketch, like the "White Woman Instagram" song, shows one of Burnham'south writing techniques of bringing a common Internet culture into a fictionalized scrap. Yous tin can tell that he'south watched a ton of livestream gamers, and picked up on their intros, the mode the talk with people in the chat, the cadency of their commentary on the game, everything.
Burnham achieved a similar uncanny sense of realism in his picture "Eighth Grade," the protagonist of which is a 13-year-old girl with extreme social anxiety who makes self-help YouTube videos.
Burnham has said in interviews that his inspiration for the graphic symbol came from real YouTube videos he had watched, near with just a scattering of views, and saw the way young women expressed themselves online.
There'due south also another lilliputian joke broiled into this fleck, because the game is made past a visitor chosen SSRI interactive — the well-nigh common form of antidepressant drugs are called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, aka SSRIs.
When the game ends, the screen says "some other night approaches" and then information technology cuts to Burnham getting into bed. This kicks of a section of the special that seems entirely focused on a downward mental spiral.
While he's laying in bed, eyes about the close, the screen shows a wink of an open door. It'due south a hint at the promised time to come; the possibility of once once more being able to go outside and experience sunlight once again.
Merely earlier that can annals, Burnham's eyes have closed and the special transitions to the uncannily tricky song "S---," bopping nigh how he hasn't showered in nine days or done any laundry.
"That Funny Feeling" is a song well-nigh things that brand you experience similar yous're living in a warped simulation or have totally disassociated from reality, or maybe accept begun to accept that we're at the edge of the plummet of civilization.
In the song, Burnham specifically mentions looking up "derealization," a disorder that may "feel like you're living in a dream."
The Mayo Clinic defines depersonalization-derealization disorder every bit occurring "when you lot persistently or repeatedly have the feeling that you lot're observing yourself from exterior your torso or you accept a sense that things effectually you aren't real, or both. Feelings of depersonalization and derealization tin can be very disturbing and may feel like you're living in a dream."
Some of the things he mentions that give him "that funny feeling" include discount Etsy agitprop (aka communist-themed merchandise) and the Pepsi halftime testify.
When Burnham says "twenty,000 years of this, seven more to go," he'due south likely referring to the window of fourth dimension we have to take action confronting global warming before its effects are irreversible.
In the song "That Funny Feeling," Burnham mentions these two yr spans without further explanation, but it seems like he's referencing the "critical window for activity to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming irreversible."
"On September 17, the clock began counting downwardly from seven years, 103 days, 15 hours, xl minutes and seven seconds, displayed in red," the Smithsonian reported. "If greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate, then when the clock runs out, the average global temperature will be irreversibly on its fashion to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit to a higher place pre-industrial levels."
Thought mod humans take been around for much longer than xx,000 years, that's around how long ago people first migrated to North America. And so for our own little slice of the world, Burnham's two time spans seem to be referencing the start and stop of an era in our civilization.
"The tranquility comprehending of the catastrophe of information technology all," is some other of Burnham's lyrics in this song that seems to speak to the idea that civilisation is nearing collapse, and as well touches on suicidal ideation.
It as well seems noteworthy that this is one of the only sketches in "Inside" that fades to black. While the other songs take abrupt endings, or harsh transitions, "That Funny Feeling" simply fades quietly into darkness — perhaps the mode Burnham imagines the ending of information technology all will happen.
Burnham's aroused flare-up scene takes place in front of the same projected background equally his "One-act" song.
The picturesque view of sun-soaked clouds was featured in "Comedy," during the section of the vocal when Burnham stood upward and decided that the just thing he (or his character in the song) could practise was "heal the world with one-act."
Throughout "Within," there'south a huge variety of light and background set-ups used, and so it seems unlikely that this particular cloud-scape was merely randomly chosen twice.
When we see it once more towards the end of the special, it's from a new photographic camera angle. At present Burnham is showing united states the clutter of the room, where he'south virtually claustrophobically surrounded past equipment. He tries to talk into the microphone, giving his audience a 1-year update. We're a long way from the days when he filmed "Comedy" — and the dissimilarity shows how fruitless this method of healing has been.
Burnham can't get through his words in the update as he admits he'southward been working on the special much longer than he'd anticipated. He slaps his leg in frustration, and eventually gives a mirthless laugh earlier he starts slamming objects effectually him.
The special is striking an emotional climax as Burnham shows us both intense acrimony and and so immediately after, a deep and nighttime sadness.
The song "All Optics On Me" uses a vocal baloney on Burnham'due south vocalisation, perhaps signaling that what we're hearing is the manifestation of depression trying to convince us to sink into the comfort of inertia.
Burnham uses vocal tuning often throughout all of his specials. Only ordinarily at that place is one item voice that acts as a disembodied narrator character, some omniscient forcefulness that needles Burnham in the centre of his stand (like the voice in "Brand Happy" that interrupts Burnham's prepare to call him the f-slur).
The song key used in "All Eyes On Me" could be meant to represent depression, an outside force that is rather adept at disarming our minds to simply stay in bed, to not care, and to non try anymore. In the worst case, low tin convince a person to finish their life.
"All Eyes On Me" starts right later on Burnham'due south outburst of anger and sadness. The atomic number 82-in is Burnham thanking a nonexistent audience for beingness at that place with him for the final year. But we weren't. He was lone. And at present low has its grips in him.
The song's melody is oddly soothing, and the lyrics are a sly manifestation of the manner low convinces yous to stay in its abyss ("Information technology's most over, information technology'due south just begun. Don't overthink this, look in my eye don't be scared don't be shy come up on in the water's fine.")
An existential dread creeps in, but Burnham'southward low-vocalism tells us not to worry and sink into nihilism. The vocal is like having a religious experience with your own mental disorder.
"You say the bounding main's rising, like I requite a due south---, yous say the whole world'due south ending, dear it already did, you're not gonna tedious it, heaven knows y'all tried," he sings. "Got it? Expert. Now get inside."
During "All Eyes On Me," Burnham explains to his "audition" why he quit live comedy, and reveals that he had been ready to return correct before the pandemic hit.
He takes a break in the song to talk about how he was having panic attacks on stage while touring the "Make Happy" special, and and then he decided to stop doing live shows.
"I didn't perform for five years," he says. "And I spent that time trying to amend myself mentally. And you know what? I did! I got improve. I got so much meliorate, in fact, that in January of 2020, I idea 'yous know what I should start performing again. I've been hiding from the world and I need to reenter.' And then the funniest matter happened."
Past keeping that reveal until the end of the special, Burnham is dropping a hammer on the actual at-dwelling audience, letting us know why his mental health has hit an ATL, every bit he calls it ("all time low").
In the background of "All Eyes On Me," the camera'southward timestamp is frozen in place — as if the photographic camera isn't even recording anymore. Nosotros're all just in this night, liminal space together.
There's no more than time left to add to the photographic camera'due south clock. The battery is full, but no numbers are moving. It's just Burnham, his room, the depressive-sound of his song, and us watching as his distorted voice tries to convince u.s.a. to join him in that darkness.
Partway through the vocal, the battery icon switches to depression and starts blinking in warning — as if decease is imminent.
"All Eyes On Me" is likewise the first time Burnham uses an extended handheld shot in the whole special.
The structured movements of the terminal hour and half autumn abroad equally Burnham snaps at the audience: "Get upward. Become up. I'm talking to you, get the f--- up."
He grabs the camera and swings it effectually in a circle as the song enters another chorus, and a simulated audience thank you in the background. It feels like the catastrophe of a show, a climax, merely it'southward not.
Finally Burnham is shown "waking up," ending the section of the special spent in the darkest possible mental infinite.
The scene cuts to black and we see Burnham waking upwards in his small pull-out couch bed, bookending the section of the special that started when him going to sleep. He brushes his teeth, eats a bowl of cereal, and begins editing his videos.
It's a quiet, banal scene that many people coming out of a depressive episode might recognize. Finally doing basic care tasks for yourself like eating breakfast and starting work in the morning.
That quiet simplicity doesn't feel similar a relief, but it is. It'south progress. It's an emergence from the darkness. It'south total circle from the start of the special, when Burnham sang about how he's been depressed and decided to try just getting up, sitting down, and going back to piece of work.
At last, Burnham sings his "Bye," and manages to go outside — only to feel terrified and vulnerable in the spotlight.
Burnham brings back all the motifs from the earlier songs into his finale, revisiting all the stages of emotion he took u.s. through for the final 90 minutes.
Only and so, just as Burnham is vowing to always stay inside, and lamenting that he'll be "fully irrelevant and totally broken" in the future, the spotlight turns on him and he'southward completely naked.
A distorted voice is back once again, mocking Burnham as he sits exposed on his false stage: "Well, well, await who's inside once more. Went out to wait for a reason to hide again. Well, well, buddy you constitute information technology, at present come out with your hands upward we've got you surrounded."
It's a reprieve of the lyrics Burnham sang earlier in the special when he was reminiscing about existence a kid stuck in his room. It'southward a heartbreaking chiding coming from his ain distorted voice, every bit if he's shaming himself for sinking back into that mental state.
For all the ways Burnham had been desperate to get out the confines of his studio, at present that he's able to get back out into the world (and onto a real phase), he'south terrified.
He's showing usa how terrifying it can be to present something you've made to the world, or to hear laughter from an audience when what you were hoping for was a genuine connection.
But in the end, Burnham watches back what he's made, and smiles ever then slightly. Like he's ready to be exterior again. And maybe the residue of us are prepare, too.
Burnham watching the end of his special on a projector also brings the poioumenon total circle — the creative person has finished their work and is showing y'all the end of the process it took to create it.
He's the writer, managing director, editor, and star of this show. Is he content with its content? Relieved to be done? Still terrified of that spotlight? Only he knows.
You lot tin stream "Inside" on Netflix at present, and see our ranking of all xx original songs from the special hither.
Disclosure: Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, is a Netflix board member.
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