Bo Burnham's 'Inside' Is A Musical Fantasy About Terrible Realities

Bo Burnham made his new Netflix special, Inside, for an audience, of course. It wouldn't be on Netflix otherwise. But as he suggests, he perhaps made it for another reason, too: This was the only way he could think of to survive more than a year of isolation.

Burnham has done a lot of stand-up, but he's also spoken about the way it used to give him panic attacks. For the last several years, he's become more prominent for other things. His first feature as a writer and director, , came out of nowhere for people who only knew him from stand-up, earning a haul of awardswas skilled and surprising. He's set to play Larry Bird in an . (That he's 6'5" is something I never noticed until .)