BO BURNHAM: INSIDE.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine

It's technically a Netflix comedy special. But Inside is far more unsettling than any true crime show. Bo Burnham's latest foray into millennial musical comedy chronicles his crack-up over the course of a COVID year alone via punishingly catchy earworms.

There's one part where a puppet made of a sweatsock delivers an indictment of neo-liberalism, only to be cowed by a genuinely unsettling threat of violence. There's a moving passage about death in a song devoted mostly to mocking the consumerist cliches of white women's Instagrams...