A close analysis of the Netflix comedy special Bo Burnham: Inside (2021). This video essay explores Inside’s ambivalent aesthetics of ‘authenticity’ and self-reflexivity via comparisons with the conventions of other Netflix specials, YouTube videos, metamodern autofiction, and the classic mockumentary David Holzman’s Diary (1967).
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