I just don’t believe in taking a purist absolutist stance and throwing art and people away for things like this. Now show him funding the “Proud” “Boys” or something like that, and then I might agree with criticizing him. In general I don’t agree with the modern equivalent of book burning though. I didn’t support it…

it’s always great to read takes from people who insist on proving that they don’t really get what’s going on

Something actually problematic. Otherwise this song is just him humblebragging about not actually being problematic.

Yeah, like...I did *not* expect the AVClub to sleep on this one.

Inside as a whole feels like Bo Burnham’s complete submersion into Metamodernism, oscillating willdly between earnestness and cyncism. His work always had elements of that, but ut always expressed itself as detachment or superposition, while inside feels it flings between the polar states of cynicism and earnestness…

Some authors here have definitely disappeared up their own asses and the tabloid feel of the place has been getting stronger and stronger (and god knows I’ve been ranting about it), but I don’t think it’s possible to write an analysis of Bo Burnham’s Inside without talking about the intersection between anything-goes…

It was...unfunny...but I also don’t think it’s a “comedy” special...I loved it though..I couldn’t look away...visuals were great, the 1 man choreography and lighting was fantastic and many of the songs had deep thoughtful, sometimes funny lyrics

Yikes. There are a couple of levels of irony you’re missing here.

An article about a guy having his own reckoning is the one that feels like the morality police to you...?

ughhhhh -_-

Seriously? That’s your review? “Inside” tore me apart like no other work of art has in the past... I dunno... decade maybe? Longer? I honestly can’t think of anything that’s effected me more on an emotional level, and your take away was “I’m glad Bo apologized for being an asshole.” So disappointing.

The author seems to think that the cross projected onto him is meant to be taken literally, as if it wasn’t satire meant to examine the melodramatic apologies that follow a celebrity being “canceled.” And this coming from a blog that started as a supplement to The Onion...

That said, I’m glad this post exists so I can…

I’ve been anxiously awaiting an AV Club review of Inside, and this is all that’s posted about it? A superficial take on a single, relatively minor song, that doesn’t seem to fully understand the broader themes of the special or this song’s place within it?

I think I’m done too. Tried to make a clean break before, after the Kinjapocalypse and writer exodus, but the site still filled a niche in my life. Lately though, I just feel like I’m getting lectured by a bunch of snotty kids whose claim on the moral high ground is tenuous at best and outright disingenuous and…

Just watched it this morning. Buried in the “White Woman’s Instagram” bit is the most overt nod to the overall theme:

Apologies. I’m a gay man, and I exaggerate. Of course I’ve been excited about movies in the last 24 years. Although with regard to queer cinema, I’m usually pleasantly surprised after the fact because they tend to come out long before I hear of them.

That’s a well stated counterpoint. My comment was specifically about Artie and Cruella, and how Rife seemed to be expressing an opinion on behalf of gay men, rather than making it clear they were opinions from another perspective.

Mate, I raise a fucking glass of vodka to you and salute you! And I agree - can we get a gay male perspective on this character? Jesus Fucking Christ, but this site is stuffed to the gills with Interchangeable Emma’s with Turquoise Hair and sweet nothing else to contribute.

I get your point, but in The Mitchells, she’s got the lesbian flag, pride flag, and lesbian cultural symbols all over her stuff. She also has a promposal to a girl in her film reel.

Why don’t we just admit that this is China’s doing? Movie studios put in simple, isolated scenes that China’s censor’s can remove. Even The Mitchells vs. the Machines left the explicit reveal of the main character’s sexuality to a throwaway line in a post-credit scene that could be easily edited. It isn’t a single…