Not many people know, Bo actually is a genius. Got into Harvard. And yes, Harvard is a phenomenal educational experience so don’t want to hear from those wanting to make America even dumber.
Bo hung out at our house when he was growing up in Hamilton, MA and would dust off our out of tune piano and somehow made it sound great. He deserves an award just for that.
It really hits different when you know that he was living in a villa with his girlfriend and it was filmed in their garden house.
It just seems kind gross to pretend to be lonely and not rich when so many people actually had to deal with that.
Kinda strange that you try to pull a silly gotcha.
He had company. He intentionally excluded his girlfriend and didn't film in his mansion because he was performing loneliness. And I think that's in bad taste because millions of people were actually alone and lonely and confined to small rooms.
As someone who has roommates and still found the pandemic super lonely and isolating.. I found Inside to be relatable and touched on what we were all going through.
Kinda like criticizing Tom Hanks for having not really stormed the beaches of Normandy, ya know?
Let's not pretend a guy whose entire brand is authenticity pretending to show his personal experience in the pandemic is the same as an actor playing a role in a movie set half a century earlier.
That's not the same, not close to the same and we both now that's a bs comparism.
Ya I I went big because I think it's all just art lol He portrayed what many of us were feeling and it resonated with a wide audience. So either he can empathize and write well enough to really capture what we all were going through, or he was actually feeling a lot of the same being stuck indoors
What do you mean “his entire brand is authenticity”? I never thought to consider Inside as a documentary, it’s supposed to be a comedy special. Comedians often play fictionalized versions of themselves/their lives.
Ironically, every time I re-watch or re-listen, it gives me this bone deep sense of nostalgia for this very specific point in time where it *felt like* no matter our diffs, we all were working to care for one another & solve one big problem.
Something about that feels naively cruel in retrospect.
Oh for Christ's sake! It's too late to start it now! And now all those amazing, catchy songs will be in my head, I won't be able to sleep until I can just sit down and watch it AGAIN.
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It just seems kind gross to pretend to be lonely and not rich when so many people actually had to deal with that.
He had company. He intentionally excluded his girlfriend and didn't film in his mansion because he was performing loneliness. And I think that's in bad taste because millions of people were actually alone and lonely and confined to small rooms.
Kinda like criticizing Tom Hanks for having not really stormed the beaches of Normandy, ya know?
That's not the same, not close to the same and we both now that's a bs comparism.
Something about that feels naively cruel in retrospect.
Hits a bit harder now than even weird Covid time.