Comedian, musican, writer, director, and 27-year-old Bo Burnham feels like an eighth grade girl. That's not me projecting, he's said so himself, and he wears his heart on his sleeve in his first feature film, Eighth Grade. His anxieties—which have caused him bouts of stage fright, crises of his identity and vocation, and literal panic attacks throughout his career—likely aren't too foreign to the average tween, or, frankly, anybody alive and aware of the world we live in. That seems to be why Burnham has chosen to tell a story about an eighth grade girl; because more of us can relate to her worries than we might realize. And he's on to something, because
Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade
Comedian, musican, writer, director, and 27-year-old Bo Burnham feels like an eighth grade girl. That's not me projecting, he's said so himself, and he wears his heart on his sleeve in his first feature film, Eighth Grade. His anxieties—which have caused him bouts of stage fright, crises of his identity and vocation, and literal panic attacks throughout his career—likely aren't too foreign to the average tween, or, frankly, anybody alive and aware of the world we live in. That seems to be why Burnham has chosen to tell a story about an eighth grade girl; because more of us can relate to her worries than we might realize. And he's on to something, because