Imagine going back in time five years ago and telling someone "By 2018, one-half of Key & Peele, the lead vocalist of The Coup and Bo Burnham will all have directed acclaimed indie movies." It would sound beyond nuts, but then again, so are the majority of things in 2018 America, at least this is a more pleasant variety of nuts. Yes, Bo Burnham has made a smooth transition from music-heavy stand-up comedy over into directing motion pictures with
Eighth Grade, which is the rare motion picture to dare to center a story around those legendarily bad years in one's life when you're trapped in the tail end of your Middle School career.
