The Lockdown Historic House Museum: The Subversion of the Domestic Ideal during the COVID-19 Pandemic through Bo Burnham’s Inside

American comedian Bo Burnham’s musical comedy special Inside (2021) can be regarded as a theatrical yet accurate representation of daily life during the lockdown that was imposed due to the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to analyse the manner in which the subversion of the domestic ideal during the pandemic era is depicted in Inside, which is characterised by an enforced domesticity with negative connotations and consequences, as well as by abnormally blurry boundaries between the inside and the outside as a result of the almighty nature of the Internet.