When Sacha Baron Cohen first introduced the world to Borat Sagdiyev in 2006, he changed the landscape of comedy forever. He proved that you could hold a mirror up to society by shattering the rules of decorum. Fourteen years later, in the midst of a global pandemic and a tumultuous election cycle, Baron Cohen returned to the character that made him infamous. Officially titled Borat Subsequent Moviefilm , but known colloquially and searched for globally as , the sequel arrived not just as a comedy, but as a time capsule of one of the strangest years in modern American history.