{"id":3125,"date":"2020-07-08T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T03:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2020-07-08T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T03:21:08","slug":"james-acaster-repertoire-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/james-acaster-repertoire-on-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"James Acaster: Repertoire on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished watching James Acaster: Repertoire on Netflix and wow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a four-hour standup special. Or rather it&#8217;s four different one-hour episodes. \u00a0But those four episodes are tied together as if it was a single four-hour standup with breaks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also some of the tightest writing that I&#8217;ve seen in any book, movie, or short story I&#8217;ve experienced. At least three different stories weave their way in an arc that has more twists and turns than a French braid, and has no loose ends.<\/p>\n<p>If you like standup, or if you like storytelling, this is worth your time.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9_0_kJzIa0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished watching James Acaster: Repertoire on Netflix and wow. It&#8217;s a four-hour standup special. Or rather it&#8217;s four different one-hour episodes. \u00a0But those four episodes are tied together as if it was a single four-hour standup with breaks. It&#8217;s also some of the tightest writing that I&#8217;ve seen in any book, movie, or short &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/james-acaster-repertoire-on-netflix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James Acaster: Repertoire on Netflix&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[144,142,143,145,146],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","tag-comedy","tag-james-acaster","tag-james-acaster-repertoire","tag-stand-up","tag-storytelling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-Op","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}