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Aug 10, 2016 · Like its co-creator Baz Luhrmann — The Get Down, the new categorization-defying epic hip-hop series from Netflix — is doing the most. Is it a television musical? Is it a drama?
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Aug 4, 2016 · The story and characters remain grounded in a world where love conquers all: Be it love for one another, one’s community, one’s profession or one’s self, “The Get Down” puts idealism in a...
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Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann took to TV for the first time with playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis to create the ambitious and wildly gorgeous The Get Down, a well-cast drama that explores the dawn of...
Set in the late 1970s, when New York was at the brink of bankruptcy and disco was dying out, the rise of hip-hop is told through the lives, art, music and dance of a group of young people in the...
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Aug 3, 2016 · At its heart, though, The Get Down is a star-crossed love story between Ezekiel and Mylene (newcomers Justice Smith and Herizen F. Guardiola), an aspiring rapper and a wannabe disco diva whose...
Aug 9, 2016 · “The Get Down” actually feels like pure Luhrmann. It has echoes of “Moulin Rouge!” and his takes on “The Great Gatsby” and “Romeo + Juliet.” It is unabashedly romantic, sentimental and crazy. At times, it is too much of a good thing, approaching total chaos in its non-stop flurry of activity.
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Aug 16, 2016 · Baz Luhrmann‘s resplendent, hyperactive Netflix series The Get Down documents hip-hop in the days before it was truly documented.