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Originally Posted by Barry Champlain
Can't believe no one has mentioned The Get Down yet.
I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish. I'm familiar with the musical history part and the era overall as it essentially gave birth to disco which gave birth to house music and of course the beginning of hip-hop...Which enormously influenced pop-cuture from then till now and still building - The seeds of it are all pretty much shown as they get planted and begin to grow in this series.
It's done in that slightly surreal Baz Luhrmann visual style making segments of it a lil' cartoon'ish in a sense - But it really works for this series which I guess is a musical in a sense albeit an incredibly modern one.
Just really really good imo and 100% worth checking out. Again can't believe noone has mentioned it yet.
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Originally Posted by amusedlol
It's a very fun series even if it is pretty predictable.
Dredging up these old reviews of The Get Down from 8 months ago as I'd say I agree with both of them 5 episodes in. It's really fun, and fast, and full of life. Unlike Barry above I'm not familiar with the music history aspect of it at all, or even particularly into hip-hop, but it's an interesting story regardless and as a not-ancient person it's also interesting to see the gritty, dirty setting of 1970s NYC that I haven't really seen much before.
Anyway, topical to bring up this show again as part 2 (5 more episodes, to go with the 6 episodes released earlier) was just released last week. The first ep (of part 1) is 90 minutes and you'll probably have a good idea from watching it whether you'd like the show or not.