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The Get Down (TV Series)

The Get Down

2016

Baz Luhrmann (Creator), Stephen Adly Guirgis (Creator) ...

Justice Smith, Herizen F. Guardiola, Shameik Moore, Skylan Brooks ...

7.2

3,927

TV Series. Drama The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City - broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped -- dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[Review Part 2]: It’s a fascinating subject told with vibrancy (...) If 'Part 2' colors outside the lines a few times, it’s only because it’s straining to encapsulate an era of immense creative productivity."	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture	"[Review Part 2]: These chapters are a major improvement for a show that was always fascinating (...) A promising show has become a terrific one."	POS
United States	AV Club	"[Review Part 2]: [It] finds a vibrancy that was often lacking in previous episodes. Even if the plot doesn’t always feel authentic, the show’s spirit certainly does."	POS
United States	Sonia Saraiya Variety	"A gorgeous, fantastical tapestry of music legend and urban history, a reclamation of, and a love letter to, a marginalized community of a certain era (...) The show feels like vital, radical work."	POS
United States	Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"Gets off to a bad start, but improves as it goes along."	NEU
United States	Robert Rorke New York Post	"[A] dazzling, sensuous ode to the last days of disco and the rise of hip-hop."	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"Beyond the sterling performances and addictive soundtrack, what carries 'The Get Down' is the sheer passion infused into every element in this immense production."	POS
United States	Mike Hale The New York Times	"Is ‘West Side Story’ With Rappers and Disco Queens. (...) For worse and for better, “The Get Down” probably should have just been a Baz Luhrmann film."	NEU
United States	Hank Stuever The Washington Post	"A lavish remix of hip-hop history — and a big mess of a TV show. (..) an exercise in glorious imperfection; it’s got the beat, but it’s still grasping for the tone."	NEU
United States	Mark Perigard Boston Herald	"The pilot, directed by Luhrmann, takes stylistic leaps unlike any other series. Without Luhrmann’s hands-on approach, the subsequent five episodes lose a bit of their pep, but none of their appeal, as the story tunnels down into the lives of these young people."	POS

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