Netflix's 'The Get Down' Reviews

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Armadilo

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Get Down Trailer
created by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!,The Great Gatsby)
First 6 of 12 episodes to air Aug. 12 (Netflix)


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Look, an Empire isn’t built every day and, as HBO’s now-canceled Vinyl from Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese and Terry Winter ultimately sadly revealed and Showtime’s Roadies from Cameron Crowe makes clear,
music-based dramas are hard to get right. Once it gets going, Luhrmann’s streaming-service debut has a lot more hits than misses as this version of the Bronx 1977 creatively burns brightly.
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THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE: Luhrmann detractors will probably say that The Get Down bites off more than it can chew — and they won’t be wrong — but some of those bites are, nevertheless, delectable.
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Hollywood Reporter

Netflix's new drama The Get Down, chronicling the rise of hip-hop and the downfall of disco in a smoldering, chaotic New York, is a gigantic hot mess from Baz Luhrmann. It suffers from a 90-minute pilot that will be divisive in its aesthetic choices
— think West Side Story, not Spike Lee — but rises again in the next two episodes to give all the crazy a chance at becoming something really good.
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Seems like a good music-based drama series based off the early reviews
 
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RatskyWatsky

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Heckler456 said:
I don't think there has been a musical type deal that I haven't hated to some degree.

Kinda liked Sweeney Todd though. But that's about it. I think it's got the aesthetic thing as well.

I just don't like the genre, nor the singing.
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Oh it sounded like you had avoided the genre entirely until now.
 
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CHC

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Frankly I'm surprised this isn't outright terrible. Definitely will check out an episode seeing as it's on Netflix so it's basically the most low-stakes prospect imaginable to give it a fair shake.
 
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Heckler456

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RatskyWatsky said:
Oh it sounded like you had avoided the genre entirely until now.
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Come to think of it, I'll put the Scrubs musical episode in the like-column as well.

And yeah, I try them out from time to time, but it has to be like top quality for me to be able to appreciate it, I think. That, or have some other hook.
 
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yanipheonu

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Screw Baz Lurhmann (I only hate cause if he wasn't so over reliant on fluff and gimmicks he'd actually be a grand director), but yeah, I guess he would be right choice for a tv musical. Hell, with the lower budget, maybe they can reign him in a bit, get some solid performances out,
 
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yanipheonu said:
Screw Baz Lurhmann (I only hate cause if he wasn't so over reliant on fluff and gimmicks he'd actually be a grand director), but yeah, I guess he would be right choice for a tv musical. Hell, with the lower budget, maybe they can reign him in a bit, get some solid performances out,
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There's no lower budget. :p
 
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Hagi

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yanipheonu said:
Screw Baz Lurhmann (I only hate cause if he wasn't so over reliant on fluff and gimmicks he'd actually be a grand director), but yeah, I guess he would be right choice for a tv musical. Hell, with the lower budget, maybe they can reign him in a bit, get some solid performances out,
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Pretty sure I read they went over their already huge budget. Sounds like he bit off more than he could chew as well because originally he wasn't supposed to be directing I think. Hopefully it turns out good.
 
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yanipheonu said:
Screw Baz Lurhmann (I only hate cause if he wasn't so over reliant on fluff and gimmicks he'd actually be a grand director), but yeah, I guess he would be right choice for a tv musical. Hell, with the lower budget, maybe they can reign him in a bit, get some solid performances out,
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Sony wanted to reign him in, Netflix said "Fuck no, his way or the highway!" and delivered $120 million dollars to the mad man. That is how The Get Down was made.
 
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Discotheque

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I'm hyped for the hip hop focus and nas but those reviews don't sound great to me. They sound like the usual baz luhrmann turds.

Still I'll check it out for the subject matter

Edit: I liked romeo and juliet tho and I thought joel edgerton was pretty great in gatsby
 
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Jb

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Oh man, I was really hoping this would be a homerun :/ I'll still watch it obviously, hopefully the series ends up hitting its stride after the first few episodes.
 
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Stumpokapow

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Bleepey said:
I am a bit surpised Netflix are only dropping half a season at once. Sign of things to come?
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They've done this with two other shows - Ashton Kutcher's the Ranch, and Terrace House which is a Japanese coproduced reality show. So this isn't the first time, but I agree it is unusual and I am surprised more TV journalists have not talked about this shift. Is this an admission that hey can't build lasting interest in their shows by dumping them at once? Many of their shows seems to be well received and well liked, but disappear after a week.
 
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Music shows are hard to get right for a variety of reasons. I wouldn't envy anyone trying to make one.
 
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Rhaknar

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whats up with Netflix's new staggered releases?
 
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Stumpokapow said:
They've done this with two other shows - Ashton Kutcher's the Ranch, and Terrace House which is a Japanese coproduced reality show. So this isn't the first time, but I agree it is unusual and I am surprised more TV journalists have not talked about this shift. Is this an admission that hey can't build lasting interest in their shows by dumping them at once? Many of their shows seems to be well received and well liked, but disappear after a week.
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I think it's too early to say at this point. It could be a matter of logistics and/or simply experimentation.
 
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Sounds good enough, but when talking about one of the most expensive (the most expensive?) TV series ever created, "good enough" doesn't actually sound good enough.

Also, holy shit, it's the first time I realize that Jaden Smith is in this. Gonna be interesting if this will finally be the moment he can redeem himself.
 
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Stumpokapow said:
They've done this with two other shows - Ashton Kutcher's the Ranch, and Terrace House which is a Japanese coproduced reality show. So this isn't the first time, but I agree it is unusual and I am surprised more TV journalists have not talked about this shift. Is this an admission that hey can't build lasting interest in their shows by dumping them at once? Many of their shows seems to be well received and well liked, but disappear after a week.
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Maybe they could do some course correction or see the direction the latter half of a show could go.
 
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Bleepey said:
Maybe they could do some course correction or see the direction the latter half of a show could go.
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I'm not sure how long they're planning to wait before releasing the second half but it seems a little tough to rejigger it this late in the game. Unless the reaction is really catastrophic.
 
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Bleepey said:
I am a bit surpised Netflix are only dropping half a season at once. Sign of things to come?
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IIRC an article said that the split had something to do with post-production and how the other episodes aren't simply ready yet? They did promise that there will be some sort of time gap in the storu between parts 1 and 2, and now that reviewers are saying that this is somewhat a musical, it could even count as Acts 1 & 2.

Second half is slated to release early 2017.

I'm pretty hyped about this even if the pilot seems all over the place. Really can't wait for next week!
 
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RatskyWatsky

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addik said:
IIRC an article said that the split had something to do with post-production and how the other episodes aren't simply ready yet?
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Yes, it was in that Variety article:

The complexity of production and post-production contributed to the decision to release season one of “The Get Down” in two parts, a departure from Netflix’s binge-friendly strategy of releasing all episodes at once. Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of original content, says the season-one storyline has a natural break at the end of the summer of 1977, and producers wanted to mirror that timing with the release. Principal photography on the 12 episodes is completed but for a few touches to be added to the later episodes; the second half of the season will drop in the first half of next year.
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Salsa

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suspected this would be divisive at best and reception seems better than I thought tbh

was and am still there day 1
 
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UnemployedVillain

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I've watched the first 3 eps. I've liked it so far. I'm not really sure what to compare it to since I don't usually watch musical type shows, but it kind of reminds me of Black Dynamite if anything
 
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Servbot24

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Couldn't find an OT...

Anyhow just finished this and loved it, messiness and all. It was like a live action disco samurai anime or something.
 
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