The Get Down (2016-)Season 1 Part 2 - 5 episodes (2017)
Watch The Get Down on Netflix
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
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Monday, 24 April 2017
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 Review
The Get Down (2016-)Season 1 Part 2 - 5 episodes (2017)
Watch The Get Down on Netflix
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 Netflix Series Review
The Get Down (2016-)
Season 1 Part 2 - 4 episodes ( 2017)
Watch the Get Down Season 1 Part 2 on Netflix
Created by: Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis
Starring: Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Herizen Guardiola, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jaden Smith, Skylan Brooks, Tremaine Brown Jr., Mamoudou Athie, Jimmy Smits, Giancarlo Esposito
Rating: TV-14
Plot
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx. Zeke's group has a venue and Mylene is becoming a disco star.
Verdict
This season was split into two parts due to production issues. That break in momentum really hurts this. While we get a time jump and this attempt to develop an epic story, I don't know who the main character is. Most entertainment has a main character with side characters that feed that story. This show doesn't have to do that, but I don't know what the main story is. Is this about the emergence of hip hop or the death of disco? Is it about a group of kids rising above the streets or the struggles of a Hispanic businessman? It's trying to do everything and the lack of focus is a problem.
It depends.
Review
With the additional time the show needed, this part of the season employs a lot more animated sequences. At first I thought it tied to Dizzee the graffiti artist, which made sense, but these sequences are employed frequently and it just doesn't fit the tone of the show. No wonder this show's budget was expensive. Episode budgets were project at $7.5 million and ballooned to $10 million. This in part led to the delay.
Part 1 opened in 1977, with these episodes jumping to 1978. Mylene (Herizen Guardiola) has rocketed to stardom unbelievably fast. We know disco will die, but she doesn't. We get a look into the music world with her managers just wanting to use her, plotting to pull her away from the church and trick her into singing raunchier songs. It's not that different from her father who is using her to push his own agenda and his church. You know this war over her star power is going to blow up at some point.
Zeke's family and mentors are pushing him away from the fad of hip hop, but we know that genre will break out big. Zeke has to walk the line of being the minority that makes it out of the slums, but wanting to just make music and forgo college and 'opportunity.' It's a struggle that isn't helped by Shaolin pushing him to forget that world and his family pushing him to succeed in life. The Get Down boys have a venue through Fat Annie, but her drug and gang dealings could spell trouble.
There's a lot going on and the last episode is certainly fully of plot twists and revelations. I like these characters, but they aren't framed well. What is the over arching story? Nas raps at the start of the season, and I wonder if that is Zeke's ultimate plight, but I don't know. This show lacks focus, it tries to do everything. The show wavers between having a direction and wanting to meander. I just want to know what I'm watching.
Season 1 Part 2 - 4 episodes ( 2017)
Created by: Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis
Starring: Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Herizen Guardiola, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jaden Smith, Skylan Brooks, Tremaine Brown Jr., Mamoudou Athie, Jimmy Smits, Giancarlo Esposito
Rating: TV-14
Plot
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx. Zeke's group has a venue and Mylene is becoming a disco star.
Verdict
This season was split into two parts due to production issues. That break in momentum really hurts this. While we get a time jump and this attempt to develop an epic story, I don't know who the main character is. Most entertainment has a main character with side characters that feed that story. This show doesn't have to do that, but I don't know what the main story is. Is this about the emergence of hip hop or the death of disco? Is it about a group of kids rising above the streets or the struggles of a Hispanic businessman? It's trying to do everything and the lack of focus is a problem.
It depends.
Review
With the additional time the show needed, this part of the season employs a lot more animated sequences. At first I thought it tied to Dizzee the graffiti artist, which made sense, but these sequences are employed frequently and it just doesn't fit the tone of the show. No wonder this show's budget was expensive. Episode budgets were project at $7.5 million and ballooned to $10 million. This in part led to the delay.
Part 1 opened in 1977, with these episodes jumping to 1978. Mylene (Herizen Guardiola) has rocketed to stardom unbelievably fast. We know disco will die, but she doesn't. We get a look into the music world with her managers just wanting to use her, plotting to pull her away from the church and trick her into singing raunchier songs. It's not that different from her father who is using her to push his own agenda and his church. You know this war over her star power is going to blow up at some point.
Zeke's family and mentors are pushing him away from the fad of hip hop, but we know that genre will break out big. Zeke has to walk the line of being the minority that makes it out of the slums, but wanting to just make music and forgo college and 'opportunity.' It's a struggle that isn't helped by Shaolin pushing him to forget that world and his family pushing him to succeed in life. The Get Down boys have a venue through Fat Annie, but her drug and gang dealings could spell trouble.
There's a lot going on and the last episode is certainly fully of plot twists and revelations. I like these characters, but they aren't framed well. What is the over arching story? Nas raps at the start of the season, and I wonder if that is Zeke's ultimate plight, but I don't know. This show lacks focus, it tries to do everything. The show wavers between having a direction and wanting to meander. I just want to know what I'm watching.
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 Netflix Series Toy Box Clip
The Get Down (2016-)
Season 1 Part 2 ( 2017)
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 premieres on April 7
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
Season 1 Part 2 ( 2017)
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 premieres on April 7
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
The Get Down Season 1 Part II Netflix Series Trailer
The Get Down (2016-)
Season 1 Part II
The Get Down Season 1 Part II premieres Friday April 7
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
Season 1 Part II
The Get Down Season 1 Part II premieres Friday April 7
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 Date Announcement
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 (2016-)
Season 1 Part 2 - 10 episodes (2017)
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 debuts on Friday April 7
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
Season 1 Part 2 - 10 episodes (2017)
The Get Down Season 1 Part 2 debuts on Friday April 7
Created by Baz Luhrman, the second half of season 1 continues the story detailing the origin of hip hop during the '70s in the Bronx.
Monday, 22 August 2016
The Get Down Netflix TV Review Season 1
The Get Down (2016-)
Season 1 Part 1 (2016)
Created by: Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis
Starring: Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Herizen Guardiola, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jaden Smith, Skylan Brooks, Tremaine Brown Jr., Mamoudou Athie, Jimmy Smits, Giancarlo Esposito
Rating: TV-14
This Netflix original created by Baz Luhrmann tracks the origins of hip hop music in the Bronx during the '70s through six episodes.
Sunday, 14 August 2016
The Get Down Season 1 Review
The Get Down (2016-)
Season 1 Part 1 (2016)
Created by: Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis
Starring: Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Herizen Guardiola, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jaden Smith, Skylan Brooks, Tremaine Brown Jr., Mamoudou Athie, Jimmy Smits, Giancarlo Esposito
Rating: TV-14
Plot:
This Netflix original created by Baz Luhrmann tracks the origins of hip hop music in the Bronx during the '70s through six episodes.
Verdict
This blends kung fu, hip-hop, and the '70s with teenagers just wanting to rebel through song. With multiple story lines like Zeke (Justice Smith) who seems poised to become a rapper, Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) who is a mysterious graffiti artist, and hopeful singer Mylene (Herizen Guardiola), it's never boring, but it just feels like a zany adventure instead of the epic story of the hip-hop invention. I keep waiting to get to the big moment that takes until the sixth episode to arrive. While this has been called a musical, it just features characters singing at different points. This has potential, but it needs to start paying off in part two.
It depends.
Review
The Get Down is an odd surprise. Coming off of HBO's Vinyl, I was expecting something a little more like historical fiction. Shaolin and Zeke's group is about to invent hip hop, but then Shaolin loses his records and then Shaolin's DJ sensei disavows him. The show hints about it's main point, but then the characters suffer a setback. I wouldn't be surprised if scrolling text proclaimed "LEVEL UP", to signal the story progression. This feels like a video game with a lot of action but less story.
The get down is the term for music created by the DJ spinning two records, getting the best parts of them and creating an indelible beat. We get hints of Nas's contributions but for the most part Zeke is still finding his footing as a rapper and Shaolin has yet to level up to DJ supreme status. This often feels like a video game fetch quest adapted to a movie. Somehow the birth of hip hop is linked to angsty teen love.
Shaolin Fantastic is surreal, even mystical. I thought this might be just a point of view, but it's not. He's Bruce Lee if Bruce Lee was a street artist, back flipping over cars and training to become a master DJ.
There's a gang that's reminiscent of The Warriors (1979), and Jimmy Smits is a land developer. You can tell these stories are going to come together, but this runway is long. This show doesn't chronicle the birth of hip-hop, it chronicles the lead up to the birth.
The first episode opens with a modern rapper and flashes back to the '70s, not to make it more interesting, but to show us where hip hop is and from where it came. The series is a lot of style over substance, but that's typical for Luhrman.
Episode two was much more focused with Shaolin learning the trade. He and Zeke try do determine how a crayon is the most important tool a DJ has. Unfortunately this focus only lasted an episode before we return to the frenetic tempo this show sets. When this show focuses on creating beats and raps it works really well, that just doesn't happen often enough.
This throws a lot of drama into the mix, needlessly so as it drowns out the main story or at least what I thought this was about. We learn a lot about a record producer who wants to sign Myelene, but he ultimately seems unimportant.
The end of episode four and the beginning of episode five is strong. In tandem, Mylene develops her song with Zeke raps with Shaolin. Both scenarios are high stakes and pay off. The music is the best part of the show and episode six continues with Mylene's song and the Get Down crew showing their potential.
This has become one of the most expensive series to make with each episode costing more than ten million, and that is the reason the first season is split into two parts.
Through part one of season one, we've gotten one good song, Mylene's. You can the crew's breakout song in episode six, but that's on the line. I was expecting more, but this first part definitely feels like a lot of set up. I look forward to part two, but if it's more setup than payoff I won't watch season two.
Season 1 Part 1 (2016)
Created by: Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis
Starring: Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Herizen Guardiola, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jaden Smith, Skylan Brooks, Tremaine Brown Jr., Mamoudou Athie, Jimmy Smits, Giancarlo Esposito
Rating: TV-14
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| The Get Down |
This Netflix original created by Baz Luhrmann tracks the origins of hip hop music in the Bronx during the '70s through six episodes.
Verdict
This blends kung fu, hip-hop, and the '70s with teenagers just wanting to rebel through song. With multiple story lines like Zeke (Justice Smith) who seems poised to become a rapper, Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) who is a mysterious graffiti artist, and hopeful singer Mylene (Herizen Guardiola), it's never boring, but it just feels like a zany adventure instead of the epic story of the hip-hop invention. I keep waiting to get to the big moment that takes until the sixth episode to arrive. While this has been called a musical, it just features characters singing at different points. This has potential, but it needs to start paying off in part two.
It depends.
Review
The Get Down is an odd surprise. Coming off of HBO's Vinyl, I was expecting something a little more like historical fiction. Shaolin and Zeke's group is about to invent hip hop, but then Shaolin loses his records and then Shaolin's DJ sensei disavows him. The show hints about it's main point, but then the characters suffer a setback. I wouldn't be surprised if scrolling text proclaimed "LEVEL UP", to signal the story progression. This feels like a video game with a lot of action but less story.
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| The Get Down definitely captures the '70s vibe. |
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| Zeke and Shaolin Fantastic |
There's a gang that's reminiscent of The Warriors (1979), and Jimmy Smits is a land developer. You can tell these stories are going to come together, but this runway is long. This show doesn't chronicle the birth of hip-hop, it chronicles the lead up to the birth.
The first episode opens with a modern rapper and flashes back to the '70s, not to make it more interesting, but to show us where hip hop is and from where it came. The series is a lot of style over substance, but that's typical for Luhrman.
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| The Get Down is definitely notorious, though not for the best of reasons. |
This throws a lot of drama into the mix, needlessly so as it drowns out the main story or at least what I thought this was about. We learn a lot about a record producer who wants to sign Myelene, but he ultimately seems unimportant.
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| Mylene is on the heels of stardom. |
This has become one of the most expensive series to make with each episode costing more than ten million, and that is the reason the first season is split into two parts.
Through part one of season one, we've gotten one good song, Mylene's. You can the crew's breakout song in episode six, but that's on the line. I was expecting more, but this first part definitely feels like a lot of set up. I look forward to part two, but if it's more setup than payoff I won't watch season two.
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