SummaryEzekiel (Justice Smith), Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore), Boo-Boo (TJ Brown), Ra-Ra (Skylan Brooks), and Mylene Cruz (Herizen Guardiola) are teenagers in South Bronx as hip-hop, punk, and disco emerges from 1970s New York in this Baz Luhrmann drama.
Created By:Stephen Adly Guirgis, Baz Luhrmann
❮ The Get Down
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Aug 1, 2016
Metascore
Generally Favorable
69
User score
Generally Favorable
7.9
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Aug 5, 2016
100
Beyond the sterling performances and addictive soundtrack, what carries The Get Down is the sheer passion infused into every element in this immense production.
Aug 11, 2016
80
What makes this series sing above all else is its vivid and frequent grasp of the verve and vigor that drives its characters forward, that feeling of sacred, magical significance that thrills and fuels every budding artist and has the power to bring a particular wonder into lives of those without knowledge that it even exists.
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Generally Favorable
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103 Ratings
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17 Ratings
17 Ratings
Oct 25, 2017
10
A fantastical show with heart that was cancelled far too soon. It had a story it wanted desperately to tell, with a cast full of young, bright actors with even brighter futures ahead of them. It was artistic, quirky at times, real and dreamlike all at once. Truly a mistake of Netflix to let it go.
Sep 8, 2016
10
I don't know or care who Baz Luhrmann is, was never a fan of hip hop, and I wasn't prepared to enjoy Jaden Smith (I didn't know it was him until I paid attention to the credits) ... but this is a masterpiece. Maybe its because I was 15 in 1977and so remember disco, punk and this extremely fertile period for music - includi hip hop. I used to go to discos but clearly I missed the hardcore scene - this is a 2nd chance. Every so often the show delivers a powerful jolt of deja vu that makes me happy ("jelly shoes!"). Thank you for this. How amazing to see the genius of the creators to think to capture such icons of this age in random moments. And I'm finding it intensely interesting to see how hip hop emerged, and have a new respect and like for that art form, and its connection to graffiti. The music is fantastic, the characters are 3-D and I feel for them. Thank you Netflix.
Aug 4, 2016
80
The show’s pastiche resolves into 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, told through the unreliable tools of romance, intuition, and lived experiences. All that can be alienating, but simultaneously, the show feels like vital, radical work.
Aug 12, 2016
70
The show is so infectiously fun—in its up-tempo numbers, production design (all high-waisted, polyester pants and vinyl-topped cars) and the historical characters who pop up (from DJ Kool Herc to Ed Koch)--that it rises above its shortcomings. Add to this the shining performances of Ms. Guardiola, Mr. Moore and Mr. Smith and it’s hard not to be charmed.
Aug 11, 2016
60
The Get Down is ambitious, and sometimes it’s even fun. But it takes a whirling dervish approach to its visuals and its storytelling in a way that doesn’t do justice to its cast or to the fire behind this important moment in music history.
Aug 11, 2016
50
After the premiere the tone and style shift significantly. The storytelling takes on more of the quality of a midlevel sitcom, or the ’70s and ’80s films of Michael Schultz (“Car Wash,” “The Last Dragon”), and the big moments become increasingly maudlin. For worse and for better, The Get Down probably should have just been a Baz Luhrmann film.
Aug 13, 2016
40
"Bloated," "derivative," and "self-important" all seem fair, as does "scandalously overpriced." If producer-director Baz Luhrmann really, as has been reported, spent $120 million and 10 years to develop this thing, Netflix's accountants should be taken out and shot, and I don't mean with a camera.
Aug 27, 2016
10
Wow! I didn't think I would ever really like anything Baz Luhrmann's had a hand in so I was skeptical about this but boy oh boy does it deliver. This has got to be one of THE BEST television shows of all time!!! I seriously cannot say enough positive things about it. As a DJ and a huge fan of old school hip hop and disco this show is absolutely everything I could want. It's so well made in every aspect; the actors are phenomenal (apart from Jayden Smith who's a little wooden although he's still really likeable imo), the cinematography is stunning, the dialogue is well written with plenty of drama and humour throughout, the music is sublime and the styling is amazing. It's so perfect that after 6 episodes I'm GAGGING for more. If they don't make a second season of this I will be really disappointed. Spending time with these characters in this world is an absolute joy. I don't understand why people keep saying the tone of this show has something wrong with it; NO IT DOESN'T. It's a coming of age adventure set in Brooklyn about a group of kids who get into DJing and MCing, there's music, there's comedy and there's drama, what's so complicated about that? The tone of the show is consistent to me; it's like an old Spike Lee joint stretched into a TV show. I appreciate that not everyone will be into the setting and the focus of the show but denying the fact that every second of this is pure magic on the screen is just foolish, The Get Down is perfection.
Aug 23, 2016
10
Pretty amazing little piece of cinematography! I am sure this show has it's influences, as far as how it is 'put together' , but me personally, I have NEVER seen a 'piece of work' like this. VERY original, and high quality cinema.
Aug 22, 2016
10
An excellent serie. Baz Luhrmann created a story with a huge soul. The music and the cast was awesome. I don't have word to describe it, simply I loved it. Highly recommended.
Aug 24, 2016
3
If I hear the word "grandmaster" one more time I think I'll vomit. The production value of this series makes The Fresh Prince of Bel Air looks like an Scorsese movie. The original music here is embarrassing.
Aug 14, 2016
1
There aren't enough words to explain this disaster. Every other line is a cliche. The actors all speak like they just graduated Julliard. There is nothing about The Get Down that actually resembles NYC in 77. The stock footage of NYC at that time is spliced in obviously and clunky. The choppy zoom and pan camera and editing is nauseating. The sets look like a television commercial All plot threads are old and done: girl who wants to make it has overbearing controlling father: haven't seen that before. This is a white persons twee fantasy about the origins of hip hop. It's an endless cringe fest. It can't figure out if it's slapstick, heartache teenage romance or coming of age story. Baz Lurhmann is the worst hack to ever ruin a story. The writing is terrible. It's an unbelievable fail in every shape and form.
