The Get Down

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 12, 2016
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 129 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 104 out of 129
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 129
  3. Negative: 17 out of 129

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  1. bortax_zeven
    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 plotThere 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.… Expand
  2. VonSeux
    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.

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#89 Best TV Season of 2016
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#74 Most Discussed TV Season of 2016
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#83 Most Shared TV Season of 2016

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Emily Nussbaum
    Aug 16, 2016
    50
    The pilot (the one episode directed by Luhrmann) is truly terrible. It’s baggy and self-indulgent, alternately confusing and obvious. The next three episodes aren’t great, either, though they have flashes of interest. ... Then, suddenly, there’s a legitimately fun eureka sequence in Episode 5, as Ezekiel and his young crew invent a new art form. In Episode 6, we get, finally, what feels like a fully original series.
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  2. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    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.
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  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Brian P. Kelly
    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.
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