Baz Luhrmann's 'origins of hip-hop' Netflix dramatic series "The Get Down"

So awful. Terrible directing in the first two episodes and the acting, for the most part, is .... ¡Dios Mio! Que mierda.

too many storylines in this, everything that doesn't center on the kids is mostly garbage (altho I am intersmittently enjoying the Unbearable Suaveness of Jimmy Smits segments). The music is great though.

this did not turn out well

I started watching the new episodes and I think I got off the bus at "I almost made out with Debbie Harry in the bathroom at CBGB."

lol

yeah it really goes off the rails, increasingly doubles down on everything that was wrong w the debut ep

why is it so hard to make decent retrospective films about music scenes? Films made contemporaneously with the scenes they're documenting/profiling tend to at least have the redeeming quality of accurately capturing *some* aspects of an era, but backwards-looking biopics and series (like this and Vinyl) are so often terrible. Outside of Todd Haynes, who pulled it off twice imo, I can't really think of anyone who consistently delivers on this front.

24 hour party people is great but yeah there aren't really any others i can think of

yeah that one's good. the semi-detached/ironic and relatively freewheeling nature of 24HPP and the Haynes films feel like the way to go

this is kinda terrible but we watched it anyway

I was actually quite moved by Cadillac's closing monologue, given that his character up to that point had been the worst, laziest caricature of the show.

still haven't seen any of this but i saw baz luhrmann being interviewed at the met gala the other day and i must have missed the news that his brain had been transplanted into the body of a realdoll

he has the smooth, matte-finish look of an auton

this show constantly does the Luhrmann thing where 20 minutes goes by and every second feels like the dramatic climax, over and over, until you are bludgeoned into submission.

not being renewed aka cancelled