I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I think Justice Smith does an admirable performance in the first episode and he and Herizen F. Guardiola are together the only thing that have me grounded in this musical-style delivery Moulin- Rogue-for-hiphop play. If this was a Broadway show it would be spectacular and the other stereotypic and overblown characters could almost have been possible to forgive. But this isn't Broadway.With the recent decade of more or less "realistic" TV-series, in the sense that suspension of belief is possible while watching because of you're getting closely knitted to the story with lots of gritty and real details, Get Down comes off as a parody of an highly interesting musical era. Very little of what is presented is believable, if not for the details themselves but for how these are presented or told. That's clearly a stylistic choice, but it's concoction that doesn't gel well.I think some of the stylistic elements of the storytelling could have been acceptable had the attention to acting and presentation been better. It seems like what we get here is what the directors wanted to bring out from their actors, but it's hard to watch without feeling pain for how the potential is handled. The occasional overplaying mixed with good and somewhat believable performances is quite confusing even as it's clear there are some talent at hand. Maybe if you're in another state of mind can you make these disparate details come together, but if you enjoy the finer details of modern TV drama, as opposed to the fake feeling old TV shows typically brought with them and required that you had to accept that stern limitation, and you yet are open to new ways of storytelling, then chances are still that Get Down won't be something you can savour. The depiction of the night club owner and her son are too close to racist stereotypes and almost made me sick to my stomach. Details like that and others make classical Blaxploitation movies looking highly realistic in comparison. The Saxophone playing father, while sympathetic, also feel stereotyped even if you can accept that some fathers had some aspect of a stereotype with them in their persona or how they present themselves to the world. But there's a difference between a realistic presentation of that and a caricature. Where's the love for the characters created here? The street gang depiction almost makes you laugh at its silliness. One-dimensional at best as is true for many other details presented in the first episode. This is supposed to lure me in? Unfortunately not.The little glimpse of the roots of Hip Hop we get in the Vinyl TV-series are in comparison so much more attractive and real. That's a series with a story told with exaggeration, overplay and hyperbole, yet it's much easier to adjust to so you can enjoy the story being told. Not so with Get Down, where the stylistic choices get in the way of everything, including the story. You could say the same about Vinyl, but Get Down is actually worse.I had to turn off just before the end of the first episode, which is very rare. I have no hope for the other episodes. I really wanted to like this. Baz Luhrmann made me enjoy Moulin Rogue once even as I hate musicals, but where unrealistic storytelling works in a musical or theatrical show, the choices made here by the creators Stephen Adly Guirgis and Baz make me cringe. I'm out.

Here's my review of The Get Down. It won't take long, it's written here in rhyme, like a little rap song:This here's a story bout The Get Down show, A Netflix series that you oughta know. It's all about life in 77. Rappin and dreamin bout disco heaven. It's set in the Bronx of old New York. And was co-created by that Baz Luhrmann dork. It has a cool message, so check it out, I don't wanna spoil it, so this is all I'll shout. Check out the show any way that you can. Then come back here and say thank you man. Imma go now before this gets psyche. Thank you for reading, boom, drop the mic!the end of the review, but not of the show, it's comin back round for another go, part two will drop in 2017, floatin and flyin on your TV screen, so go catch the first part, it's available now, catch it any where, somewhere, somehow. This was my rhyme and my little review, now don't just sit there, go watch it, shoo!

The series capture you with individual doses of: musically revolutions, political turmoil, a part of New York almost turned to nothing but rubble during the worst depression since the 1920. And the people, oh, yes beautiful portraits of people with and without jobs, belief in a future, hope, talent and sense of community. The music just blows you away, regardless of age or if you were there, or in any other part of the world, ties the whole series together. Those who in the 1970's were in school, young adult or adult ( adulthood, that's a matter of opinion if you not are an statistical "¤#%/"%¤, that is ) will have shivers going up and down their spines by the series creators masterful way to light up your own "rearwiev mirror". And the young of today will have a brutal lesson in the fact that history isn't just a dull subject in school, it's about people that lived a while back, with the same dreams, struggles, different opinions, not at least when it comes to music, that them selves are going thru right now and themselves will be history in a few years, talking to their kids and get the reply : You do not understand how it is today....... So turn of you smartphones, iPad's and/or PC's..... collect the entire family in the sofa... and love every minute of the show together. The only ones who can have any negative to say about this series after that are the shrinks who suddenly will loose 95% of the "parents/kids", "Nothing changes" , "It was better back in the days" clients......

This is a great story if you never lived in the Bronx during the 1970s. Rife with revisions, omissions and straight up fabrications, it is the "fantastic" story of stereotypes, generalizations, archetypes and characters with no substance or historical grounding at all. This show gets everything wrong. Nice sets, cute costumes, too bad they are largely anachronisms culled from hip-hop story books and not by asking people who actually lived in those times. Far too unrealistic and revisionist for anyone who lived in this era. I wouldn't waste my time with this again, too bad, I can't get back the time wasted on the first 6. It was funny laughing at how wrong they got it, though.More like the Let Down! LOL Keep trying!