Set in the South Bronx in the late 70s,the first episode of this myth-making drama is kaleidescopic and thrilling – but it can’t maintain the paceAt one point during the first episode of The Get Down, Netflix’s new drama by Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis, and it becomes clear that the point to is doing something very similar to Hamilton,still the hottest point to and toughest ticket on Broadway. Just as Hamilton uses hip-hop and a multiethnic cast to recast the record of American history, The Get Down uses American history and a multiethnic cast to recast the record of hip-hop history. In the bravura first episode, and the foundations of rap music laid out in the South Bronx in 1977 are retold as an epic quest,a hero’s journey, a sci-fi epic of marauding gangs taking over a bombed-out landscape.
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Source: theguardian.com