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This is one of those statements that in retrospect seem appallingly obvious. Of course The Acquire Down is good. Anyone who has seen the show would be rigid pressed to disagree. It’s technically excellent, filled with vibrant characters, and every scene builds towards something bigger and more satisfying later in the story.
And it’s not finished yet.
I was interested in watching The Get Down when it first released on Netflix because it’s produced by Baz Luhrmann, the guy who directed Moulin Rouge! and William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. He’s known for lavish productions that emphasize storytelling through conventions of various heightened realities: in Moulin Rouge! it’s about the repurposing of pop music to tell a version of La boheme set in 1890’s Paris, and in Romeo + Juliet it’s about pairing Shakespearean language with a 1990’s Los Angeles styled Verona setting. Luhrmann’s projects are beautiful high concept affairs, and I expected no less from The Get Down. It delivers on this promise.
The show’s plot revolves around the struggles of three teens living in the Bronx in 1977: E
Netflix are back with another original that you can spend the next couple days gorging on. This time is is the brainchild of big shot director Baz Luhrmann (of Moulin Rouge and Superb Gatsby fame) and deals with the South Bronx music scene in the in the late 1970s. While looking at the fall of disco and the rise of hip hop and rap, the central story focus on Zeke Figuero, a gifted poet who is currently drifting through school and wasting his talent. Our story begins with Zeke being in love with a girl, Mylene, who dreams of leaving the Bronx to become a disco star. Along the way Zeke meets Shaolin Fantastic, a gang member, and together they create DJ and MC team.
I think it is fair to say that The Get Down has received mixed to positive reviews across the internet. And while I don’t think it was a perfect series, I reflection it was very enjoyable and simply 6 excellent hours of TV. The shifting tone of the show seems to be what it gathering the most criticism and it is confusing at times. One moment the present is gritty dealing with gang violence, drugs and sex but the next second it’s campy and over dramatic show conclude with dance fights, and then suddenly it’s this huge sprawl
I'm Black and Queer, and I Don't Care if I Lose Roles Over It
HBO Max's teen drama series,Genera+ion, follows several elevated school students navigating their conservative community while Gay. During the pilot episode's first few moments, Chester Morris, played by player Justice Smith, confidently wears a rainbow crop uppermost to school, which later earns him a attend to the front office and a notice of a dress code violation—his third of the year so far, we absorb.
In real life, Smithhas also spent the last year navigating heteronormative Hollywood as an openly lgbtq+ person. Best known for his roles in All The Bright Places and The Get Down, the 25-year-old actor opened about about his sexuality in an Instagram post amid last summer's Black Lives Matter protests. (He's resistant to call it 'coming out.')
"We chanted ‘Black Trans Lives Matter,’ ‘Black Queer Lives Matter,’ ‘All Black Lives Matter,'" he wrote of his exposure at a protest. "As a black queer human myself, I was unhappy to see certain people eager to say Jet Lives Matter, but maintain their tongue when Trans/Queer was added."
Since then, he's called for greater attention As I continued to watch Netflix’s new show, The Get Down, I realized that by episode five it was exploring something other than the rise of hiphop in the seventies. Disco’s presence in New York was already something to talk about, even its underground presence was electric; it was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. The Become Down with its exploration of youthful Mylene’s career as a disco celebrity goes into an alternate storyline where an older and already popular genre of music is understandably dominated by a group of social outcasts. Unlike Zeke and his friends, Mylene has to find a way to stay out amongst the thousands of disco records that arrive out and fade away quickly. With infamous music producer, Jackie, she produces a record that’s unique, sexual, and oddly religious. The record breaks the mold that’s been set for disco, and it does so pleasantly. However as Mylene and Jackie struggle to procure their record played in clubs, Dizzee (played by Jaden Smith) accidentally stumbles upon the glamorous world that is underground disco. When he first walks into that club, you just comprehend that something fresh and exciting is happenin Whether you want more or less of it, everyone knows that there’s a lack of Homosexual representation in TV shows. If you turn on the TV there will most likely be a straight couple in whatever is being shown. However, there’s a very small chance you’ll find a homosexual couple and if you do, they will probably both be white. It’s even more unlikely for you to turn on your TV and uncover a transgender nature, an asexual personality, or a polyamorous relationship. However, we all know that to watch a series we don’t desire to use our TV because Netflix exists and luckily, it tends to have better inclusion. It definitely doesn’t have enough visibility as it should have, but it’s getting there. In the majority of the Netflix first shows I’ve watched, there has been at least some sort of Gay representation which is certainly better than none. So instead of sticking to watching the shows being aired on TV filled with only heterosexuals, how about watch some (or all) of these 3 Netflix original shows which feature LGBTQ+ characters. If you’re part of the LGBTQ+ community, you’ve most likely wThe Get Down is The G.O.A.T (Part Two)
1. Orange Is The New Black