The Get Down

When I first heard Bruce Springsteen’s “Jungleland” as a ten-year-old, it sounded gritty. It sounded real. It…

In film and television, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” almost always spells trouble. And why…

When reviewing The Get Down, many critics (myself included) have focused on the show’s criminal element—its…

Early on in “The Beat Says, This Is The Way,” Marrakech Star’s Roy Asheton insists that, if Mylene wants to be taken…

When reviewing the front half of The Get Down’s first season, most of my criticisms revolved around the series’…

At times, The Get Down has deftly connected people from different backgrounds by showing them go through similar…

Many of The Get Down’s characters have the opportunity to go down a single path in “You Have Wings, Learn To Fly.”…

Because it doesn’t have a musical sequence as stunning as any of the episodes that came before it, “Forget Safety,…

Ever since the series was announced, The Get Down has described itself as tracing the birth of hip-hop, punk, and…

Throughout the first half of “Seek Those Who Fan Your Flames,” we get several exhilarating sequences involving…

In 2016, the musical drama has a gangster problem. HBO’s Vinyl suffered from it, and Netflix’s The Get Down suffers…

Binge-friendly. Binge-worthy. Bingeable. The words are used frequently, but what exactly do they mean? After all,…