The Get Down: Baz Luhrmann's Netflix series 'colourful and kinetic'

By Brad Newsome
Updated August 4 2016 - 8:08pm, first published 11:46am
The Get Down ... unmistakably Baz Luhrmann in style. Photo: Netflix
The Get Down ... unmistakably Baz Luhrmann in style. Photo: Netflix

The Get Down has lots of what you'd expect from a Baz Luhrmann production. It's colourful and kinetic. It's full of big characters, big costumes and big musical numbers. And it has a stylised, heightened-reality kind of aesthetic that gives everything a neon fairytale sheen. All of which is well suited to Luhrmann's aim of making "a myth rooted in history".

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