Guardiola) and The Soul Madonnas have likewise advanced, having put out a second record and continuing as rising stars in the disco music scene. It's the perfect chance for a regular DJ outfit for him and The Get Down Brothers, and they soon grow their name and fanbase. Through Annie, Shao gets an opportunity to run his own nightclub. He's not simply the ghetto superhero he was initially portrayed as, but in fact an orphan who crime queenpin Fat Annie (Lillias White) raised, abused, and exploited-as both her petty crime lackey, and sexually. Shaolin Fantastic's (Shameik Moore) depiction as a hood legend is toned-down, as he's now a respected DJ with less of the mysterious air than he had at the series' outset. It all makes for a darker segment than Part 1 as our young heroes continue to be exposed to tragic, real world experiences the more they emerge into it. Romanticized story elements are peeled back to reveal more grit and less glamour. Conflicts within the music industry surface as all involved try to manipulate circumstances for their own personal ends-usually foremost to the detriment of the artists. Part 2 instead looks deeper into the record biz, the drug scene, and municipal politics, illustrating how these worlds overlap and are linked through contradiction inhabited by unethical superpowers who sometimes display virtue as well as virtuous marginalized characters forced into ethically-questionable behaviour. There's a little less of the myth-making, urban folklore feel than Part 1-gone are the innercity misadventures in search of bootleg tapes, rare records, and new graffiti pieces. In this respect the animation is a cool ingredient. But since the style of the show is already cartoonish, the animation is perhaps ultimately redundant as yet another form of narration in addition to the already established rap-narration.
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The animated sequences are outtakes from the graffiti artist character Dizzee's (Jaden Smith) continuing comic book series "The Adventures of The Get Down Brothers", adding yet another layer to this multifaceted universe a TV show using music and art to tell a story about music and art-displaying the postmodern, self-referential aspect of HipHop.
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Styled as an old school cartoon, the animation is reflective of comic book artist Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree, a comprehensive series of graphic novels about HipHop's early days which was used as a guide during the show's production. What's new are short animated sequences interspersed throughout the narrative. Protagonist Zeke Figuero (Justice Smith) is still interning at the Manhattan business office, working on college admissions essays through which he reflects on the duality of his life. This time he's looking back to just over a year after the events of Part 1-which took place in summer 1977-now set in fall 1978. Books rap-narrating (vocals by Nas) flashbacks in a 1996 concert. This second chapter retains some familiar flourishes and nifty production elements from Part 1, such as each episode's title appearing in graffiti text on a subway train rolling by, real New York City 1970s newscast footage inserted between scenes, and interludes of a grown Mr.
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Why create such a great series only to abandon its production midway through? Before I get into the number of factors that likely contributed to The Get Down's demise, I'll start with my Part 2 review: This is a real shame, because it's a groundbreaking work in numerous ways. Then, just a few weeks after the inconclusive Part 2 aired, it was announced that The Get Down had been cancelled, and there will be no more. Part 1 consists of 6 episodes released on Netflix in August 2016, and the 5-episode Part 2 came out in April 2017.
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Set in a mythical version of late 1970s New York City, the tale centers on a group of teenagers in the South Bronx as they pursue their creative dreams while contending with poverty, racism, sexism, and oppressive power players seeking to exploit them for their own various aims. The Get Down, a stylized telling of HipHop's origin story, is one of the most exciting series in recent circulation.