History Series / TheGetDown

Set in the WretchedHive of [[BigAppleSauce New York City]], 1977, ''The Get Down'' is a musical opus that follows the lives of an ensemble of young people living in the Bronx, witnessing the [[DeaderThanDisco death of disco]] and the birth of HipHop. The story is told in the format of the flashbacks of a modern day rapper narrating the story of his youth and the rise of his art.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. On two separate occasions, men are coerced into sex by women in more powerful positions, and in both cases the men are shown to feel disturbed and degraded by the circumstances. ([[spoiler:Jackie Moreno by Leslie Lesgold who then refuses to promote Mylene's record in revenge for Jackie firing her years earlier, and Shaolin Fantastic by Fat Annie]])

** One Episode takes place during blackout on July 13-14, 1977 that affected the city. Interestingly, this ''was'' a pivotal moment in the burgeoning hip-hop scene, as a lot of aspiring [=DJ's=] and [=MC's=] ''did'' loot their records and equipment that night.
** Much of the 1st season also focuses on the mayoral election campaign of Edward Koch.

* Foreshadowing: At the end of the first episode, Adult Zeke appears to be crying when his backup singers are singing the song he recorded with Mylene for her demo.

* GayBarReveal: Rumi realizes that the women on the catwalk might not have been born that way. [[spoiler:He's fine with it.]]

* RealityEnsues: Zeke, when he's coldly rejected by Mylene in the 1st episode, doesn't immediately forgive her. When she comes to the hideout to ask Zeke for a favor, he curses her out and storms off.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Grandmaster Flash was/is a real person, and he had a crew known as the Furious Five (as opposed to the Fantastic Four Plus One), but the semi-magical elements of Shaolin's abilities and his relationship with Flash are somewhat fictional.

** One Episode centers on the 1977 blackout that affected the city.

* GayBarReveal: Rumi realises that the women on the catwalk might not have been born that way. [[spoiler:He's fine with it.]]

Set in the WretchedHive of [[BigAppleSauce New York City]], 1977, ''The Get Down'' follows the lives of an ensemble of young people living in the Bronx, witnessing the [[DeaderThanDisco death of disco]] and the birth of HipHop. The story is told in the format of the flashbacks of a modern day rapper narrating the story of his youth and the rise of his art.

* {{Disco}}: Disco is far from dead in 1977. It's still alive and well and the HipHop scene is just an underground rebel movement. However, it's on its way out.

* MoralEventHorizon: Shaolin Fantastic crosses this when he [[spoiler: Murders Wolf on Fat Annies behest.]]

* TwoferTokenMinority: This is TruthInFiction for the seething mix of cultures in late-70s New York. Queer people of color, women of color, mixed race individuals, all over the place. What's different is that the characters almost exclusively people of color, so what would be twofers on any other show ([[spoiler:the ambiguously bi Rumi,]] all the women) are instead just characters.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One Episode centers on the 1977 blackout that affected the city. Much of the 1st season also focuses on the mayoral election campaign of Edward Koch.

* BigAppleSauce: The series is set in Brooklyn, 1977. In the midst of devastating depression, the city is the WretchedHive that pretty much all modern representations of that trope are based on, if they're not based on the city's situation a few years later when the crack and AIDS epidemics ruin it further.

* TwoferTokenMinority: This is TruthInFiction for the seething mix of cultures in late-70s New York. Queer people of color, women of color, mixed race individuals, all over the place. What's different is that the characters almost exclusively people of color, so what would be twofers on any other show (the ambiguously bi Rumi, all the women) are instead just characters.

* BiTheWay: Rumi and Thor

* TwoferTokenMinority: A number of the characters fit the bill, such as Zeke (who is biracial) and Rumi (black and AmbiguouslyBi). This is TruthInFiction for the seething mix of cultures in late-70s New York.

* Gay Bar Reveal: Rumi realises that the women on the catwalk might not have been born that way. [[spoiler:He's fine with it.]]

* TokenTwofer: A number of the characters fit the bill, such as Zeke (who is biracial) and Rumi (black and AmbiguouslyBi). This is TruthInFiction for the seething mix of cultures in late-70s New York.

''The Get Down'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original series created by Stephen Adly Guirgis and Creator/BazLuhrmann that premiered in August of 2016.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Rumi

Set in the WretchedHive of [[BigAppleSauce New York City]], 1977, ''The Get Down'' follows the lives of an ensemble of young people living in Brooklyn, witnessing the [[DeaderThanDisco death of disco]] and the birth of HipHop. The story is told in the format of the flashbacks of a modern day rapper narrating the story of his youth and the rise of his art.

* DeaderThanDisco: Averted. Disco is still alive and well in 1977 and the HipHop scene is just an underground rebel movement. However, it's on its way.

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