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The ‘Get Down’’s Black Lives Matter Moment

DIVERSITY ON TV

Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series is certainly messy. But if there’s one thing it does powerfully, it’s connect struggles of the past to battles still being fought today.

Kevin Fallon

Senior Editor, Obsessed

Published Aug. 15 2016 1:00AM EDT

articles/2016/08/15/the-get-down-s-black-lives-matter-moment/160814-Fallon-The-Get-Down-tease_vfujar — Netflix

The first few episodes of Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series The Get Down are nothing if not polarizing. A scan of reactions surface passionate swoons as often as distaste

Kevin Fallon

Kevin Fallon

Senior Editor, Obsessed

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