We keep on celebrating the best of 2016 with the top television shows that debuted this year. We surveyed The Young Folks staff, and based on popularity, the following shows were ranked as the top 10 new series of the…
Interview: Elliott Wheeler (Composer/Executive Music Producer of “The Get Down”)
Somewhere amidst the rubble fields, graffiti-marked trainyards, and disco clubs, was once the flyest, best kept secret of the entire Bronx during that late 70s era of bell-bottoms and punk. The Get Down, at least how it’s fictionally-depicted in Netflix’s latest…
TV Review: The Get Down 1×5-6 “You Have Wings, Learn to Fly” & “Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice”
In the last two episodes of The Get Down‘s first season, “You Have Wings, Learn to Fly” and “Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice,” the Fantastic Four + 1 prepare for an epic battle in music with a DJ group…
TV Review: The Get Down 1×04 “Forget Safety, Be Notorious”
“Forget Safety, Be Notorious” starts up immediately after the events of episode three. With the Fantastic Four + One having taken advantage of the widespread Bronx blackout, by looting their way to getting new DJ equipment, they now find themselves…
TV Review: The Get Down 1×03 “Darkness is Your Candle”
In the latest episode of The Get Down, the “Fantastic Four + One” find themselves at a loss when Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) parts ways with the group, in frustration. Not knowing any other way to replace their recently destroyed…
TV Review:The Get Down 1×02 “Seek Those Who Fan Your Flames”
In the second episode of Netflix’s new period piece drama The Get Down, Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore) has found his “wordsmith” in the form of Ezekiel “Zeke” Figuero (Justice Smith.) Dreaming of a life in the Bronx’s underground music scene, Fantastic…
TV Review: The Get Down 1×01 “Where There is Ruin, There is Hope for Treasure”
From visionary director Baz Luhrmann, responsible for Romeo+Juliet and the 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby, comes a new Netflix original series that aims to explore the emerging hip hop scene in 1970’s Bronx, New York. Ezekiel “Books” Figuero (Justice Smith) is…