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'The Get Down Returns' For A Long-Awaited Second Season

Fans everywhere are more than excited for the new season of the hit Netflix series that takes us back in time.

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'The Get Down Returns' For A Long-Awaited Second Season
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Now that spring break has come to an end, we may be losing a bit of free time. Instead of denying it, I chose to remember that the weather is a perfectly acceptable reason to stay in my room and marathon the newest Netflix release.

Much to my excitement, the Netflix original coming of age series "The Get Down" is returning for a long-awaited second season. The show originally came out in August of 2016, but fans were only rationed 6- 1 hour parts, which, 6 hours later, was not enough.

For those unfamiliar, The Get Down is an American Musical Drama set in the South Bronx throughout the late 70s and what was the beginning of the end for disco music. It focuses on a group of boys who find a love for what was to become hip-hop music, running into their idol and local mystery man, who happens to be the apprentice of none other than the Grandmaster Flash.

The series portrays themes of creative freedom, as it simultaneously tells the intertwined story of Mylene Cruz, a talented singer who dreams of performing disco. She is held back by her overbearing father; a local pastor, but is helped out by a family member with previous ties to the industry. The series does a great job at showing the connected stories without spending too much time on any one character.

Aside from the show's beautiful and colorful aesthetic, it also features and extensive soundtrack, which brings Latin music, classic disco, hip hop, and poetry. As someone who deeply values the musical scoring in a film or series, this soundtrack encompasses everything that is the cinematic aesthetic and overall feel that you experience when watching The Get Down.

The first season covered several topics; Zeke's struggle to embrace his intellectual side, the violence and political corruption in the Bronx at the time, and the journey to success, and more importantly, happiness. It shows how much people will do just to guarantee their own success when they should be worried about helping those around them as well.

After watching the show, I don't know what quite to expect from the second season. I assume that it will show the Get Down Brothers in a higher rank of success after winning a significant battle in the last episode of season 1. I'm sure that the same goes for Mylene. As for the rest of

the characters and plot, I can't wait to see where the writers take the story. And we will all find out on April 7th, when the second part hits the screen.

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