Do we have a post yet about The Get Down?

[dowagercountess]

I love it, but I'm also perturbed it was directed by a white dude.

[dr.girlfriend]

Ha, I just brought up to DH last night that we should watch this and he's like, "It's already queued up!" I'm conflicted about the director part...I understand the necessity of having a "name" to get projects off the ground, and those "names" are still going to be disproportionately white, but hopefully as more projects like this succeed it'll open the field. Normally I would say it would be great to get guest directors of color, but with Baz Luhrmann's very distinctive style I don't know how realistic that is.

[sweetday]

I havent finished it.

[andwhat]

We have only seen 2 episodes. At first H was like 'who rec'd this?' but now he loves it. We won't have any TV til Monday but after that we will definitely be finishing it.

[sfy]

Why are you perturbed by that?

I love it.