Even with Baz Luhrmann behind it, The Get Down misses too many beats

THE GET DOWN, NETFLIX’S NEW series about the birth of hip-hop, has an unlikely lead character, one who feels things too deeply to speak up. Besieged by the decay of 1977 New York City as envisioned by co-creators Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis, high schooler Ezekiel (Justice Smith) has withdrawn into himself. The private poems he writes help him grieve the death of his parents, both killed by gun violence. “Take a look around,” his teacher tells him after he refuses to read his work aloud. “The Bronx