'The Get Down' Review: A Grand, Flashy History of Rap

It’s one thing to make a TV series about music because you love the songs and the lifestyle (see Showtime’s Roadies). It’s another thing to make a TV series about music because you want to re-live the nostalgia of your youth (HBO’s Vinyl was, now in its cancelled retrospect, Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, and Mick Jagger’s memory production).