Big flop

@elsephen

The Get Down is geared to hip hop fans... a much smaller audience. Mostly black cast. In the industry it's known that white audiences are inclined to avoid "black" shows/movies. (unless they're historical)


Hip-hop's appeal has been broadened to at least 60% white males (at least it was about a decade ago) and it's had a huge fanbase all over the world for nearly the past 30 years---and it's been popular in the mainstream just as long. Point being,there's at least nearly two generations of white women/men (and other non-black folks) that have also grown up with hip-hop and love it,too. You make it sound like hip-hop only appeals to some small niche audience,when that hasn't been the case in years and years. And,actually, those claims that white audiences don't like black films/shows is something that has been said by Hollywood for years despite the fact that they've rarely provided any real statistics to back those claims up, and despite the fact that they only make a handful of movies with a mostly black cast per year. Hollywood only says that because of their racism, not because it's an actual fact. That's the same excuse they're always used not to promote black films overseas, even though Hollywood films with big white stars have also flopped in the foreign market--every Hollywood film isn't an automatic hit overseas just because white people are in it---and on top of that, not every Hollywood film is going to translate well overseas,either. Yet there's always this claim that only movies with white people in them are "universal", as if nobody could ever relate to black characters or black people in general in a film or TV show about anything (even though a lot of the issues the main characters deal with in TGD, like love, loss, strength in friendship, anger, danger, death,and despair which are clearly universal, and obviously something anybody can go through,not just something only white people deal with.)

Also, the huge success of drama shows with diverse casts by showrunner Shonda Rimes (the long-running GREY'S ANATOMY,the now-gone PRIVATE PRACTICE, the hugely popular SCANDAL, and the equally huge HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER) and the two recent huge family sitcom hits FRESH OFF THE BOAT and BLACKISH clearly prove that even white viewers clearly enjoy seeing shows that don't feature the same old predictable white family sitcom setup all the time. Same thing with the music business family drama EMPIRE, which quickly became popular and more of a pop culture phenomenon than anyone, even the show's creators themselves, had anticipated. So,the "white people won't watch anything with black people" bull**** excuse just collapses in the face of these major recent examples.

You devoted way too much time to this moron. He's obviously trolling.

Anybody here remember Beat Street?
This show reminds me of that ole flick.

Times Square...the days before Guiliani came along and Disneyed it.