Adding insult to injury is that The Get Down has not been the runaway hit Netflix expected: Symphony Advanced Media’s chart for viewings among 18- to 49-year-olds shows that Stranger Things is far more popular, ranking at number three in comparison to The Get Down at 14.
Netflix always planned for The Get Down to cost a phenomenal amount of money; Baz Luhrmann’s musical drama about the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx was budgeted at $10 million per episode, a total of $120 million for the 12-part series.
However, despite not ranking well with Netflix’s typical user-base, the streaming giant’s interest in The Get Down is not to draw in already-subscribed viewers.
However, production costs on the series are said to have ballooned substantially, with the streaming service thought to be paying $16 million per episode.