With the release of "Hamilton" on Disney +, Jordan and Darrell were finally able to watch the musical biography of founding father Alexander Hamilton - albeit in recorded form, rather than live on stage.
And as we discuss the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, they were thrilled with what they found. It's not that a Broadway hit that won virtually every award really needs defenders at this point - but the Disney + version is beautifully filmed, and it's nice to see that five years later, "Hamilton "still works for new viewers.
Anthony, meanwhile, saw the show in 2015 and listened to the soundtrack several times. But after years of reading "Hamilton" rather than experiencing it directly, Disney + has allowed him to rediscover how virtuoso and entertaining the show is from start to finish, with one memorable song after another.
We had some reservations, about composer Lin-Manuel Miranda's decision to pretend to be Hamilton, and about show politics - we certainly appreciated his attempt to repeat the founding history of the United States as a story for immigrants and people of color, but as others have pointed out, minimizing slavery and celebrating the creation of American financial institutions without criticism seems a bit strange, at least in 2020.
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If you want to move on, here's how the episode breaks down:
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Chronicle of "Hamilton"
30:52 Discussion on the "Hamilton" spoiler
