The camera is close to her face, and we watch her form every word as she accompanies herself. When Daisy decides to sing her songs for the first time, she enters an empty bar and sits at the piano.
The miniseries sometimes counters its commitment to authenticity with a hint of fantasy, to excellent effect. When we realize the pain behind this musical drama, we don’t really want to be voyeurs anymore. The novel’s oral history becomes a succession of interspersed talking-head interviews where we see the characters in present-day, spliced with faux-archival footage, like the band’s producer, Teddy Price, appearing on The Merv Griffin Show. Riley Keough captures the headstrong optimism of phenom Daisy Jones, and Sam Claflin’s moody turn as troubled rocker Billy Dunne is equal parts sweat-soaked and sincere. Across the ten-episode runtime, the band members, those close to them, and industry folk offer accounts of what secrets shrouded that fateful night.įans of Reid’s novel will find much to love here.
In the 1970s, the members of Daisy Jones & the Six were superstars, until the group broke up after a show at Chicago’s Soldier Field. The series’ ambitious conceit is apparent from the jump: we’re watching a long-awaited tell-all.
Daisy Jones & the Six offers a fictional twist on the genre that blends historical details and shimmery fantasy into an emotionally charged and often genuinely moving whole. Daisy Jones & the Six, an Amazon Original series adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel of the same name, arrives during an inundation of greatest-hits biopics about musicians from Elvis to “Weird” Al Yankovic.
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