Daisy Jones and the Six

Based on the bestselling novel and borrowing heavily from 'Almost Famous,' Prime Video's 'Daisy Jones & the Six' reaches for a vibe but never fully feels ...

That said, the most candid and reflective participants in the documentary are Claflin’s Billy and Morrone’s Camila — a payoff to the anemic framing device. If Billy’s younger brother Graham is explicit in the novel about his issues with his talented, egotistical brother, the show’s Graham is gentle and unbothered. It’s to Morrone’s credit (and the show’s) that she capably stewards the role through genre conventions that would normally stamp her as a doormat or killjoy. “Daisy Jones & the Six” also forgoes one of the main advantages of an oral history (which the novel uses to good effect), namely, that discrepancies in people’s accounts can yield productive doubt about what really happened. They acquire a following, but it’s only after the arrival of Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) — a glamorous and eccentric fixture of the Los Angeles music scene who won’t settle for being a muse but hasn’t quite mastered writing songs of her own — that they achieve superstardom. Even the music — written by Blake Mills with assists from the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Chris Weisman and Marcus Mumford, to name a few — is tailored to evoke something that could have blown minds back then because it borrows so heavily from the stuff that did.

Fleetwood Mac was made up of Lindsey Buckingham (lead guitarist and male vocalist), Stevie Nicks (female vocalist – and sometimes tambourine), Mick Fleetwood ( ...

"And so Lindsey, you and I have to sew this relationship back up. We need to put our problems behind us.'" "I wanted to write a story about that, about how the lines between real life and performance can get blurred, about how singing about old wounds might keep them fresh." Although they also add Graham Dunne (lead guitar) to the mix. We have too much to lose here. And I thought, 'Oh, they’re in love with each other.'

As soap operas set against the world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll go, "Daisy Jones & the Six" is a by-no-means groundbreaking but still-enjoyable account ...

“Daisy Jones & the Six” doesn’t quite qualify as a dream come true, but it does turn its fictional story into a four-star soap, wistfully capturing this musical era broadly and the sometimes-fleeting nature of stardom. But the show mostly works by charting its own course, namechecking cultural artifacts of its era (Barry Manilow and “Rollerball” among them) while more narrowly focusing on the band, with all the festering resentments and simmering attractions that go with the creative process. [“A Star is Born”](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/entertainment/a-star-is-born-review/index.html) to Tom Hanks’ ode to one-hit wonders “That Thing You Do.” Credit that in part to the cast, starting with [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/entertainment/stevie-nicks-christine-mcvie-friendship-cec/index.html) as a source of inspiration. Inevitably, “Daisy Jones” feels derivative of any number of rock ‘n’ roll stories, and the egos and excess that go with them, from “Almost Famous” to the last two versions of

Like all good band histories, Daisy Jones & The Six starts at the beginning: Deadbeat parents, band practice, and cruising down the Sunset Strip.

After a year of rehearsals and bigger and better shows, a manager tells the Dunne Brothers they need to go to L.A., and Camila hops in the van, despite her parents’ clear objections to Billy, his rock-star dreams, and probably also the length of his hair. And lastly, there’s Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse), the English keyboardist the band meets at a gig. The episode ends with the band arriving on the Sunset Strip, staring up at the lights like kids on a class trip, just as Daisy Jones walks down the same stretch of pavement like she owns the place. Figuring out how good she was at belting out a sad song was a reaction to her mother slighting the lyrics she read in her diary. The show remakes Camila into an aspiring photographer, which is a nice excuse for how much band footage they have at their disposal for the documentary. Other real-life flashbacks feel more honest, like the meet-cute between Billy and Camila (a magnetic Camila Morrone) at a Pittsburgh fluff-and-fold. This is the kind of self-mythologizing that works when people are just sitting around and talking about themselves. Daisy is attracted to the refuge of the music, but she’ll stay for whatever substance is on offer, which leaves her vulnerable to the full-grown men who prey on her sexually. Anyway, as this is not a column about the series’s fidelity to the novel, I’ll retire the subject (for now) with a piece of advice. An epilogue to the novel includes the lyrics to some of the fake band’s most intimate and influential fake songs. When the band gives these interviews circa 1997, he seems the tensest in front of the camera and the most skeptical that the other band members — namely, Daisy — are volunteering for this turbulent trip down memory lane. About a year after the band starts rehearsing together, the Dunne Brothers are already booking local gigs — proms, graduations, and even a wedding where the brothers Dunne run into their deadbeat dad, who doesn’t bother to say hi or hide himself away in embarrassment.

A guide to all the adaptation's major differences, from Billy and Camila's first meeting to a new version of “Honeycomb.”

Missing from the series is the novel’s bassist Pete (as well as a previous guitarist Chuck, who dies in the Vietnam War). The group is fronted by lead singer Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) alongside his guitarist brother Graham (Will Harrison), bassist Eddie (Josh Whitehouse), and drummer Warren (Sebastian Chacon). [Daisy Jones & the Six](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/daisy-jones-and-the-six-exclusive-first-look)—the saga of sex, drugs, and rock and roll starring Riley Keough—has taken the stage. The series takes an understandably more visual approach, turning the narrative device into a documentary, where key players give on-camera interviews about their experiences from decades earlier to a (for now) unnamed documentarian. As for Reid, whose blockbuster oeuvre includes The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (coming soon to Netflix), she’s also given the series’ stars a standing ovation. “And so for me, it was always like, I would be so mad if someone adapted a book that I loved and didn’t do the right thing.

Ultimately, it's a show that feels small for a band that was reportedly so big.

There’s also an increasing sense that the show wastes its setting and period by staying in the studio or Billy’s house for such long stretches of time. [Almost Famous](/reviews/almost-famous-2000),” of course, but that’s not a criticism in that the show echoes that film’s joyous creative spirit at its best in these first chapters. Ponsoldt and his team give these episodes a buoyancy, and Claflin and Keough really understand the “hungry artist” chapters best of all, making that blend of ambition and anxiety that often coalesces into creative genius. The interviews establish the older versions of these characters and their bandmates as people with skeletons in their closets, and then the show reveals how they got buried. So the bulk of the drama plays out as a flashback, starting with introductions to Daisy Jones ( Adapted from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name, “Daisy Jones & The Six” uses the tempestuous creative and personal dynamics within the band Fleetwood Mac to tell its own story of a ‘70s band that burned out instead of fading away.

Before Daisy Jones (played by Riley Keough) meets the Six, she is a free-spirited groupie turned aspiring songwriter in Los Angeles, while they're a brother-led ...

The clunky exposition of these three episodes might almost be worth it, provided that the rest of the show delivers. It’s a key part of the story that all comes to a head in the climax, which brings the author into the fold and reveals a crucial twist. After all, the story of Daisy Jones & The Six can only do so much when those two are not together. It’s almost a drag — until the end of the third episode, when Daisy Jones and the Six finally meet in a fiery recording session. Weber attempt to build up who they are and what they want, just like the book did. Before Daisy Jones (played by Riley Keough) meets the Six, she is a free-spirited groupie turned aspiring songwriter in Los Angeles, while they’re a brother-led band from the suburbs of Pittsburgh.

Prime Video drama Daisy Jones & The Six features some actors you've probably seen before ... albeit without instruments.

[Deadwood](https://www.denofgeek.com/deadwood/) and Raylan Givens on [Justified](https://www.denofgeek.com/justified/). Daisy Jones & The Six is not the only fictional musical act in the Prime Video series bearing the band’s name. He also popped up briefly in Boba Fett’s armor as Cobb Vanth on [The Mandalorian](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-mandalorian/) and again in [The Book of Boba Fett](https://www.denofgeek.com/boba-fett/). Though Billy Dunne’s guitarist brother Graham Dunne is a major part of Daisy Jones & The Six (and arguably the reason the band starts in the first place), the actor who plays him has a pretty light C.V. Daisy Jones & The Six drummer Warren Rojas is the platonic ideal of a laidback percussionist. [Poldark](https://www.denofgeek.com/poldark/). [Nabiyah Be is a musician herself](https://www.nabiyahbe.com), along with being a dancer, poet, and an actor. While Fleetwood Mac is very much real (and great!), Daisy Jones & The Six is not real (though also great!). Contributing to that sense of verisimilitude is that the cast of Daisy Jones & The Six all fit their roles to a tee. With that in mind, here is everything you need to know about the cast of Daisy Jones & The Six. Notably he also played Mycroft Holmes in Netflix’s [Enola Holmes](https://www.denofgeek.com/enola-holmes/). Riley Keough is a fitting choice to play lead singer Daisy Jones as music is quite literally in the young actress’s blood.

The Amazon mini-series about the rise and fall of a 1970s band mixes music, nostalgia, romance and a heavy dose of soap opera.

Simone is at the center of one of the show’s lowest points, an extended sequence in which Daisy flees to Greece and marries a European aristocrat, who appears to be introduced solely so he can push Daisy over the brink of addiction (from which she can be rescued by her fellow well-meaning Americans). But their relationship, as portrayed, is kind of a drag, and both characters are unlikable in ways that are supposed to lend authenticity but mainly just make it hard to care about them. The appearance of a cub reporter for Rolling Stone pays homage to “Almost Famous.”) We’re told in passing that Billy hasn’t seen his father in years; when Dad happens to be at one of the band’s gigs, Billy walks up and almost immediately punches him. It’s big, all right, but most of the fun seems to have been lost in the mix — someone dialed down the romance and escapism and slid up the knob labeled “solemn tear-jerker.” You’re expecting “Rhiannon,” but what comes out of the speakers is more like “MacArthur Park.” Their lack of direct experience with the period might have something to do with the show’s impulses feeling more curatorial and fannish than dramatic.

'Daisy Jones & the Six' hits Prime Video on Friday, March 3. Here's how to watch the anticipated series online.

The first three episodes of “Daisy Jones & the Six” will arrive on Prime Video on March 3 at 12 a.m. This volatility ultimately leads to the group’s final unraveling, which each of the members — including Graham (Will Harrison), Karen (Suki Waterhouse), Warren (Sebastian Chacon) and Eddie (Josh Whitehouse), as well as Billy’s wife, Camila (Camila Morrone) — retell in their own disparate versions throughout the series. [review of the series. In the show, Riley Keough (“Zola”) stars as the singer and songwriter Daisy Jones, who teams up with the band the Six. Like many of the iconic bands during this time period, their rise to stardom is as much exhilarating as it is tumultuous, mostly due to the intense rivalry between Daisy and the band’s lead singer Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin). Five years later, the 10-episode season is finally here.

Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's hit novel and starring Riley Keough, this Prime Video series focuses on a fictional 1970s rock band that disbanded at the ...

[Student discount promo code: $100 off the GoPro HERO11](https://www.wsj.com/coupons/gopro) Over 10 episodes (or “tracks,” as they’re described), the series is a memory tour framed by interviews with the eponymous, superstar rock band that played a sold-out concert at Soldier Field in Chicago in 1977 and never performed together again. One way to digest the fictional rock saga “Daisy Jones & The Six” is as a spoof—not just of ’70s pop-star pretensions or celebrity excess but of the historical documentary as a genre.

Picture this: A 1970s rock band at the height of its power, with big egos, big romances and big fights brewing beneath the surface of the music.

But her brassy alto has a twang which, combined with lovelorn lyrics and strummy melodies, gives the songs a country flavor that is dissonant with the rock genre the band is trying to emulate. Weber ("The Disaster Artist"), "Daisy" tells the band members' story in 1997 to a documentarian, 20 years after their heyday of No. Meanwhile, keyboardist Karen (Suki Waterhouse) and guitarist Graham (Will Harrison), Billy's brother, have their own rocky relationship, and bassist Eddie (Josh Whitehouse) feels pushed to the background. Billy's band and Daisy's solo act struggle and scrape by, but when a music producer (Tom Wright) puts them together, they become hugely popular, virtually overnight, even as drama bubbles behind the scenes. It is fleeting Fleetwood fan fiction, a far cry from capturing the true essence of the ’70s era. A VH1 "Behind the Music" documentary?

The Amazon Prime Video series is a rock 'n' roll soap opera that's not exactly based on Fleetwood Mac.

“That Thing You Do” shares more than a few plot points with “Daisy Jones,” with the advantage of not having to oversell the importance of the Wonders. One episode of “Girls5eva” will tell you more about the music business than do 10 of “Daisy Jones,” and “We Are Lady Parts” present a better argument about why one might want to be in a band. This isn’t a new gambit — “The Monkees” was created in part as a machine to sell records that would in turn promote the television show. Most of the character types and incidents in “Daisy Jones,” outrageous or banal, have had their equivalents (and worse) in the real rock world, which does not make the series itself feel especially real. The series expands the role of Daisy’s friend Simone (Nabiyah Be), described as a “disco pioneer,” who in the book serves mostly as a witness to Daisy’s misadventures. One reason these tropes exist, of course, is that there’s truth in them: Numerous episodes of “Behind the Music” have taught us that pop bands experience moments of dysfunction, to put it mildly. Still, I would be very surprised if Keough and Claflin had not studied live video of [Stevie and Lindsey](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-09-10/stevie-nicks-lindsey-buckingham-relationship-timeline) locking eyes on [“Silver Springs.”](https://youtu.be/eDwi-8n054s) That Patti Smith’s “Dancing Barefoot” serves as the theme song for the series underscores the fact that this is primarily Daisy and Camila’s story, focused on women in music and the world, and what was expected of them and from them. (“I’m not the muse,” insists Daisy, whose beauty makes men want to own her. The group that seems to have inspired Reid is Fleetwood Mac, which, with its shifting intramural love relationships, sundry drug problems and issues of control — the soapiest of rock’s many operas — was a romance novel/miniseries waiting to happen. The 10-episode series, premiering Friday on Amazon Prime Video, echoes it with a documentary framing — that is, the action is interspersed with scenes in which characters respond to an interviewer 20 years in the future (the late ’90s, saving the production team the trouble of aging the characters half a century). Reid’s approach also means there’s not a lot of dialogue on the page, and so the adaptation is very much a thing of extrapolation and elaboration, with changes and additions to make it more conventionally dramatic — more like a TV series.

Riley Keough and Sam Claflin star in this highly anticipated drama series, based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Prime members can watch Daisy Jones and The Six for free, as well as thousands of other shows and movies. Only interested in Prime Video? The original music will be released by Atlantic Records during the rollout of the series. The show was created by Michael H. Prime Video is included with your Prime membership. How to watch Daisy Jones and The Six on Prime Video You can listen to ‘ [Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbEg1Rke2A)’ and ‘ [Regret Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=W0ywkDC9rEo)’ a duet between lead singers Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne now. The series is presented in a documentary-style decades after the band’s split, as former band members reveal the truth behind their fallout. It costs £8.99 per month and £95 per year. Daisy Jones and The Six will be available on [Daisy Jones and The Six](https://www.amazon.co.uk/placeholder_title/dp/B0B8NTLJ3M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AF5V5WA1H55S&keywords=daisy+jones+and+the+6&qid=1676975970&s=instant-video&sprefix=Daisy%2Cinstant-video%2C213&sr=1-1), the limited drama series about the rise and fall of a fictional 70s rock group, premieres on March 3. [best-selling book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daisy-Jones-Taylor-Jenkins-Reid/dp/1786331500) of the same name.