TV Review: Daisy Jones & The Six Are My New Fave Band
Fame and money are tricksters. On one hand, they really do bring you safety and joy. I do not know who started that rumor that they do not. Yet, fame and money are exterior things. You can cry in a beautiful mansion, and feel like absolute poop while everyone asks for your photograph. If anything, at best, they are pacifiers, but peace, itself, is a separate beast, and for Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), they really thought becoming stars would make them feel like the moon.
I have interviewed a lot of artists, and am even making my own music now, and most of us have a very similar concept of money and fame as somehow healing. Imagine, if all your life you were bullied and had abusive parents, and you grow up to sing to a world that thinks you are a lyrical godsend. That is the story of Daisy Jones, and many others like her such as, Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin. Riley Keough embodies a sweetness and majesty to Daisy that every man in a 5 mile radius tries take under her crochet top. They sexualize her and use flighty words like ¨muse¨ and ¨inspiration¨ to excuse taking her work from her. After all, is she going to use it? Is she going to be a STAR? Welp, not with her self-esteem…. for now.
Billy never had a problem with confidence. In fact, his problem was focus. If Daisy put her heart into her music, but Billy’s heart was so all over the place, it could get lost. Sam Claflin is so from the 70s it is hilarious. His hair, swag, and personality SCREAM I met my wife at Woodstock, of which Camila Morrone´s Camila nearly steals the show by creating a character that exudes both love and peace. She is kind and un-messy, of which Daisy, for however generous she is as spirit, can, easily, become empty because of all her wounds and demons. You almost feel protective of Camil as the series progresses, and feel half tempted to send her a telegram or whatever the hell they sent back then to tell her, ¨Baby, leave him! You are too solid for his instability!¨ Yet, also understand why Camila and Daisy fall for Billy. He is a good guy and a bright dreamer, whose pitfall is that he wants it all and can barely handle any of it.
Daisy Jones & The Six is aesthetically a vibe. It is a pretty, immersive, and makes you want enter its world and watch its characters destroy it. Of course, there is the big 3, that I mentioned above, but it is hard not to fall for the likes of Ski Waterhouse Karen, Will Harrison’s Graham, and Sebastian Chacón’s Warren, whom seem to be the only ones focused enough in remembering they get to travel the world and sing for money. This was what they wanted, but for Daisy and Billy, they may have wanted this and each other but they did not want themselves. Thus, secondary characters like, Nabiyah Be´s Simone, Josh Whitehorse’s Eddie, and Timothy Olyphant´s Rod, feel like bridges to watching how their brilliance does not matter if their soul is already burnt out. Who you let into your world can affect your dreams, and filmed like a music documentary, you already now that you are seeing the beginning, broken pieces of combustive aftermath. How did Daisy Jones & The Six end and why is the question of this series, but the heart is its performances. Daisy Jones & The Six premieres on Prime Video March 2.
