“Daisy Jones and the Six” is a beautiful nostalgic adaptation of a best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid that tells the story of a fictional rock band in the 1970s.
Daisy is a well-born girl with a gift: she sings divinely well in the shower and she writes her songs. On the other hand, she doesn’t have too much confidence in herself, and the first time she meets one of her beloved stars, it’s a singer who takes advantage of her. In Pittsburgh, far from it, two brothers decide to get into rock and with friends set up a band. They decide to try everything by going to Los Angeles in search of a producer.
The first is called Daisy. The latter will swap their first stage name The Dunne Brothers in The Six (because even if they are five, the groups with the number 5 are too numerous, starting with the Jackson Five). Daisy and the group will eventually meet. The series in six episodes Daisy Jones and the Six tells their story and plunges back into the world of rock’n’roll, sex and drugs in the 1970s.
like a documentary
The form of the series is interesting, like a documentary. The members of the group answer twenty years later, the hair much better combed and the beard arranged, to a journalist. This is followed by archival images in super 8, and their journey filmed in the orange colors of the films of those years. Except that everything is fictitious, starting with the group itself.
This series, which has been broadcast for a week on Prime Video, takes the form of the novel from which it is inspired. Written by Taylor Jenkins Reid, it consisted of a collection of interviews and testimonies of members of the group. The author was inspired by the story of Fleetwood Mac. The series brilliantly uses the same process.
During the different episodes, we follow the dynamics at work among the members of a successful group; the internal conflicts between the singer-songwriter and the male leader of the group, the difficulty for a woman to break through, until the unexpected breakup when they are at the height of their popularity.
Daisy Jones and the Six, a beautiful dive into 1970s rock and roll with Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, Riley Keough, who has quite the voice. The first four episodes are available on the Prime platform.