Review: Based on the bestselling novel and borrowing heavily from “Almost Famous” and “A Star Is Born,” Prime Video series tries to portray a vibe but never fully feels it
Things get messy when Daisy and Billy start writing and performing together. She adds complexity and despair to songs about his wife, and he brings discipline and structure to her lyrics. The pair hate each other, sexily. But they also connect because they’re gifted egotists who share core qualities that drove them down different paths: Billy, an ex-addict, sees Daisy’s erratic behavior as a byproduct of the desperate self-medicating he perfectly understands.
The unexpectedly complicated and restrained dynamics of this love triangle are what the show handles best, even if it’s overlong at 10 episodes. Keough plays Daisy as assertive but open, with a winsome combination of take-no-prisoners savagery and stochastic, captivating warmth. But what, beyond a juicy love story, do we want from a reverse-engineered nostalgia piece about a ’70s band? Should it channel something raw and real about what the decade felt like? Produce great music uncontaminated by modern sensibilities? Ironize forms — such as the oral history or the rockumentary — that have ossified? Explore the intersections of trust and regret? Mine rock history for insights we can only really appreciate now, 50 years after the fact?is fun, but on most of these other...
“Daisy Jones & the Six” also forgoes one of the main advantages of an oral history , namely, that discrepancies in people’s accounts can yield productive doubt about what really happened. Not so in this series: The consensus among the principals is surprisingly strong, the camera’s nosy omniscience confirms that Things Happened This Way, and the talking heads tend to simply re-narrate what you just saw.
This all speaks to a somewhat puzzling allocation of resources. Showrunners Scott Neustadter and Will Graham invested vast sums in certain kinds of historical “verisimilitude,” carefully re-creating the legendary Sunset Strip bar Filthy McNasty’s in the actual present-day Viper Room, for instance. But little effort went into aging the band members and even less went into the crucial work of writing them as older.
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