Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Series) Track 10: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (2023) User Reviews

Stays True to the Times ... I'll Watch It Through Again

[MovieBuff5454 · 10/10 · 26 March 2023]

Daisy Jones & the Six was set during the time when I was this same age. The music was wonderful. Heck, it was so wonderful that I've downloaded a few of the songs onto my playlist. The acting was more than grand. Every person perfectly encapsulated how young adults can be deep and loving, while the next day can be selfish and drugged out. Talent runs amok at this age and DJ&T6 reminds us that stoking that talent can be destructive while also being genius. Each character ticked me off and yet, I also identified with their struggles. I laughed outright at the drummer, Warren (played by Sebastian Chacon). How perfect that he was the one who married a movie star and continued doing session work. (Can you say 'Ringo Starr'?). The music industry is a twisted lover who can rip apart lives. DJ&T6 showed us just how cruel that scene could be while also reminding us what fun it was to live. Loved this series. BIG shout out to Riley Keough: I knew she was talented and this series gave her the platform to shine.

Must Watch Show

[optmovie44 · 10/10 · 24 March 2023]

Daisy Jones & The Six is a beautiful and heartbreaking story about the rise and fall of a 1970s rock band. The show is incredibly well-acted, with standout performances from Riley Keough and Sam Claflin. The storytelling is also excellent, weaving together the band's history with the individual stories of its members. The show is a must-watch for anyone who loves music, drama, or just a good story.

The show is set in the 1970s and follows the rise of a band called Daisy Jones & The Six. The band is made up of six incredibly talented musicians, but they are also incredibly flawed. Daisy Jones is a brilliant but troubled lead singer, Billy Dunne is a talented but troubled guitarist, and the rest of the band members are also struggling with their own issues.

The show follows the band as they rise to fame, but it also follows the individual stories of its members. We see how Daisy's childhood trauma has shaped her into the person she is today, and we see how Billy's addiction has destroyed his life. We also see the other band members struggling with their own issues, such as fame, money, and relationships.

The show is beautifully acted, with standout performances from Riley Keough and Sam Claflin. Keough plays Daisy Jones with a raw and emotional intensity, and Claflin plays Billy Dunne with a vulnerability that is both heartbreaking and hopeful. The rest of the cast is also excellent, and they all bring their characters to life with depth and nuance.

The storytelling is also excellent. The show is told from the point of view of the band members themselves, and they are all telling their own stories. This allows us to get a deep understanding of each character and their motivations. The show also weaves together the band's history with the individual stories of its members, which creates a rich and complex narrative.

Daisy Jones & The Six is a must-watch for anyone who loves music, drama, or just a good story. The show is beautifully acted, beautifully told, and it will stay with you long after you watch it.

Not THE Happy Ending, but A Happy Ending

[frank-hood · 10/10 · 6 April 2023]

I reviewed Daisy Jones and the 6 after seeing the first episode that surprised me with how good it is. Over 100 reviewers have responded since, saying most of what needs to be said, and burying my little review.

Now that I've watched the whole show, I just want to weigh in on a few things that I don't think others have touched on especially about this concluding episode.

First, the surprise reveal of the person doing the interviews, really worked like magic. It really enhanced the story.

Next, most people don't seem to have noticed, but everybody gets the happy ending--not THE happy ending, but the ending that matches each members' different concept of happiness.

The fire between Billy Dunn and Daisy doesn't lead to an affair or a divorce, but rather to Billy enjoying his happy marriage and raising his beloved daughter rather than betraying his wife. Daisy gets her self-destructive tendencies in check, and the other band members get to have what they wanted out of life, whether it be as a session musician on some of the great rock albums, or a life of seemingly harmless hedonism.

The very end is the icing on top as it hints that now after Camilla's death (from natural causes years after the breakup of the band), the movie hints that matured Daisy and Billy might actually be able to make a go of the fire they always had, and turn it into something beautiful rather than destructive.

Outstanding.

They still owe me a song

[Trey_Trebuchet · 9/10 · 14 August 2023]

I find it interesting that the last few episodes are where the show derives from the book the most, yet are still about as effective.

I will say that the one character I think I preferred in the novel was Camila Dunne. This show just didn't quite do that version of her the way I had pictured when I was reading it. I miss the super strong-willed, no-b-s wife.

With that being said, Camila Morrone was so exceptional in this series that I honestly think it kind of makes up for it. She added a lot of nuance to the character here still. And I did honestly love the character, I did, just for different reasons from the book.

(Edit; I've thought about this a bit more and I've changed my mind. Camila rocks in this show and I think they did a pretty good job with the character)

Anyway, I thought this was a pretty dang good finale. I understand that book-readers generally like their adaptations as accurate as possible (maybe to an extender that's borderline unrealistic sometimes), but I don't know that the story would have been all that more effective had it been EXACTLY like the book. Things still end exactly where they did in here and I was very okay with it.

That fateful concert was a highlight of the book and is a highlight episode for the series. I like that Daisy ends up becoming the one to ultimately see how screwed up her relationship with Billy is and sort of puts him and herself on their place, despite having such strong feelings for him. The scene of Billy running to Camila is pretty corny, but meh. I still thought it was a pretty powerful scene.

I think the actual music here was great, for this episode and this show. I'm sure some didn't like going back and forth between the concert and the past events of the day.

Claflin, Keough and Morrone deliver their best performances here. Honestly everyone did. The acting was never the issue here. I thought everyone was perfectly cast and performed admirably, even Suki Waterhouse.

I think the ending Simone got here was much better than in the book.

I'm glad Teddy stuck around a bit longer too.

Rod was kind of hilarious😂

Honestly I'm pretty content with this finale and the show as a whole. It isn't perfect, and I'll have to think about if the changes made here are better than the book or not, but I'd probably watch it again. Great music, acting, pacing, editing and surprisingly good cinematography.

A good finale to a pretty good show.

MASTERPIECE!

[SusanaCM · 9/10 · 24 March 2023]

I wasn't ready to say goodbye. It was bsolutely Brilliant! I loved every part of it! Many congrats to all involved in this masterpiece! I need rewatch it all over again. Undoubtedly, is the best thing that came to prime this 2023. Priscilla and E. Aaron watch from the sky with great pride! I have read bad reviews regarding the changed lyrics of the original songs, that missing one of the original band members, to avoid controversy, I don't really know the history of the original band and everything that happened to them, I just know their musical heritage. When I started watching the show, I didn't even know it was based on a real story, and neither did the name of the original band, which surprised me. I have really enjoyed each episode, I could not wait to see the next one every Friday.

A Bittersweet Farewell to Daisy Jones and The Six

[badeclerck · 10/10 · 4 October 2023]

It's always sad to bid farewell to a series, but it's even harder to pull off a beautiful conclusion, especially when it has been excellent from the start. Here, they succeeded. It's emotional, it's sad, it's tragic, and it's poetic to the very end. We witness the band's final concert, an event that we could sense looming throughout the series, but the final fractures become unmistakable as it unfolds. Each of the protagonists confronts their own truth. Daisy finds herself alone, with no one to love and no one to love her back, a lonely heart that couldn't win Billy over Camila. Camila feels deceived and betrayed by the ambiguous relationship between Billy and Daisy, and she contemplates walking away from it all. Karen confides in Graham that she had an abortion, and he struggles to accept it, becoming hurtful in the process. He tries to make amends, but it's too late; Karen won't be there for him anymore. Eddie, true to his pattern, ends up alone and wants to leave the band. He hesitates, but Billy ultimately removes him from the group. All of this shatters the band in the end. We learn that the interviewer, in the future, is none other than Billy and Camila's daughter. It's an emotional moment when we discover that Camila has passed away but wished for Billy, with whom she rekindled her relationship, and Daisy to come together to write one last song. I couldn't hold back my tears; Camila was the sunshine of this series, a source of warmth for everyone, the true mother figure. Then, there's the quote that encapsulates Billy and Daisy's relationship: "Daisy and I, we ignited for the same things. We loved the same things in this world. We faced the same struggles. We were a whole, as it almost never happens. But together, it was chaos. Two natural disasters that need to heal. And we would never have made it. At least, that's my belief. At the time, anyway."

This series is an absolute must-watch, it's fabulous, and it leaves behind a musical legacy that I will listen to every day. Thank you for this moment; all that's left for me now is to read the book.

The unlikable Daisy Jones and the Six

[robert_avis · 6/10 · 3 April 2023]

In my opinion, none of the characters are likable except for maybe Camilla. The story, surprisingly enough, sucked me in so I decided to keep going. I was annoyed every time Riley and Sam were on screen together but I think that was the point. You didn't want it to happen but it was like a car crash you couldn't stop watching. The little twist near the end was actually my favorite part and it made Billy seem likable for the first time in the entire series. However, the actual ending felt like a ripoff of How I Met Your Mother. I hated the ending in HIMYM and I hated it almost as much here, but again, I didn't really care enough about the characters to be that upset.

It kept me entertained enough to see how it ended, but it's not a show I'd go back and watch again.

Horrible ending to a pretty good show

[christopher_roth · 4/10 · 1 November 2023]

The first half is excellent. Daisy and Billy have some drunk intimate moments together and realize that this isn't what they want. They decide to get away from the addiction and get their lives in order. It makes total sense that the band breaks up.

The second half is completely unbearable. Every scene is cheesy and over the top and obvious points are explained in painstaking detail.

Of course this all culminates with Camilla dying so that Billy and Daisy can get together. Now that Camilla's dead Billy can be with his true love, and their totally toxic relationship will be just fine. In fact Camilla even gave her blessing.

I know it's only one scene, but it undoes everything the show was trying to build. The main thing (and this is well studied) is that sometimes the most stimulating exciting relationships are not the ones you should stay in.

They made a good thing bad

[jshea-59600 · 7/10 · 29 January 2024]

Overall I enjoyed this series. I grew up listening to 70s music and I appreciated both the period soundtrack pieces and the new music written in the style of 70s folk/country/rock as well as disco. As an amateur songwriter I felt that the show's presentation of how a songwriting collaboration could work was fairly realistic. The show captured a lot of what life at its best was like for young people in the early and mid 1970s.

The biggest problem for me, unfortunately, is that I didn't understand why Billy would be drawn to Daisy. I feel like the series wanted the audience to root for them to wind up together, and I just didn't see it. Billy is a flawed but basically good person who is trying to manage his addiction and his demons while staying faithful to his family and his art. Daisy on the other hand struck me as an extremely talented, extremely spoiled brat. I can see her appeal as a band member and as a songwriting partner, but she is so pushy and selfish that it's hard for me to think that Billy would ever be attracted to her romantically when he is already married to a lovely, supportive woman in Camilla.

The ending of the series made things worse. I hate hate hate the fact that the story killed off Camilla (in the future) just to allow Daisy and Billy to (eventually) wind up together. I felt like this made the series a tragedy.

OK but is not how I remember the period

[imdb-79952 · 6/10 · 18 August 2023]

It feels like a very modern view of what people think it might have been like back in the '70s. I can't pin it down but I think the costumes feel like they are too perfect.

In fact the whole thing feels to clean. Life in that period was pretty grimy especially for struggling rock stars.

Having said that the acting is good, and the characters are suitably annoying, and keep the plot ticking along nicely.

Daisy's allure and charisma are palpable, but at times her actions and decisions appear inconsistent, leaving viewers with a sense of unpredictability that doesn't always feel intentional. Similarly, the dynamic between the band members, though often compelling, can veer into clichéd territory, making certain conflicts and resolutions less impactful.

Additionally, the show's exploration of themes such as fame, creative struggles, and interpersonal relationships is both resonant and relatable. Yet, there are instances where the narrative becomes a bit too enamoured with its own allure, leading to a lack of genuine exploration of these themes. As a result, certain storylines feel underdeveloped, leaving viewers craving a more profound dive into the characters' motivations and emotions.

I managed the first few episodes and may re-visit it when I've finished watching Peripheral.