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'Daisy' aims for an epic love triangle that is meant to pull heartstrings along with guitar strings, but to be successful that would require chemistry, heat and stakes behind it. More: Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Carrie Soto Is Back' is a perfectly timed ode to Serena Williams It's impossible to believe that Billy could be one and bring an entire band with him. But it's impossible to connect with any of these characters because every move and emotional beat feels contrived. Take Billy: Claflin has jawbones that could cut glass and a mop of brown hair (a wig) constantly falling into his clear, sparkling eyes, but he lacks the musical chops or ineffable magnetism of a ’70s rock god.

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I haven't read Reid's book, so it's hard to tell if Amazon's series is a surface-level adaptation or is working from shallow source material.

(The band's drummer Warren, played by Sebastian Chacon, exists blissfully drama-free in the series, and is a carefree delight.) No one is helped by the vices of rock legends – too much alcohol, drugs and sex. 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. But from the moment they share a microphone, Billy and Daisy make moon eyes at each other. 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.īilly is married to Camila (Camila Morrone), a hometown girl who followed him to LA and is raising their daughter. It charts the two paths that led to the band's creation: Daisy Jones' ( Riley Keough, 'The Girlfriend Experience'), a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, and Billy Dunne's (Sam Claflin, 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'), the lead singer of a little band that could from Pittsburgh. 1 singles and stadium tours (more information about the documentary is revealed before the end of the season). Weber ('The Disaster Artist'), 'Daisy' tells the band members' story in 1997 to a documentarian, 20 years after their heyday of No.

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It is fleeting Fleetwood fan fiction, a far cry from capturing the true essence of the ’70s era. (And the real Fleetwood Mac had more drama in just one album cycle than the fictional Daisy Jones & The Six musters in the entire series.) 'Daisy' is the most disappointing of TV endeavors: Glossy, star-studded and completely hollow.Ĭreated by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Instead, what you'll be seeing a lot of in the next month is a messy combination of all of the above in Amazon Prime's new limited series 'Daisy Jones & the Six,' based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2019 novel.Ī fake documentary about a fake classic rock group that seems an awful lot like the band behind 'Rumours,' 'Daisy' (streaming Fridays in March, ★★ out of four) is all sex, drugs and style with none of the heart and substance of rock ’n’ roll.

What do you see? Cameron Crowe's 2000 film 'Almost Famous'? The real history of Fleetwood Mac? A VH1 'Behind the Music' documentary? 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. Watch Video: Author gives thumbs up to 'Daisy Jones' TV series

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