"Daisy Jones & the Six", the seventies between love and music

"Daisy Jones & the Six", the seventies between love and music

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The story of a fictitious rock band that, at the height of its success, decides to break up without stating the reasons and falls into oblivion. On Amazon Prime Video, a light and enjoyable story with a clear vocation for entertainment

Gaia Montanaro

It started a bit quietly but is gaining its space Daisy Jones & the Six, a mockumentary series in eight episodes available on Amazon Prime Video which tells the story of a fictitious rock band from the 1970s who, at the height of their success, decided to break up without stating the reasons and fell into oblivion. Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's best seller of the same name, the story revolves around two fundamental poles: on the one hand the band (the Six) led by Billy, the charismatic frontman who, as happens to any other amateur musical group, leaves from the provinces with high hopes and the ambition to break through (and as often happens, the band is made up of more or less motivated members in their musical trajectory). On the other is Daisy Jonesa girl from a good family and with a marked talent for musical writing and singing who, eager to get away from an already pre-established petty bourgeois life, tries to invest in her talent (not much supported by her family).

The fates between The Six and Daisy will meet in the third episode, creating an artistic partnership that is not always easy to manage, between rivalries, jealousies and amorous tensions. The narration also has inserts of interviews with the protagonists who, years later, are involved in TV to shed light on the real reasons for their dissolution. And then there's the music - a lot of it, folk rock and composed ad hoc for the series – which decisively contributes to making the atmosphere of the seventies iridescent, together with great classics of the period such as the Rolling Stones. These are the basic ingredients of a light and enjoyable story with a clear vocation for entertainment. The packaging is accurate and the narrative intuition interesting even if, in the general economy, Daisy Jones & the Six it doesn't appear to be a series that will have the strength to be remembered for long. The main protagonists are Sam Claflin (Billy) and Riley Keough (Daisy) – she is definitely more convincing than him – and Camila Morrone in particular stands out as supporting actors, who plays Billy's photographer girlfriend. The series is produced by Hello Sunshine Productions (Reese Witherspoon's production company) and created by Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber.

What is the structure of the series?

The story is divided into eight fifty-minute episodes, each of which is titled with the name of a song track. The structure of the individual episodes oscillates between the chronologically linear story of the past (with some flashbacks) and that of the present where there are interviews with the various members of the band. This jagged trend to one side helps to give rhythm to the series even if, as a whole, the part relating to the story of the historical events of the band turns out to be better functioning than the interviews (good intuition, good grounding of the idea).

What is the music of Daisy Jones & the Six?

Like any self-respecting musical series, too Daisy Jones & the Six has a point of merit in the choice of the soundtrack. This is mainly made up of composed pieces ad hoc, twenty-four original songs that can be found in part on a fake album on Spotify that is named after the band's first record. Then alternate other songs, classics of the seventies including the Rolling Stone and Carole King.

What is the tone of the three-bar series?

“It is not enough to want something for it to happen”.

“What are you doing in a crowd and not on a stage, where are you supposed to be?”.

“I'm not a muse, okay? I am someone".



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