Daisy Jones and The Six
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Some people just cant handle their fame.
The Sixs early taste of it turns everyone giddy except Billy.
Even just a little bit of fame makes Billy (more) miserable.
The fourth episode opens withDaisy Jones & the Sixs attempt at re-creating thatwhirlwind moment fromThat Thing You Do!
the one with Liv Tyler running down Main Street screeching gleefully as the Wonders make their radio debut.
Well, if you hated it so much, Billy, you shouldnt have made it sound so catchy.
Ive been humming the song formerly known as Honeycomb since I first heard it last week.
But even Billy cant hate his first royalty check.
Can you seriously believe this guy and the limitless depths of his ego?
The songs radio play is just the start serious momentum is growing around the Six.
They have one hit, and suddenly theyre sharing a bill with Steve Miller and Cheech & Chong.
Billy, of course, cant enjoy paradise either.
So synonymous with the band is she that the Six look confusingly like five without her up there.
She claims a mic early, then refuses to leave it once theyve played the hell out of Honeycomb.
Can you seriously believe this woman and the infinite abyss of her ego?
Standing cheek to cheek in the hot, dusty crater, fighting to be heard on the same mic.
And they look great together young and beautiful, hungry and electric.
The crowd is frothing.
The band is ecstatic.
And Billy is … peeved.
Theyre both assholes, really.
He shouldnt hog credit for Honeycomb; she shouldnt insult every other song in the Sixs catalogue.
Depressingly, Simones worst fears about the music business come true this week.
That sleazy producer whose lap she didnt linger on in episode three?
Hes stolen her voice.
On TV, she and Daisy watch three women lip-sync to a recording that Simone made.
Daisy blames the sleazebag, which is 100 percent correct, but Simone half-heartedly blames herself.
It feels like a watershed moment for her character.
Shes finally taking a step toward earning the disco pioneer chyron she gets in the documentary.
It also leaves Daisy all alone in Hollywood.
It takes approximately 24 unchaperoned hours for Daisy to land in serious trouble.
Shes arrested for breaking into her parents house, which, heartbreakingly, doesnt belong to her parents anymore.
Whats most interesting, though, is that two decades later, she denies it ever happened.
Some truths hit too close to the bone; some hurts even time cant heal.
Her parents cared so little for Daisy that they werent concerned she couldnt find them.
Frankly, she seems poised to spiral out of control until Camilla successfully plays matchmaker.
As the party rages into the night, a blackout cuts the music and somehow wakes up baby Julia.
Daisys the first to hear her.
Meanwhile, Karen sits at the piano to fill the silence.
A candlelit vibe is building before she even starts singing Ooh La La, which apparently came in No.
I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger.
Could an idea be any clearer and sadder and more universal?
Billy and Daisy spontaneously share the verses, and the whole party takes the chorus.
Its the end of Billys resistance.
