Daisy Jones and The Six
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Episodes ofDaisy Jones & the Sixtake two different cadences: nice and easy and way too fast.
The faster the calendar pages fall off, the less real these people seem.
First, they have to happen at a regular pace of days.
Luckily, they dont waste too much time on proxy wars.
Neither of them is as convincing at burying their feelings as they think they are.
Daisy told another persons darkest secrets to a magazine because, in that moment, her feelings were hurt.
What Billy did was damage control.
Poor Rod, the gone-but-not-forgotten tour manager played by Timothy Olyphants wig.
Their hotel suites are on separate floors.
Despite the month apart and their incessant grievances, Daisy and Billy still make sense together onstage.
But when the concert ends, they return to their respective corners.
For Billy, its jogging and watching reruns on his lonely sober tour bus for one.
Rock and roll is a two-hour set that ends with the encore.
For Daisy, though, its a lifestyle.
And so the tour rolls on.
But across the episode, theres hardly any threat the animosity is real.
If anything, until now, the series has made a clear distinction between love and sex.
Eddie and Camila had sex without love, and Billy and Daisy have had love without sex.
Only occasionally do we get fleeting glimpses of the lives of the rest of the characters.
The label is showering Teddy with gifts in the hopes hell stay on staff, but who cares?
Camilas booked a professional photography job, but whatever.
Eddies still pining for Camila, but fat chance.
Despite bunking on the same tour bus, Karen and Graham manage to keep their relationship a secret.
Actor Will Harrison can take you on his characters journey quickly and wordlessly.
As uncomfortable as this tour is, it feels like it could persist in this delicate balance forever.
The peace is not perfect, but its steady.
The partying is not controlled, nor is it lethal.
That is until Daisy receives a letter addressed to Margaret.
After that, she stops drinking to have fun and starts drinking to die.
She cant make it through a set without pausing to snort a line or two or more.
Shes messing up lyrics at night and sleeping through sound check in the afternoon.
It gets so bad that Billy confronts Nicky about getting Daisy to slow down.
Hes worried about her, yes, but hes worried about the health of his tour too.
Billy has been at this crossroads before.
She really does sound like shit.
Billy quits the stage, and his concern for her evaporates.
Now it really is a power struggle on both sides.
(I wonder what the actors really snort on set.)
Shes alive, of course, but shes also deadly.
