Daisy Jones and The Six
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Billy is the model rock star.
Daisy is the degenerate.
Daisy and Billy even pull into the studio parking lot looking like flip sides of the same coin.
Billy arrives early, with enough time to smoke a contemplative cig.
But the band has, too.
In the doc footage, Billy remembers himself as being nice that day, which seems accurate to me.
Its your first day on a new job, sweetie.
Why not sit back and collect a few weeks pay for free before anyone realizes you work there?
Alas, I guess its more Stevie Nicks to blow down the door and insult all Billys love songs.
And she has a good point that the new album needs a point of view.
But Daisys still a paradox.
In truth, I doubt Daisy and Billy are different at all.
Essentially, schools out.
The rest of the band scatters.
Caroline, for her part, seems chill.
Shes pre-med at UC Santa Barbara and thinks Graham is sexy.
Unfortunately, seeing Caroline through Karens music snobbery poisons Graham against his sweetheart.
Seeing Graham through Carolines eyes, however, makes Karen horny.
They share a romp-y make-out sesh while Caroline waits in the car, hopefully out of earshot.
They fight even over whether or not its good for the band that theyre fighting all the time.
(Daisy is, unsurprisingly, the one who is pro-strife.)
But she is shrewd.
I still dont know Daisy well enough to be sure about that last move.
Is she trying to make Billy uncomfortable?
Is she trying to entice him?
Or is she just a rock-and-roll baby doing what she wants when she feels like it?
As she warned Warren earlier, Its not my job not to turn you on.
For his part, Billy is trying to make this new reality work.
Daisy doesnt want to sing about Billys boring marriage; Billy doesnt want to sing Daisys overwrought nature metaphors.
Its okay sometimes to just say what you mean, he tells her.
Its a nice line, the kind that, in a better series, would be dripping with subtext.
But here, its just confusing.
Daisys been telling Billy exactly what she thinks of him since the moment she met him.
Eventually, they find some conversational common ground, but its pretty bland stuff.
Its hard to believe this is a dialogue between musical geniuses and not teen-movie drivel.
We dont have to be friends, Daisy offers.
But if were going to write together, we cant be strangers.
Strangers it is, then.
Broken was maybe the wrong word; it doesnt capture what makes them so singular.
Daisy and Billy are people with plenty of excuses to shatter but who have kept on going anyway.
No, Daisy wont call herself broken, but she senses shes flawed like Billy is flawed.
Its a simple idea.
Billy asks Daisy who would want to hear a song like that, but the answer is obviously everybody.
Billy must already know this because Billy owns a radio.
Daisy and Billy laugh; they sing.
Even in the doc footage, the magic of that day feels close by for them both.
The song they write is about why we do things that are bad for us.
Not a groundbreaking idea, but a good one.
The Six record Let Me Down Easy that same night a night of firsts.
The first night Karen and Graham got together.
The night Billy let Eddie revise his own bass part.
Across these past few episodes, Ive noticed something of an emerging trend when it comes to endings.
But these lines dont foreshadow anything intelligible.
But the gesture makes Billy uneasy.
The show sends him directly home and to bed, where he urgently makes love to Camilla.
(I lol-ed to learn one was called something so dopey as Shes the Storm.)
Hes proving it to her?
