Daisy Jones and The Six
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I love rock and roll.
I love Riley Keough.
I love Laurel Canyon.
What was it Teddy told Billy about Honeycomb?
He wrote a good song, not a great one.
I guess art imitates art sometimes.
By the end ofepisode five, though, I nearly thought we had it.
We were making thrilling music on the precipice; the lightning was in the bottle.
And episode six, Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, has all the ingredients of great TV.
Its got charm, sex, and amusing repartee.
Its got make-outs and moonlight.
Oh man, the secrets!
But the fire gets extinguished almost as soon as it starts burning.
Out with the boring wife shit, in with the suffering.
Its intimate but also grueling.
No one in the band was saying anything, but everyone noticed the shift.
Camila is family, but the Six is ruthlessly about the music.
Was that a mistake?
I guess it depends on whether Teddy measures success in album sales or the happiness of his own band.
Because Jonah is blinded by the songs; hes a Six stan with a notebook, really.
If Daisy were real-life, she wouldnt be Daisy anymore.
For Daisy, though, it may be love.
She has no parents, no Simone, and no other home to return to.
I dont know how long Daisy and Billy could have persisted this way with this electricity humming between them.
Eventually, someone would have initiated a kiss, or maybe Camila wouldve put her foot down.
Because of the meddling of Jonah Berg, well never know.
Show me the receipts, Jonah Berg.
In the end, it doesnt really matter how much of what Jonah claimed was true.
But its a race to the bottom round these parts.
He berates her in front of the band.
She storms out of the studio, and he chases her into the L.A. sun.
Is Billy saying he loves her?
Or is this all so shell go back in and sing his song?
Alas, poor Camila.
Shes, like, 25, I think?
Spending her days on her own, waiting for Billy.
Theres no room in the band for her anymore with Daisy on the mic.
That shoot is a disaster in so many ways.
Theyre fighting then because Daisy has revealed herself to be the much bigger dick between them.
It turns out Daisy didnt just party away her feelings with Jonah.
She was telling secrets to theone guy you dont tell secrets to!
Daisy has done some dumb shit before, but Ive never felt so embarrassed for her.
(I also feel embarrassed for Jonah, who looks idiotic in that XXL Lenny Kravitz scarf.
Youre in Malibu, dude.
Its 70 degrees out.)
Somehow, though, it gets worse: The triangle becomes a square … Im pretty sure.
If he ever loves Daisy, shes out Everything else we can handle.
Uhhhh, speak for yourself.
I cannot handle this.
As it happens, theAurorasessions are wrapping up by now.
The band records one last song, a scorcher written by Daisy called Regret Me.
With the album in the bag, the band goes their separate ways.
Warren charters a boat; Eddie hangs around hoping for more Camila scraps.
And Karen and Graham just bask in their increasingly perfect secret romance.
Because of all the characters and all the secrets they share, this is the one worth keeping.
Graham is enlightened enough to understand that.
She didnt fuck her way into the Six; she got into the Six and then started fucking.
This is not the kind of nuance that Jonah Berg is equipped to handle.
Graham, ladies and gentlemen.
Daisy, on the other hand, is as low as weve ever seen her.
The drugs are no longer enough to blot out her hurt.
And while Regret Me is a brutal song, its not nearly as cold as whatRolling Stoneends up publishing.
To convince Jonah to bury the story about his daughter, Billy sells Daisy out.
