Daisy Jones and The Six
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This episode ofDaisy Jones & the Sixcould have gone another hour, and I would have kept watching.
Its structure could have been the backbone of the whole telling.
The documentary footage proved wispy over time interviews were reduced to a series of revealing looks.
The band talks to each other wordlessly, pregnant glare after pregnant glare.
For nine episodes,Daisy Jones & the Sixhas felt like asolid, by-the-numbers adaptation.
And for all the love triangles in the air, no partners have actually changed.
Solid was a letdown.
But Rocknroll Suicide is more ambitious and freer than the episodes that came before it.
It didnt just look like a multi-million dollar Amazon production it was thunderously messy at the same time.
(Its possible the fundamental problem withDaisy Jonesthe series is that it should have beenDaisy Jonesthe movie.)
That timeline is interspersed with scenes from the last show the Six will ever play.
Daisy and Billy wont find a way to be together.
Taken together, the three timelines generated enough tension to make me wish there were more episodes to come.
Sam Claflin and Riley Keough have done as much with Billy and Daisy as I think is humanly possible.
If youd told me that morning this would be our last show, Graham says twenty years later.
I would have laughed.
But what about after, I wonder.
I think I feel worse for Warren than any of the other knuckleheads in this failing band.
Its stupid to chase fame, but at least Warren appreciated the stupid thing they had.
But, much like the episode, Im getting ahead of myself.
Almost as soon as we hear the opening riff of Regret Me, we Tarantino it.
Now Daisy is poised to do her own hard math.
How much more breaking can her heart endure for the sake of the songs?
But Camilas not the only one circling the truth.
Onstage, though, Daisys the Queen of Hearts.
Yes, new levels of chaos have been unlocked by the time everyone makes it to the stadium.
Billys drunk for the first time since the last tour.
Lets be broken together, Billy tells her.
If he cant be happy with Camila, at least he can be deliriously miserable with Daisy.
Daisys not content to be the broken woman her mother sees.
Shes got bigger plans for herself than Billy understands.
Karen and Graham have been slowly fading from love since hotel check-in when Karen confides about the abortion.
But over a series of five-second conversations that span the episode, the problems between them keep shifting.
Its not the abortion; its that theyll never want the same things.
Shed rather the man she loves keep existing than be with the version crumbling at the mic.
And then they finally play Honeycomb.
Well, they sort of play it.
The crowd starts the number off, and Billy cant pull himself together enough to karaoke.
I wish he had, though.
And you know what?
But theres a documentary to finish.
Billy grovels at Camis feet, desperate and committed; Daisy heads to rehab, sad but hopeful.
Only Karen and Warren summon enough denial overnight to even board the tour bus the next morning.
They wanted to be the biggest rock band in America, and they got their dream.
It was a total nightmare.
So heres what they all did next.
When she tells Julia that she loved Graham all along, it feels honest but annoying.
Ive never really been into tales of unselfish, set-them-free kind of love.
Graham went home, fell in love, had kids, and had happiness.
Pittsburgh on three forever.
Eddies still gigging in half-empty bars: My lifes totally fine.
Bernie and Simone opened a nightclub called Haven.
Billy, though, didnt get that second shot at fame.
Julia needed to make this film while her mother was still here to give her the answers she needed.
There were answers Daisy and Billy needed, too, about the future.
Buried inside Julias documentary footage is Camilas blessing.
