Television series

Daisy Jones & the Six

Name: Daisy Jones & the Six
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: 2023
Cast: Riley Keough, Camila Morrone, Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison

A 1970s rock band implodes at its peak in this serialized mystery told through flashbacks and present-day interviews. It's *Almost Famous* crossed with a whodunit: gorgeous, melancholy, and built entirely on the question of why they really fell apart. You watch to solve the puzzle, and for the music. For anyone who loves the aesthetics of the seventies and bands that hurt each other.

TVMaze rating

3.1

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you love stories about bands where the music and the interpersonal chemistry are inseparable, and you don't mind a slow build to watch two volatile people circle each other.

Skip it if you want the music to be a backdrop rather than the point, or you find the retrospective interview framing tiresome, since the drama is filtered through memory.

What it asks of you: Ten episodes of roughly fifty minutes each, unhurried, with long stretches of performance and recollection that reward patience rather than rushing toward a single payoff.

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