Daisy Jones and the Six

[Chikapu]

Is anyone watching? I'm finding it increasingly boring and Sam Claflin is woefully miscast, he's far too old and looks nothing like a rock star.

It's fluff. She writes beach reads and escapism. It's entertaining enough. I like playing the 'which bit is based on a real person/ event' game. They've done, or are doing, the 7 husbands of Evelyn thingy as well.

Same here! I'm enjoying it.

I was hoping Evelyn Hugo would be turned into a series.

I don’t even like Fleetwood Mac but this could have been really good. Some of the songs are fine but - it just feels very creaky and underpowered.

I just watched episode 4 and we had the quietest band party in LA history.

They should have chosen actors who could already play/sing - they just look unconfident and unconvincing. Riley Keogh is fine but the others are not working for me.

I’m enjoying it.

Agree casting is way off. Sam Claflin is far too old and there's no chemistry between any of the characters. Also Daisy is supposed to be absolutely stunning. Keough is obviously very pretty but she doesn't fit the image in the book.
But my goodness, the clothes!! Love the 70s California Boho setting of the whole thing.

Daisy is more annoying then I remember her in the book. I cant stop thinking about her mum in real life and I really hope somehow she has stability and good people around her. I think shes gorgeous a nepo babe in the true sense of the word 😃shes playing the part very well.

i agree though, there are plenty of actors that are musical as well. They just don't seem very rock n roll to me.

fun fact Camilla is Al Pacinos step daughter or was I dunno if they are still together. Infact its hard to see who is the mother and who is the daughter. Im ignoring the Leonardo thing. www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/30/all-in-the-family-leonardo-dicaprio-and-al-pacinos-21-year-old-stepdaughter-together-in-st-tropez/

All of the actors are about ten years too old for their parts.

Daisy is woefully miscast and rather plain- in the book she was dynamite.

Billy looks like a tired old man and his interactions with daisy are so clunky. I cringed. There was no fire. No pizazz.

I loved the book- it was a fun romp and really captured the essence of that era for me. The tv adaptation was weak sauce.

Daisy should have been played by someone younger and much more stop you in your tracks beautiful.

this portrayal of her is so…tame. Everything is tame and clunky and NOT COOL

I think the actress who plays Daisy is absolutely stunning, I loved her in The Girlfriend Experience . You can really see Elvis in her face.

Agree with those saying Daisy is miscast. She's pretty but more girl next door kind of pretty, not look twice at her pretty. I don't know why but when I read the book I imagined Daisy as a sort of beautiful ethereal Marianne Faithfull or Kate Hudson in Almost Famous. I actually think the actress playing Karen has the sultry looks Daisy should have.

Yes, I think the Karen one is more like the description in the book.

But then, I think part of having an absolutely stunning character in a novel is that you almost can't really picture them; no one in real life will live up to that.

Can't see much of Elvis in her, apart from the chin (from a fellow family-chin inheritor).

Older Daisy is def channelling Stevie Nicks from bbc 4 documentaries.

Not read the book so I didn’t know she was supposed to be stunning.

Not sure how realistic that is - Keogh very much looks like she could be a 70s singer songwriter - Stevie Nicks was attractive but not conventionally beautiful, ditto Christine McVie, Janis Joplin, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Joan Baez etc.

Nicks didn’t need to be model beautiful to be one of the most famous female singers of all time.

I find Keogh the most convincing of all them - the problem is the rest.

Currently on episode 5 and I keep FFWing.

Not read the book so I didn’t know she was supposed to be stunning.

I have and I don’t remember it containing any physical descriptions at all.

I just don’t see Riley Keith as daisy- her face/look is so ordinary and it’s like a colour by numbers identikit 70s wardrobe.

i guess because the book was loosely based on Fleetwood Mac, and young Stevie nicks was so compelling.

I like it. It’s flawed but entertaining. Developed quite the soft spot for Graham.

Yes, it's getting the charisma across on the page. It's the indefinable thing. Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips has it. Little man, but he's mesmerising on stage.

These are my 70s couple who were never actually a couple, although Harris says she lived him. Boulder to Birmingham is one of the saddest love songs ever (written after his death).

A glacial pace doesn't generally trouble me. I prefer detailed story development to high-impact, hard-hitting, shorter-duration Hollywood. But there's nigh on 5 hours' worth of footage before Daisy even sings with the six.

If the story is, as supposed, loosely based on Stevie and Lindsey, it doesn't bear even a tenuous connection with their lives or their music.

The earlier episodes have more in common with Oliver Stone's 'The Doors', and the fictional band have more in common with The Doors than the Mac - in terms of their story if not their music.

Anyone attempting to live up to Nicks's vocals or songwriting is going to fall flat by comparison. No matter who they are.

A proper Mac documentary would have had both a more scintillating storyline and better music. With four band members still alive and a huge schism between them, though, it would likely have been problematic.

Riley Keough is the spitting image of her mother.

The wardrobe is fantastic.

I've watched #1-3 and will stick it out. It's fun viewing and is OK, but it isn't any better than OK.

A proper Mac documentary would have had both a more scintillating storyline and better music.

I cba to sit through that personally. FM were too poppy for me and I never gave a fuck what was going on between Lindsey & Stevie. I found him super irritating - reminded me of Garfunkel. He was a good guitar player though.

It’s only very loosely based on FM - Lindsey and Stevie already had an album together when they joined FM and there’s no Peter Green figure.

The music is rubbish. I cant believe on my Glasto forum theres a rumour they will be playing. I hope not its bad enough that Johnny Depp will probably turn up. I mean, playing along side some of the best musicians in the world? I dont think so. Its obvious none of them have a passion for being in a band, they arent natural. Im on episode seven though so it cant be all bad 😃

I know it's minor but it really annoyed me in the episode I just watched how Daisy's housemate arrived in NYC on a greyhound and it just pulled up in a random city street and let her off as if she was getting off a school bus! It would have arrived to a bus station!

I think Suki Waterhouse has made music in the past actually.

aww like I said above, it’s flawed but I am finding it very enjoyable.

The book isn't actually based on Fleetwood Mac, the author was just inspired by them and similar bands of the 70s.

Yes- it is in an inspiration do FM , but the author as as journalist wrote about them a lot so there are definite overlaps

'Bad News' - who predated 'Spinal Tap' if only briefly - were booed off the stage at Castle Donington. Then again, they weren't even pretending to take themselves seriously. (They really were shit, though).

For me, the one successful band formed of actors who portrayed the same band in a movie have been the Broken Circle Bluegrass Band, who were in the overwhelmingly emotional but brilliant Belgian film 'The Broken Circle Breakdown'. They fell head over heels in love with the music - the female lead Veerle Baetens was particularly brilliant - and have played together in the bluegrass band ever since. I thought I hated country music as a genre until I heard this stuff. Wonderful!

As to the Mac comparisons, any contemporary west coast band would have done as well. Jefferson Airplane, the Doors, Janis, etc; the comparisons are fairly tenuous. I still think early blues Mac were fantastic - but Stevie was/is a very charismatic figure, and has a voice like no one else on earth.