A snooze.
It’s not like the book said anything new or amazing but it did at least try. Unfortunately, the show took out everything even remotely interesting, flattened the characters into cliches and slapped on a hazy filter as if that sells the 70s thing. (Spoiler: it doesn’t). Things are too clean cut, dull and predictable. Not a hint of grit or tension. Also the songs? LMAOOOOO. Fleetwood Mac if they sucked. Or made lullabies for colicky children. Giving Disney Originals and I’m dead serious. They’ve essentially produced an Amazon sponsored Lifetime Original. Just extremely mediocre and underwhelming.
Cute outfits though!
A rant: The thing about Billy and Daisy back when they were in the band is that they had the chemistry and reasons to love each other, but it was also clear they would've destroyed one another at that point in time and they both knew it. They weren't right for each other, period. There's none of that here so far, 6 episodes in.
IMO, they have failed to establish (1) how much Camila was also a soulmate for him and how the love he had for her matches or even surpasses the love he has for Daisy, (2) how messy, dangerous, and out of control Daisy is supposed to be, (3) how much of a struggle Billy's sobriety was to him, and so many other things that made the story in the book more compelling and nuanced.
I don't mind when adaptations do their own thing, but I do mind when, instead of adding to it, they make it feel simpler in a bad way. I still think the show is enjoyable, but it's missing so much of what made the story in the book better.
Good but not great. Beautifully shot and great performances but something is missing. There needed to be more nuance and development of the main relationship and I needed to care more about the band itself or give it less screen time. The pacing is too slow and I just wasn't always motivated to keep watching. Would I watch it again? Meh. I wouldn't mind it as it's pretty, music is okay, and Keough is charming as hell. But also, meh.
I really enjoyed the book (the audiobook was stellar). But man, this show. My heart is aching now that it’s over. I love the soundtrack. Sam and Riley - wow. I absolutely loved this entire journey and once I stop crying I’ll likely rewatch
So, basically it ends like How I Met Your Mother? Seriously?
ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS EVER MADE.
Haven't read the book yet... but after watching the series I sure as hell will now!
As a fan of the book, I thought the casting was excellent. The performances were generally good.
Something is missing from the energy found in the book. Part of it was probably to do with the weekly release schedule interrupted the momentum in the second half of the season.
Only two of the songs stood out for me which is a little bit of a letdown considering that this is a musical drama.
I've been crying uncontrollably for an hour! Love the book, love the show!
Warren is by far the best thing about this show
I wasn’t going to watch this initially, but seeing people rate it highly got me curious. I had read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and I was expecting something like that or other musical biopics. This show is not that. While it does explore the standard self-destruction you see from these stories, it’s also a lot about healing. I found the Billy Dunne’s struggle compelling, and I was glad to see the way some other characters were given due focus. The cinematography is also on point, with the concert scenes feeling visceral.
Liked the cast and the settings and overall story but didn't feel all that invested in the band. The characters just kind of flowed along with the story. In the end though I did enjoy it and liked the ending.
Overall I ended up enjoying this, I think the casting choices were absolutely amazing and I liked how they went with a somewhat documentary style for the show. I wasn't the greatest lover of the book but I feel like this story works more for me in an on screen format and I was able to take in the story better. This is a really decent TV show, give it a watch!
I want to start Fleetwood Mac with Suki's eyebrows and gonna have a bunch of cute little eyebrows with her.
They talk about rock'n'roll and being rockstars, while playing country/pop.
LOVED! Now I just want more! I think I would have liked them to have casted a younger Billy, but that’s my only critique. The love and passion and angst and costumes and scenery and MUSIC. It was messy and uncomfortable, but they gave us a nice open ending. So hopefully, we’ll see a second season?!? Either way, SO good!!
Oh man, that's a wrap on Daisy Jones. This is begging for reflection.
I watch almost everything sped up, but not this. I consider it like reading quickly for the information. I'm rarely feeling myself connected or drawn in by the characters. I'm not on some noble quest to only find and vibe with "the best" or most "deep" and "novel," which I think makes my satisfaction with a series like this all the more enjoyable. This is a very simple story, simply followed and told, and the complexity of the issues it speaks to are handled simply. Simply, but not cheaply. If you watch as much TV as I do, you'll see hundreds of alcoholics, needlessly-complicated love stories, and a kind of matter-of-factism that carries everything forward often against the will of any sense or decency. The rise-to-fame rock-n-roll atmosphere here is, incidentally, a perfect home to couch every room you might walk through.
Simple characters means you don't have to get gritty and gross about substance abuse, near-death experiences, childhood trauma, abortion nor swing for the actual Billboard charts in your song-writing. I liked the music, don't get me wrong, and I'm perfectly happy to accept this being a band created as an homage to Fleetwood Mac, if that's what it was. If you can stop yourself from wishing for something more complicated, you get to ride along like Camilla. You get snapshots, brief insights about things to ponder for maybe the length of a song.
I called this "great" partly because it's comfortably self-contained, and partly because, in my heart of hearts, I'm a romantic. I love when I'm made to dream and believe. I want to be a rockstar, at least, my naive ideal of one, and while this screams the same kind of vibe of an Almost Famous, what comes to mind is Halt and Catch Fire. There's countless stories of people bouncing off one another with the drama-of-the-week or their deep dark secret. There's not so many where you can watch them grow. There's not so many that make you root for redemption because you've watched them work and struggle and come up with every creative "fix" that isn't.
I appreciate that the characters who weren't really highlighted served to ground the flaming-out stardom of the leads. The drummer's having a good time and speaking plainly as to how and why. The father-figure doesn't get the opportunity to get overbearing or awkwardly wedged in, showing up mostly in times of desperation or reflection. The best-friend isn't given a pointless side-quest that feels like a useless excuse to treat being gay in a ham-fisted way, but compliments and contrasts with what it means to gain perspective and own one's identity. Her looking at Daisy on her wedding day was absolutely packed with emotion and allowed to resolve perfectly.
Every fight scene asks the same kind of questions. What do you really want? To create for its own sake? To be famous? To be loved? To be seen? To be able to see what's been staring at you the whole time? What could be incredibly mellow-dramatic stares into the "we get it" abyss from Billy manage to carry the weight of those questions. You can feel his inability to answer them. Not just with him, but each time one of them gets what they want, it's not quite right. It's wrought with catastrophic potential, but eventually genuine choices start to get made. Life is no longer just happening to them as they start dictating their direction. The band was just what everyone saw, a simple representation, not precisely a lie, at least not in a malicious way, and no one denies the music, but it was not what they needed.
I see people locked in this infinite battle of what they really want or need all the time. None are dreaming so big, and often enough decisions in the right direction dare them to implode. What do you need to appreciate when the fans, money, family, or general beauty all around you isn't doing it? What's the shape of your desire? Do you have to crash in order to find clarity in the flames? To feel like you've taken control? If you're plugged into a simple rockstar fairytale, you're in for a ride.
This series gets sad, but it doesn't despair. It doesn't really try for laughs as it's not hinting at some underlying joy. It doesn't have the patina of a superficial soap opera. It's not begrudging, hating itself, tongue-in-cheek or painfully self-aware. It's a neatly packaged fantasy, palming tropes, but not carelessly slinging them around and hitting you in the face. I'm thankful it's given me an opportunity to slow down, enjoy the music, and reflect. It's exactly what I want from a show.
[Prime Video] When it seemed that all the topics about toxic relationships between musicians had already been included, and the swing of success and failure, it appears the singer's boyfriend, intoxicating her with delusions of grandeur and narcotic substances. A story that cannot avoid the tendency to cheesy romanticism with a soundtrack of insufferable ballads that reflect little of the spirit of the time.
Book > TV Series......
At least is okay
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“i think it’s easy to confuse a soulmate with a mirror.” (e.7)