Everybody was noticing, but no one was thinking too hard about lonely Camila raising Billy’s baby by herself while he’s outside on the phone with Daisy all hours of the night. No one in the band was saying anything, but everyone noticed the shift. If they didn’t seem so much like lovers, with their long, knowing stares and easy shorthand, you could mistake Billy and Daisy for rivals. Out with the boring wife shit, in with the suffering. They’re trading lyrics, matching her melodies to his guitar riffs, encouraging each other to dig into the ugly morass of their pain. The combative creative partnership between Billy and Daisy was barreling toward a destructive will-they, won’t-they, and the show’s big answer - way too swiftly delivered - was “Well, kinda - don’t ask.”ĭaisy and Billy are writing new songs as fast as the band can lay them down when the episode opens. Oh man, the secrets! But the fire gets extinguished almost as soon as it starts burning. It’s got charm, sex, and amusing repartee. And episode six, “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” has all the ingredients of great TV. We were making thrilling music on the precipice the lightning was in the bottle.

Daisy and Billy were on the same team, but that team felt like a threat to Billy and the sturdy family life we’ve watched him take so many jogs to rebuild. I guess art imitates art sometimes.īy the end of episode five, though, I nearly thought we had it.

I love this exact moment in L.A., from Eve Babitz to the Z-Boys, but for the love of all that is La La, could Daisy Jones & the Six please stop squandering the dramatic tension the moment any builds? What was it Teddy told Billy about “Honeycomb”? He wrote a good song, not a great one. We’re just past halfway through this series, and it’s killing me how much I want it to be great. Photo: Vulture Photo:Lacey Terrell/Prime Video

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