#we should've had billy and daisy meet in like... ep 2 max

[mermaidsirennikita]

daisy jones and the six thoughts?

A Lifetime quality adaptation (but not fun) with some pretty egregious miscasting and fake feminism, would not recommend. The music is supremely mediocre and they are very clearly super worried about how problematic Billy is, even though the point of billy is that he's a toxically masculine alpha male with self loathing and a soul. The result being that he comes off as a sad sack versus the perfectionist controlling hot guy with demons to spare and a complex relationship with women. Daisy is very annoying and again , woefully miscast (no shade to Riley, it's not her fault, she's just fundamentally too clean and fresh and Daisy is supposed to be a HARDCORE drug user with charisma and narcissism and talent, and here she's just... not believably any of that).

--Camila is getting the flat jealous nice wife treatment with a side of "this eyeshadow means I'm dying in the future" makeup.

--Graham... that's Graham... okay....

--Karen isn't bad but I don't love the emphasis on Karen and Daisy over Karen and Camila. GIRLS GET IT DONE I GUESS.

--Simone's role needed to be expanded beyond "Daisy's Black friend who prioritizes Daisy all the time" but by God, did we need to see her getting pawed at? I get it, the 70s sucked, it's a constant struggle to be a woman, I am a woman, I see that.

--Similarly, did we need to see Daisy trapped in a hotel room as a teenager when the book made it clear in a much subtler way that she was taken advantage of a teenage groupie? Then the "I'LL NEVER BE PATHETIC AGAIN" line, love that feminist message for real for real.

--Aside from some of Karen and Camila's stuff, the hair and costuming is very... low rent. The entire thing looks cheap--like I said, Lifetime.

--In the same sense, Billy's look is so flat when in the book, much of his contrasting visual with Daisy is THEE THING--she's hyper feminine, he's hypermasculine, she's wearing gauzy see through tops, he's in denim on denim. She's knockoff Stevie, he... can't be a knockoff Lindsey or other Fleetwood Mac guy because they weren't sexy to a 2019 audience, so he's Fleetwood Mac by way of Jim Morrison, which the show is gonna try to evoke later with hair but Sam Claflin is not a stage performer and it shows, and there's like this pseudo-Beatles meets Mick Jagger thing in the early performances and like yes it's before the band is fully settled but it's still PAINFUL.

I'm bored. When they had her come out and saaaay the "I'm the somebody quote" to a man while like on the brink of tears (the worst line from the book, I'm gonna be real) I...died.