I’m the slippage in the system…
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromDaisy Jones & the Sixepisodes 1-10.
We finally get to see Daisy Jones & the Six as a real band!
‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ novel cover; Riley Keough and Sam Claflin in the Amazon Prime Video series.Ballantine Books; Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
And that dream can finally come true with the new series fromPrime Videoand Hello Sunshine.
EW has rounded them all up here, and we will update as new episodes air.
He provides only a brief statement on his memories of the time.
Riley Keough as Daisy Jones.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
He isn’t drafted, but instead quits the band to pursue his acceptance into college.
Oh, and Eddie is no longer his brother.
“We got rid of Pete immediately,” showrunner Scott Neustadter tells EW.
Camila Morrone as Camila.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
At the end of the day, there was enough heavy stuff in the early episodes."
They end up on his bed and she says “yes even though the answer was no.”
She lies back and stares at the ceiling until he’s done.
Tom Wright (Teddy), Suki Waterhouse (Karen), Josh Whitehouse (Eddie).Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
It’s definitely dubious, particularly because she’s underage.
We then cut to an older Daisy telling a documentarian, “I was a baby.”
But it bumps up to the late 1990s, about 20 years after the band’s implosion.
Riley Keough and Sam Claflin as Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
“We wanted to accelerate the story a little bit.”
That also means the cast didn’t have to undergo excessive prosthetics and make-up to sell the age difference.
But the show works to give Eddie stronger motivations for his jealousy and resentment.
Riley Keough and Sam Claflin on ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
First, he’s forced to play bass when Chuck quits the band.
Astute viewers will note that none of the original songs in the show match the lyrics in the novel.
“When we went to these music people, we were giving them a lot of constraints.
Sam Claflin as Billy, Josh Whitehouse as Eddie, Will Harrison as Graham, Sebastian Chacon as Warren, Suki Waterhouse as Karen.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
You have to write a song from this perspective.
We were giving them a lot of, ‘It has to be about this.’
These songs tell the stories, and they have a narrative function.
Daisy Jones and the Six’s ‘Aurora’.Warner Music
“Because it’s hard enough to sort of write a great song.
Plus, they’re professional songwriters who will come up with something really incredible if you let them.
Taylor was like, ‘You don’t even have my blessing, you have my encouragement.
Nabiyah Be as Simone.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Don’t use any of the lyrics; let them write the songs.'”
Here, that tour is basically non-existent.
When she stays on stage the rest of the show, the world assumes she will join the band.
Riley Keough as Daisy Jones.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Daisy does break into the main house to borrow a swimsuit, but they’re there at his invitation.
In the show,Billy does kiss Daisy in the parking lot at recording studio Sound City.
At the end of the day, their success is so important to her.”
Daisy and Billy wait in the hospital waiting room after Teddy’s heart attack.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
For Camila Morrone, it was also a moment of agency for her character.
“She was on her own trajectory, and it wasn’t all about Billy to her.
That was a beautiful showcase moment for her and a validating moment that her work was worthy.”
Camila Morrone as Camila.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
“There are some quite shocking deleted scenes,” she teases.
“But I was definitely shocked,” she continues.
“At first I was like, ‘This isn’t the right choice for her.
Camila Morrone as Camila with little Julia.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
I don’t like this.
This was a moment in time where she felt so unseen and unloved and threatened.
Ultimately, it was the right choice.”
Suki Waterhouse as Karen and Will Harrison as Graham.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Here, she escapes to a remote island in Greece.
Here, she is given her own storyline as she struggles to move from back-up singer to disco star.
“It makes total sense for the character,” Nabiyah Be, who portrays Simone, says.
“And it makes it more truthful to what the disco era meant for the LGBTQ community.”
But by the time Simone gets there, Daisy is gone, gallivanting around the world with Nicky.
Be says there’s no truth to Daisy’s hurtful supposition.
“Maybe [there was] when they were first meeting,” she surmises.
“But it was a very offensive question in that moment.
She’s so much at service to her friend.”
Here, he is Irish with claims to the landed nobility.
Here, they have a messy break-up that the entire band bears witness to.
They even jump to her defense when Nicky threatens her, willing to physically protect her if need be.
Teddy survives
Teddy Price has a new lease on life!
His heart attack in the novel is deadly, killing him instantly.
Here, he is hospitalized but survives.
He does eventually die in the early 1980s, but at least he gets a bit of a reprieve.
Billy and Camila don’t have twins
The Dunne family is a bit smaller in the series.
In the midst ofAuroraand their massive success, Camila also gives birth to twins.
The band goes home
As part of their touring schedule, the band goes home to Pittsburgh.
Billy, Daisy, Graham, and Camila stay at Billy’s mother’s house.
This entire set-up is not part of the novel.
The tension and love is very clearly there, but they never admit it to each other outright.
Billy, in turn, says he wants that too.
Unbeknownst to them both, Camila overhears all of this.
In the novel, Camila never approaches Billy about it.
But in the series, she angrily confronts him, pushing him to admit he kissed Daisy.
But she doesn’t care about that all she wants to know is if he loves Daisy.
Here, it’s filled with drama.
The two have a fistfight and Eddie taunts him with hints of his fling with Camila.
But she does have one last point of contact with her mother in the show.
That includes sharing the infamous final concert at Soldier Field.
Simone comes out to perform with them, earning a raucous introduction from Daisy.
Then, after snorting some cocaine, he makes her an offer.
“Let’s be broken together,” he says.
Definitely a romantic proposal there, Billy.
He races to the hotel where he finds her packing in their hotel room.
And Daisy does as Camila asks, later saying that Camila saved her life that night.
But the series shook up that reveal a bit, giving it to Billy instead of Daisy.
But here, we get it from Billy, who directly asks his daughter a question.
In the series, though, she’s a bit more of a martyr.
she did love him.
And that’s it.
What happens from there is still open to interpretation.
But at least we know they tried.
