Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Later, Daisy is professionally trapped singing pop songs she did not write while under contract with boyfriend-manager Hank Allen, who is entirely cut out from the show. The Prime Video series instead shows Daisy growing up in an upper middle class Hollywood Hills household, with her narcissistic mother being a more traditional suburban housewife albeit still a negligent parent.ĭaisy also is assaulted in the Prime Video series as a teenager, which inspires her to put her trauma on the page in the form of songwriting.

Reid’s novel had Daisy’s roots already in the hippie ’70s scene, with her absentee parents being a painter and a famous model. Turns out, in the TV adaptation, Daisy is a bit less of a wild child. Daisy’s Backstory Riley Keough as Daisy Jones in “Daisy Jones and the Six” Prime Video

Keep scrolling to see how Prime Video’s “Daisy Jones and the Six” compares to Reid’s original novel with each weekly installment. The 10-episode series is set to conclude March 24. “Daisy Jones and the Six” debuted March 3 on the streamer with three episodes helmed by James Ponsoldt. It just was so ready to be the best television show ever.” “And it felt like this is a time period that people are obsessed with but we haven’t seen something in this time period in so long. “Taylor Jenkins Reid wrote the most amazing novel and it read like a movie or a television show, like just episodic,” Witherspoon told Entertainment Tonight. Riley Keough Didn’t Want ‘Daisy Jones’ Drug Addiction to Seem ‘Glamorous’ Due to Family History Weber additionally executive produce, with Will Graham (“A League of Their Own,” “Mozart in the Jungle”) serving as showrunner. Author Reid produces, as well as Hello Sunshine’s Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter. The novel was devised as an oral history of the fictional band that only released one album but whose meteoric rise was only trumped by their mysterious disbandment. As the series logline puts it: Their music made them famous, their breakup made them legends. Camila Morrone stars as Billy’s wife Camila, with Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse, and Sebastian Chacon playing the rest of the rock group. Prime Video’s “ Daisy Jones and the Six” boasts catchy songs, an all-star cast, and killer ’70s costumes, but the series has made quite a few changes to its source material.īased on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel of the same name, “Daisy Jones and the Six” stars Riley Keough as the titular Stevie Nicks-inspired rocker whose fiery passion lodges unexpected tension in rock band The Six, led by charismatic frontman Billy Dunne ( Sam Claflin).

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid