Note: The following contains spoilers for the “Daisy Jones and the Six” finale.
“Daisy Jones and the Six” has taken its final bow within the show and on the small screen.
The Prime Video limited series, adapted from the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, follows the rise and fall of the titular rock and roll band – directed and rounded out by singers Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) by guitarist Graham Dunn (Will Harrison), drummer Warren Rojas (Sebastian Chacon), bassist Eddie Roundtree (Joshua Whitehouse) and keyboardist Karen Sirko (Suki Waterhouse). The dynamics of the relationship evolve and change over the course of the success of their album “Aurora,” and it all barrels down to a finale in which the band breaks up for good.
“A lot of the best things in life don’t last, and that doesn’t mean they don’t matter,” executive producer Will Graham told TheWrap in an interview. “Everyone comes into this episode with a big choice. They’re understood or starting to understand a little better about themselves, but they’re getting to know each other on a really deep level.
The final two episodes see the fictional rock band in disarray almost as quickly as it comes together. It wasn’t exactly planned that their October 4, 1977 show at Chicago’s Soldier Field would be their last, but there were several signs that things were coming undone.
Daisy and Billy’s pushy chemistry rubs off on Billy when Camilla reveals that he loves Daisy. When Camilla says she’s done with Billy, he goes into his old demons of addiction, reaching Daisy’s level of drugs and alcohol for the final show. Billy kisses Daisy backstage, and she notices that he has been drinking, but he tries to convince her that they can be together now that they are both “broken”.
“It’s one of the things that pushed her to that moment when she realized she didn’t want to break up,” Lauren Neustadter, executive producer and president of film and TV at Hello Sunshine, told TheWrap. “She’s carried this burden of not being loved the way she deserved to be loved, even going back to her most formative relationship with her mother, clearly that childhood takes so much pain for K’s wounds, and it’s undeserved. A big part of her character development is really learning to love and respect herself and earn the respect that she deserves and that’s all to which he is entitled.
One of those things is to be a mother, which Camilla saw Daisy for even when Daisy didn’t believe in herself. Riley Neustadter, daughter of Lauren and showrunner Scott Neustadter, played Daisy’s ballerina daughter in the finale, and their son Michael appeared as Graham’s son.
“Daisy loves Billy, but inside [those] In moments at the concert, she can see not only the version that she is supposed to be with him this time, but also the version of who she is going to become. If she’s with him, and it’s not the version of her that she’s in love with,” Graham told TheWrap. “I think part of what that’s saying is, these people are right for each other and they love each other. may be true at a different moment, but Why Who you come to is as important as who you come to.
Graham applied this concept to Karen and Graham’s relationship and how it ended. Graham moves on from Karen when they have a moment of their own offstage in which he promises to devote himself to her, even though she has made it clear that she does not want children and wants to pursue a career as a musician. I want to live on the street.
“Graham agrees to put his feelings and desires aside in order to be with Karen, but Karen sees or thinks she sees what he’s going to do to her and not live with that version of Graham. Want someone who has given up those things,” Graham said.
Graham credits Karen’s brutal honesty with helping her move on from someone who didn’t love her the way she loved him, but in one of the final doc shots she admits that she Wasn’t completely honest.
“What you can say is that Karen made a huge sacrifice for Graham. Karen could have had everything, she could have found the love of her life, she could have had a music career, she could have had it all.” Could have been something that you see in the finale, and they’re standing there in the wings and they’re having this conversation and he’s saying, ‘I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll do anything for you, you’re my life. Be in love with. And when she lets him go, it’s the most generous thing she could ever do,” Neustadter said. “She was mature enough to really look at it and look at her life and all of the things that she dreams about from such a mature perspective, and I think it was such an incredibly generous and selfless thing that she gave her Let him go.”
Agreeing to tell their personal stories between the years to look at the feelings and substance abuse that took place within the band, the now-old band members reflect on the breakup of the band with the wisdom that Graham wrote in a lyric song. expressed in
Graham said, “Everybody has a big choice that’s a choice they need to make for themselves, but it’s also made out of love for the other people in the band.” “There’s a beautiful line in the song ‘You’re Gone’ that Blake Mills wrote for the show, ‘Every story has an end and it’s not our job to stop.’ I think that resonates a lot in this episode.”
All 10 episodes of “Daisy Jones and the Six” are now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
