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Picture this: A 1970s rock band at the height of its power, with big egos, big romances and big fights brewing beneath the surface of the music.
What do you see? Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film “Almost Famous”? The real history of Fleetwood Mac? A VH1 “Behind the Music” documentary?
Not quite. Instead, what you’ll be seeing a lot of in the next month is a messy combination of all of the above in Amazon Prime’s new limited series “Daisy Jones & the Six,” based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel.
A fake documentary about a fake classic rock group that seems an awful lot like the band behind “Rumours,” “Daisy” (streaming Fridays in March, ★★ out of four) is all sex, drugs and style with none of the heart and substance of rock ’n’ roll.
It is fleeting Fleetwood fan fiction, a far cry from capturing the true essence of the ’70s era. (And the real Fleetwood Mac had more drama in just one album cycle than the fictional Daisy Jones & The Six musters in the entire series.) “Daisy” is the most disappointing of TV endeavors: Glossy, star-studded and completely hollow.
Created by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“The Disaster Artist”), “Daisy” tells the band members’ story in 1997 to a documentarian, 20 years after their heyday of No. 1 singles and stadium tours (more information about the documentary is revealed before the end of the season).
It charts the two paths that led to the band’s creation: Daisy Jones’ (Riley Keough, “The Girlfriend Experience”), a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, and Billy Dunne’s (Sam Claflin, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”), the lead singer of a little band that could from Pittsburgh.
