New Orleans-filmed ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ series ready to soak viewers in desert poetry, sexy haze, and Timothy Olyphant’s mustache

The recipe calls for a pinch of Almost Famous, a healthy pound of future artsy Pinterest quotes, and a cast that has been properly costumed to look like they might snort backstage coke off an amp case at any moment. 

The limited series adaptation of Taylor Jenkin Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six will debut on Prime Video on March 3rd with an order of ten episodes. The series is produced by Reid as well as Amazon Studios, Circle of Confusion, and Reese Witherspoon through her Hello Sunshine imprint. It’s an ensemble cast, as you might expect from a band that spends its days in a van: Riley Keough is Daisy and the surrounding glamour and addiction folklore are blended by the charisma of Sam Claflin, Sebastian Chacon, Josh Whitehouse, Nabiye Be, and Timothy Olyphant in a role he was destined to play as the mussy-haired rock band manager.  

Here are a few highlights leading up to a series sure to be in the running for an “Outstanding Music Composition” Emmy by the end of 2023.

‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ was filmed in both New Orleans and Baton Rouge

The storytelling delivery of Daisy Jones and the Six is in the style of an oral transcript presented as a musical documentary. So, while much of an episode will show the stationary characters recounting their experience, it’s interspersed with flashbacks of Daisy and her bandmates as they fight, screw, swallow, snort, and create magical sparks of 70s rock chemistry. 

This rock-god drama will be bolstered by the cinematography of Checco Varese, who previously helped anchor Dopesick with a washed-out, bleak veneer. The locations he had to work with included the Paramount Studios stage in Hollywood, but the production also traveled to multiple locations in Louisiana to finish the shoot. 

The series was reported by Collider as wrapping in New Orleans in May of 2022, and the Baton Rouge Film Commission announced on their Instagram in January of ‘23 that Daisy Jones and the Six had filmed scenes in Port Allen and downtown Baton Rouge.

Daisy Jones and the Six has the vibe of a 19-year-old’s dramatic wet dream

Much of the dramatic impact of the Daisy Jones and the Six novel is derived from its themes of addiction, carefree love and lust, the wonder of the road, feminist empowerment, and hazy chaos, all simmered into a party-drenched goulash with chunks of sentimental poetic bravado. I’ll give you a few examples from the novel:

“You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”

 

“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”

 

“Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.” 

The third quote especially – just to give you an idea of the vibe – this series feels tailormade for a Young Adult crowd that eats up rock n’ roll nostalgia with poetic musings, which makes perfect sense as Daisy is living this life as a teenage/twenty-something rock star. Throw in the affairs, the costumes, the road life – you’ve got all the chemistry for ten episodes of sweaty glittery coming-of-age drama.

Daisy Jones and the Six looks like a visual and musical treat

The resumes behind the craftsmanship of the series are impressive. The Art Direction was led by Kirby Feagan (Art Director of Euphoria), Morgan Lindsey Price (Licorice Pizza), and Monica Alberte (Set Decorator on The Great). The talent, obvious by some of the visually unique productions mentioned here, had to have an explicit ability to pinpoint the vibe of “70s rock glamour and chaos”. 

Daisy’s fictional band was notably influenced by Fleetwood Mac, and music for the series is provided by Phoebe Bridgers, Marcus Mumford, and Jackson Browne, to name a few. The album Aurora will release the same day as the series premieres on March 3rd.   

Then you’ve got the pure aura of rock hedonism, captured entirely within the geographic terrain of Timothy Olyphant’s band manager mustache:

That’s really all you need to see to watch the show. But, if you need to be sated a little more visually, watch the teaser trailer released by Prime Video last week:

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