Despite myself, I’ve enjoyed watching Daisy Jones and the Six, Amazon Prime’s ten-part rock story based on a successful novel. There were some engaging performances, the music was much better than I was expecting and there was even a surprise or two at the end I wasn’t expecting. Ideal ‘lunch break’ TV when I’ve been working at home.
That said, it does contain an almighty number of ‘rock story’ tropes that, real story or not, it appears all films/series of this nature seem to have to include by law. Walk the Line, Rocket Man, That Thing You Do, Still Crazy – they’ve got most of these cliches. Also spoofed very well in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
So, I invite you to add to my bingo card of rock on screen. A seemingly mandatory tick list that would have you in rehab, were it a drinking game and not a bit of fun. What would you add to these? SPOILER ALERT for people who haven’t seen DJATS but, come on, not much of a spoiler – this is my argument entirely.
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