“The styling was particularly gorgeous and entirely to blame for me spending most of my paycheck at Free People the month it came out”

Having a fictional band top your Spotify most listened should be embarrassing, but as is the case with this series, I am far from embarrassed and still as obsessed as I was when it first came out. Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book (which I also loved) the series is slick, fun and even if Vulture likened watching it to buying a Fleetwood Mac T-shirt from Urban Outfitters, I loved it.

Chronicling the rise and fall of a doomed 1970s rock band and the explosive relationship between the two lead singers, Daisy Jones and the Six is an unashamed Fleetwood Mac story, but it had so much else to give in the plots of the side characters, particularly in deviating from the book by making the character of Simone a lesbian and delving into the disco world of the 70’s.

The styling was particularly gorgeous and entirely to blame for me spending most of my paycheck at Free People the month it came out.

Also not only were the original songs good enough to threaten Lana del Rey and Taylor Swift on my Spotify listens, the needle drops throughout the series were also brilliant – Gold Dust Woman as Daisy wakes up from her overdose was an inspired choice, and the Patti Smith opening credits were never skipped.

My other special mentions of the year: The Bear S2 (Disney+) and Such Brave Girls (BBC3).

  • Alice Redman is head of content, Broadcast Intelligence

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