Will There Be A Second Season Of Daisy Jones & The Six?
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There's a Daisy Jones & The Six shaped hole in our hearts. Will it ever be filled?
When it debuted on Prime Video in March 2023, we were quickly enamoured with Daisy Jones & The Six. Centring on Daisy Jones and members of rock band The Six, the core gang of characters tell the history of their tumultuous rise and fall through to-camera confessionals, accompanied by flashbacks and simulated archive footage that encapsulate the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll spirit of the 1970s. As the weather heats up over a year later, with Fleetwood Mac-inspired outfits flooding the streets and their music flowing through our headphones, we can’t help but daydream about Daisy Jones & The Six season 2. So, will our dreams become a reality?
Will There Be A Daisy Jones & The Six Season 2?
Sadly no, there won’t be a second season of Daisy Jones & The Six. This is because the musical show was always intended as a limited series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s standalone novel of the same name, and the runaway success has done nothing to change production’s minds.
That said, shortly after the series premiered on Prime Video in March 2023, showrunner Scott Neustadter told Variety that he thought a second season would be an ‘amazing’ idea. ‘If people are interested in this story and these people, maybe we’ll get an opportunity to do that,’ he said. ‘Leave the door open. Why not? If people enjoy what you’re doing and want more of it, that’s not a bad problem.’
Fellow showrunner Will Graham added: ‘We had the most amazing time making the show. For me, that question [of a second season] goes back to Taylor [Jenkins Reid] and if she has another chapter for these characters in her head. If we got an opportunity to do it, I think, no question, everyone involved in the show would show up with bells on.’
In a red carpet interview with The Hollywood Reporter at the Emmys in January 2024 (where the series had three nominations), Sam Claflin, who plays Billy, spoke to the same tune. ‘We’d all be very happy [if season two happened],’ he said with a smile. ‘We had such a great time shooting the first season that the second season is a must, right? For all of us, for all of the fans… Hopefully. Maybe one day.’
In April 2024, Riley Keogh, who played Daisy, entered the conversation. ‘I would love to [do a second season] but I don’t know if it’s in the cards,’ she told Variety. ‘I haven’t heard anything.’ After Variety published that article, a source reached out to confirm that Daisy Jones & The Six season 2 would not be happening as ‘it was always planned as a limited series’.
Indeed, as Reid hasn’t written a follow-up since Daisy was originally published, it seems she is happy to leave Daisy and Billy where she left them in 2019. Of course, if she ever changes her mind, we’ll be first in line.
What To Do Instead
Rewatch Season 1
What better way to relive the magic than to literally watch Daisy Jones & The Six season 1 all over again? It’s been over a year, so we think we have permission for a little reminiscing.
Read Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Novels
If you loved Daisy Jones & The Six and want to relive the magic, the sad news is that very little comes close. The next best thing is to read Daisy Jones & The Six (if you haven’t already) or pick up another of Reid’s best-selling novels. The three that explore fame like Daisy Jones & The Six are The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017), Malibu Rising (2021) and Carrie Soto Is Back (2022). There are some fun crossovers with Daisy Jones, too.
Wait For The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Netflix is officially turning Reid’s 2017 novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo into a feature film written by Liz Tigelaar, directed by Leslye Headland, and executive produced by Margaret Chernin. Alas, that is everything we know so far, but hopefully Netflix will release further news soon.
Watch The Get Down
This Netflix series was cancelled after only one season, but explores another side of 1970s America. (Literally over on the east coast instead of the west.) Set in the Bronx area of NYC in the 1970s, The Get Down was created by Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis, and follows the rise of hip-hop and disco music through the eyes of a group of teenagers.
Watch This Town
For a glimpse into what was going on across the Atlantic in the 1970s, watch This Town, a BBC series that was released earlier this year. Across six episodes, we follow four young people who are drawn into Coventry and Birmingham’s exploding grassroots music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, uniting Black, white and Asian youths.
Listen To AURORA
The album Daisy Jones & The Six created during the limited series is called AURORA – and a real album was released in tandem with the series. If you don’t fancy a rewatch, why not just sing along to the tracks on their own?
WATCH
All episodes of Daisy Jones & The Six are streaming exclusively on Prime Video. amazon.co.uk
