The first time Waller-Bridge interrupts her own dialog to shoot a disarming, conspiratorial glance to the screen, you're hooked. This magnificent sitcom about a Londoner (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) grappling with the death of her best friend has no filter: You'll hear her thoughts on feminism, familial tension, love, and sodomy. Yet after watching this 12-episode series we defy you not to love her a little. Her family is loathsome, her lifestyle is ridiculous, and her job is a joke. She's maniacal, selfish, self-destructive, and morally bankrupt. Raine is a phenomenally commanding lead throughout, while Capaldi's sinister performance is one of the most chilling you'll see on screen. As her nightmares draw her into the orbit of police detective Ravi Dhillon's (Nikesh Patel) investigations of a bloody murder and a child's abduction, Lucy comes face-to-face with Shepherd as she tries to uncover how the two are entangled. The focus is on Lucy (Jessica Raine), an over-burdened social worker with an increasingly distant and troubled young son, who wakes at exactly 3:33 am every morning, plagued by horrific visions. This is, instead, a mix of murder mystery and thriller, tied off with a dash of the supernatural. That’s about as close as this gritty six-part drama gets to Doctor Who, though. When Peter Capaldi, here playing mysterious criminal Gideon Shepherd, says “my perception of time is better than anyone’s,” it’s clear that The Devil’s Hour creator Tom Moran is having a little fourth-wall-breaking fun with his former Time Lord leading man. Yet with its fantastic cast, period-perfect tone, and phenomenal soundtrack-one that’s warranted its own release as the album Aurora, by the series’ eponymous band- Daisy Jones & the Six takes on a life of its own.

If it all sounds a bit Fleetwood Mac, that should come as no surprise-the author of the book the series is based on, Taylor Jenkins Reid, has said the legendary folk-rock band was an inspiration. Soon, her soulful vocals and insightful songwriting help propel The Six to the top of the charts-but at the height of their careers, everything comes tumbling down as years of wandering hearts, illicit sex, battles with sobriety, and the rigors of rock ‘n’ roll take their toll. In the late ‘60s, talented but listless ingenue Daisy (Riley Keough) meets aspiring rocker Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) and his aspiring group, eventually joining the band herself. Spanning a decade, Daisy Jones & the Six follows the formation, stratospheric success, and crushing break-up of the greatest band the 1970s never saw in reality.

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