Every Burning Question About the ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Ending, Answered
Daisy Jones & the Six began with a promise that we would learn why the fictional band broke up after a sold-out concert in Chicago at the height of their fame. And the show delivered. Are you crying after the Daisy Jones & the Six finale? Because I’m crying. Even if you read the Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, watching the ending play out onscreen was intense. Here’s a full recap of how Daisy Jones & the Six ended.
The finale teases out what happened, alternating between a performance from their final concert and another piece of the band’s crucial last day. It kept me on the edge of my seat, overanalyzing every frown and meaningful glance onstage as more details get filled in. You think it’s going to be all about Daisy and Billy…but nope. There were at least five different kinds of drama that contributed to only two of the six band members getting on the bus the next morning. Friends and lovers were breaking up left and right. Let’s get into it.
The tension among Daisy, Billy, and Camila hit a breaking point.
It almost feels cheap to call it a love triangle because the show is so careful to show how complicated the relationship among these three characters is. It’s not Team Camila vs. Team Daisy. It’s not about Billy choosing his head over his heart. The connection that Billy and Daisy share is not just music and mutual respect but also their darker sides. Daisy sees what Billy doesn’t want Camila to see. (But ofc, Camila can see it.)
In the penultimate episode, Camila sees Billy and Daisy confess their feelings to each other. While she doesn’t hear what her husband says—that he would never leave Camila, so the music that he and Daisy made has to be enough—it was enough for her to confront him before the show. Billy tells her that nothing has happened between him and Daisy outside of a single kiss. That’s only technically the truth. She knows it. He knows it. Daisy knows it too but goes after Camila to try and back Billy up. Daisy and Camila have a lot of genuine love for each other as well, but Camila is still angry despite Daisy raising a proverbial white flag.
Billy goes to a bar to try and call Camila on a pay phone, begging her to come back for the show…and ends up taking a drink from the bartender. So things spiral out of control during the show. Billy is drinking and thinking his wife left him. He’s all over Daisy, onstage and off. She’s a bit perturbed—as far as she knows too, Camila left—but it’s clear from the way he fell off the wagon that this is not going to be a fairy-tale ending.
During the encore, Daisy whispers “go” to Billy. He runs offstage and into a car to chase after Camila. The band plays “Honeycomb” for their final performance, and the words “we can make a good thing bad” have a new, bittersweet meaning. Camila was their good thing. She was the sixth member of the Six, after all.
Daisy went to rehab.
After the show, Daisy tells Rod that she’s leaving. Technically, Daisy doesn’t quit the band because of Billy. She quits because she decided to get sober. Witnessing Billy’s relapse that day both onstage and off did factor into her decision though. Flash-forward to the future where she’s being interviewed, and we learn that she had a solo career and many, many great loves. We also learn, toward the end of the episode, that she had a daughter.
Eddie was kicked out, er, quit.
The bassist’s jealousy finally spills over. He confronts Billy about taking his solo at the Pittsburgh show and basically feeling unappreciated since they were the Dunne Brothers. He also tells Billy that he and Camila slept together—poorly and not directly, in my opinion, but Billy seems to get the gist. Billy punches him and then during the show tells him he’s out of the band. In the future, we learn that he started a second band but it never really took off in the same way.
Karen gave Graham some tough love.
Daisy and Billy weren’t the only couple going through it. In the final episode, Karen reveals to Graham that she got an abortion. Graham isn’t upset that she terminated the pregnancy—he’s upset that he wasn’t with her. Much like Daisy and Billy and Camila, the show allows this relationship to be messy and complicated! Karen says that Graham didn’t listen to her when she said she didn’t want kids, ever. Graham says she’ll be alone forever. Then after the concert, he says he’d commit to a childless life on the road with her…so she breaks up with him to keep him from compromising.
The morning after the final concert, Graham can’t bring himself to get on the bus. With everyone else peacing out, only Karen and Warren actually show up.
We learn that in the future, Graham is back in his hometown and married with kids. Karen went on to become an ’80s lady with a keytar in a band with big Robert Palmer “Addicted to Love” vibes. Graham tells the interviewer that he owes his happiness to Karen’s brutal honesty, but she says in the interview footage that she wasn’t being honest. Ahhhhh!
Warren lowkey came out on top.
In the documentary-style footage, we learn that he married a movie star (based on comedians of the era like Gilda Radner and Madeline Kahn) and kept on drumming. He even played on Daisy Jones’s solo album. He’s the only one who never burned bridges and seemed to have the whole thing figured out.
It was Julia all along….
The big reveal toward the end of the episode is that Billy and Camila’s daughter, Julia Dunne, a fictional Gen X icon, is the one filming the band for a documentary, Reality Bites style, in the ’90s. She gets everyone to talk. She knows the right questions to ask.
We also learn that Camila was sick and at some point during Julia’s interview process passed away. Before she dies, Camila makes a video for Daisy and Billy urging them to call each other up when they feel ready. As she says, they still owe her a song.
The season ends with the two of them doing just that…but if that means Daisy and Billy “end up together,” it’s not about Camila getting out of the way, IMHO. Maybe that’s obvious, but I think it needs to be said! Both of these characters have grown. Not for nothing, they’ve gotten clean and sober and worked on themselves in the decades since the band broke up. Resuming their relationship would no longer be an act of self-destruction. It’s about timing as much as anything else.
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