Let's Talk About the Finale of Daisy Jones & the Six
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Spoiler alert for episode 10 of Daisy Jones & the Six on Prime Video. If you don't want to know what happens, turn back now!
The tension between Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin) is palpable throughout the entire season of Daisy Jones & the Six, and it came to a boiling point in the finale, "Track 10: Rock 'n' Roll Suicide."
But let's talk about the very last scene of Daisy Jones & the Six, which features Billy knocking on Daisy's door, and Daisy opening it. They both look at each other, and smile. Does this mean Billy and Daisy end up together? It's intentionally left open for interpretation.
In Taylor Jenkins Reid's book that the television show is based on, the novel ends with a copy of an email Camila sends to her daughters, Julia, Susana, and Maria. The subject: "Your Dad" (a.k.a. Billy Dunne). Camila writes, "Hi Girls, I need your help. After I'm gone, give your dad some time. And then please tell him to call Daisy Jones. Her number is in my date book in the second drawer of my nightstand. Tell your father I said at the very least, the two of them owe me a song. Love, Mom."
Obviously, there are some key differences between the book and show (like how Camila and Billy just have one daughter), but critically, the reader never finds out if Billy ever calls up Daisy after Camila passes away.
"I didn't know that it was gonna end that way!" Reid tells Town & Country about the finale of Daisy Jones & the Six. "I think it's interesting, because I would say the question that I get asked the most from readers—that I never answer!—is 'does Billy call Daisy?' I am asked that every event, I am DM'd it all the time. And my answer is always, 'You know the answer. You're asking me, but you know the answer.' You know, Scott knew the answer."
"Letters are very hard to do in television," creator Scott Neustadter tells Town & Country. "What we wanted to do was go for an ending that wasn't necessarily a happy ending and it wasn't necessarily a sad ending, but it was a hopeful ending—which is kind of the sweet spot that I'm always going for."
The final scenes of episode ten primarily feature the present day talking heads, and Daisy shares that she has been sober since the final performance of the band, and has a daughter now. Billy talks about going to rehab again, starting therapy, and joining "the program" (likely Alcoholics Anonymous). And, just as in the book, Camila dies.
The show also reveals that Julia, Billy and Camila's daughter, has been the one recording all the interviews. (In the book, she's also the one conducting the oral histories, but her reveal happens at a different point in the story.) In the lead up to the final scene, this exchange happens between Daisy and Julia:
"Do you ever want to do it again?" Julia asks Daisy.
"Do what, honey?" Daisy replies.
"You know," she shrugs.
"I don't know how your mother would've felt about that," Daisy says.
"I do," Julia answers.
Julia then opens up her camcorder to show Daisy an interview she taped of Camila. The audience sees Camila adjusting her wig, implying she has lost her hair due to cancer treatment, and then chatting to her daughter about who else has agreed to interviews, because Camila wants to make sure Daisy is involved. Camila says to tell Daisy that she's happy for her and that she's always been her biggest fan. "You know what else?" Camila says. "Tell your father to give her a call." We then see that Billy, too, watches Camilla's interview.
"We have had such a wonderful marriage, your father and I," Camila says. "We chose each other, but nothing in life is ever as simple as we want it to be. So one day, when he's ready, tell your father to give Daisy Jones a call. And tell Daisy Jones to answer. At the very least, those two still owe me a song."
Essentially her words are the same as in the book, and Daisy Jones & the Six ends with Billy knocking on Daisy's door, and Daisy answering, just as Camila hoped.
"I'm allergic to happy endings," Neustadter tells T&C. "Just because she opens the door for him and just because he goes there, I don't think it tells you what's gonna happen next. Hopefully it leaves the door open for everyone to to sort of make their own ending."
Stars Riley Keough and Sam Claflin have their own thoughts on the ending. Keough tells T&C, "I would love to keep open for interpretation and have the audience have their own version of what that might look like, personally." Claflin chimes in, saying, "I definitely played something—my idea of what happened, but what people take away from that is open to interpretation."
The singers reunite with smiles on their faces—so it's left for the viewers to decide whether or not Billy and Daisy get their happy ending.
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