If it gains an actual soundtrack, the book does lose something in translation, as multiple narrators’ viewpoints are largely merged into a straightforward telling. The 10-episode series, premiering Friday on Amazon Prime Video, echoes it with a documentary framing - that is, the action is interspersed with scenes in which characters respond to an interviewer 20 years in the future (the late ’90s, saving the production team the trouble of aging the characters half a century). Set largely in the 1970s, the novel is rendered as an oral history, the story of the slow-then-fast rise and sudden fall of a rock band. Weber (“The Disaster Artist”) from the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, “Daisy Jones & the Six” is a soap opera wrapped inside a period backstage musical. Adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H.
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