'Daisy Jones & The Six' review: Riley Keough fronts a rock soap opera

Adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. 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. 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. The 10-episode series, which premiered 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).

If it gains an actual soundtrack, the book does lose something in translation, as multiple narrators' viewpoints are largely merged into a straightforward telling. Reid's approach also