Johnny Rotten was right to sue to stop FX’s Pistol from going forward.The Sex Pistols and PiL frontman was ultimately unsuccessful in his legal efforts last year to prevent the seminal band’s music being used in the Danny Boyle directed miniseries.
However, Pistol, which dropped in its entirety today on the Disney-owned Hulu, is an overly sentimental love letter that should never have been sent.
You’d find more depth and authenticity on how England has been really dreamin’ over the decades in this week’s pomp packed Platinum Jubilee for the disastrous reign of Elizabeth IISimply put, Pistol is more junk than punk.Even with searing classics like “God Save the Queen” in the well crafted soundtrack mix, the six-episode series based in part on guitarist Steve Jones’ 2017 memoir limps along when it should roar.
Hobbled with a surprisingly sub-standard coming of age story held together figuratively and literally by amphetamines, safety pins and the POV of Toby Wallace as Jones, Pistol gets jammed up in the contradictions of the Sex Pistols where it could have reveled in them with revolutionary enthusiasm and clear eyes.In that sense, a sharper blueprint for the bloated Craig Pierce penned project could have been singer John Lydon’s sparring Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs from 1993 melded with the saga of the band’s Situationist inspired manager in Paul Gorman’s admittedly overwritten The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography from 2020.
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