Pistol

2022

MA15+

Rating

Eligible

Season 1 episodes (5)

1 Track 1 - The Cloak Of Invisibility

5/13/24

Desperate to escape the bleak future that society has decreed for him; charismatic Steve Jones convinces Malcolm McLaren to manage his band; The Swankers. But Steve discovers that his "Cloak of Invisibility" cannot shield him from the audience's penetrating gaze.

3 Track 3 - Bodies

5/13/24

As Steve and Chrissie Hynde begin to make more than just music; the Pistols begin to wreak anarchy in the U.K. and Johnny Rotten takes deeper inspiration from a grieving young woman.

4 Track 4 - Pretty Vaaaycunt

5/13/24

The idyllic moment where success is not yet fame; is soon obliterated when the band shocks the nation out of its tea-time torpor. The resulting media frenzy causes egos to explode. Steve is emotionally blackmailed by Malcolm into replacing bassist Glen Matlock with glorious looking; but musically inept; Sid Vicious.

5 Track 5 - Nancy & Sid

5/13/24

As Nancy and Sid's love ignites; Sid becomes increasingly lost to heroin and violence. A plan is hatched to get rid of Nancy; but on a riverboat stunt during the Queen's Jubilee to promote "God Save the Queen;" chaos takes hold.

6 Track 6 - Who Killed Bambi?

5/13/24

Malcolm decides that the Sex Pistols have become too much like a rock band; famous; inaccessible – and so he must blow them up. He tours the Pistols not in the big U.S. cities where they're loved; but in the South; where they're reviled. The pressure is unbearable; Johnny leaves the band; and a heroin-ridden Sid becomes lead singer. Steve desperately tries to hold the band together; but Nancy is found murdered in a New York City hotel room; and Sid is the main suspect.

About this show

Pistol is a six-episode limited series about a rock and roll revolution. The furious; raging storm at the center of this revolution are the Sex Pistols - and at the center of this series is Sex Pistols' founding member and guitarist; Steve Jones. Jones' hilarious; emotional and at times heart-breaking journey guides us through a kaleidoscopic telling of three of the most epic; chaotic; and mucus-spattered years in the history of music. Based on Jones' memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol; this is the story of a band of spotty; noisy; working-class kids with "no future;" who shook the boring; corrupt Establishment to its core; threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.

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