Pistol on Hulu

If it's about that guy Pistol Black, I'll watch for sure. He's hot.

Another rock and roll swindle.

It can't be any more chaotic than the God awful second season of Russian Doll. What a shit show that was.

Seems pretty straightforward to me, if a little dull.

Johnny is such a crotchety bitch.

Does Sid/Louis Partridge get raped in prison in this?

RD’s 2nd season wasn’t that bad. Casting po-faced Chloe Sevigny was a mistake though.

Johnny really got disappointing. He's just pissed it wasn't his autobiography that got adapted. I had bo idea that Chrissie Hynde played such a big part. The girl is a fine actress. But shes more Angelina in Gia than Chrissie in Brass in Pocket

Poor Glen.

So depressing.

I saw the first episode and thought it was boring as fuck! and everyone is ugly as fuck in it.

I felt bad that steve was abused by his dad...that is about it.

Dreadfully dull and tepidly tame and that pig-faced lead actor really sucks.

I read somewhere (and I agree) that they built the show around one of the least compelling members of the band (Steve Jones) and that's where it falters.

I know John Lydon can be a dick but he's way more interesting then what they ended up using (Steve's story).

I’ve just started watching this, am up to the third episode.

I grew up in the 80’s fascinated with punk and thought I knew everything about the history of Malcom McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, the Bromley Contingent, Sex Pistols, etc. Turns out there’s a lot I didn’t know about.

I get the criticism of basing the series on Steve Jones’ book being a mistake but I don’t agree. So much has been written and created on the legacy of Sid Vicious and Johnny Lydon over the years, Malcolm and Vivienne too. It’s interesting to see it through the eyes of someone else who was right in the center of it all.

Yes, I’d always known Chrissy Hynde had moved from America to London in the 70s and fell into the Sex Pistols scene, I’d see her in photographs and stuff. But I had no idea how deeply immersed she was in all of it. She never seem to capitalize on any of that notoriety during the Pretenders’ heyday in the 80s.

The actress they got to play Siouxsie nails it

I don't like the way it was directed. Looks terrible. Nothing good is ever on hulu

Really boring

I’m glad they touched heavily on Vivienne Westwood and Malcom’s use of swastikas in their clothing. Usually movies and things about that detail of the punk era will avoid that subject like the plague. They didn’t try to excuse it or censor it, just explain.

Gawker today…

Gawker sucks and so did that.

I loved the long sequence of Jordan going to work on a bike, train, etc.

The wardrobe was pretty good.

The casting was weird : Exhibit A: Malcolm McLaren is played by what appears to be a teenager extracted from HARRY POTTER PART 12; Exhibit B: Johnny Rotten is played by what appears to be Vyvyan from THE YOUNG ONES and sounds more like Jake Burns/Stiff Little Fingers but less realism than either; Exhibit C: Vivienne Westwood is more Cate Blanchette than Vivienne Westwood;

Exhibit D - Sid played by a male model and not someone as ugly as Sid.

the guy who played sid was fat!

R25 Speaking of, the guy playing Steve Jones’ weight really fluctuates during the series. There was one howler shot of him in episode three talking to Chrissy in an alley where his face magically gained ten pounds overnight (and had shorter hair!), and then all was back to normal in the next scene.

Lots of shots of sexy men’s bums. So I’m all for it! I’m for equalized male/female nudity on TV.

The GAME OF THRONES actor looked like Jordan, whoever played Helen/Helen Of Troy was good, and the lady they cast as Siouxsie Sioux was very convincing/spot on.

It’s too bad no one could force more discipline on this bloated mess.

[quote] Apart from the bare facts of someone playing and someone listening, there’s a social function that is satisfied when the roles of performer and audience are adhered to, however creatively. It has to do with how theorists describe ritual as a many-layered process of drawing together and separating out: first between insiders and outsiders, then practitioner and congregants, all the way down to subject and object. But the result is not endless fragmentation. Rather, in the performance of all these divisions, a higher-order interrelation is created, drawing even insiders and outsiders under the banner of a reality in which the whole thing is possible to begin with.

Someone got paid to write this. (Gawker link above)

They got Siouxsie and the Banshees singing “The Lords Prayer” wrong. It’s shown as a more polished song with a tight looking band on stage at a club.

They actually performed it only once as an chaotic improv at their very first gig at the 100 Club, announced at the last minute, and did it spontaneously because they had written no songs, and Sid Vicious was their impromptu drummer that night (he wasn’t helping Johnny Rotten after he got stabbed with a broken bottle in another part of the room).

The band did re-create the “moment” much later for their second album Join Hands, but to my knowledge did not perform it again in their early days.

Still… the scene as portrayed and edited did work for the series. And I’m clearly just an anal, no-fun, knit-picker! (and a Siouxsie fan).

And the cinematography was maddeningly pretentious.

Yeah, too many obvious tilted camera shots.

The Christine Hynde character was a preposterous plot contrivance, just plain wrong, and does almost all of the heavy lifting.

*Chrissie