Review: You think you know the Sex Pistols. This new TV show tries to deliver a corrective
It's been 44 years since the Sex Pistols broke up and only a couple more since they played their first gig, having produced only one actual album in their lifetime. And yet they seem very much with us; the best of their music continues to sound massively huge, outside of time and trend.
The 2016 memoir of guitarist Steve Jones, "Lonely Boy," has been adapted into "Pistol," a miniseries directed by Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting," et al.) and written by Baz Luhrmann's go-to scenarist, Craig Pearce. The singular form of the title tells us that the series, which premiered Tuesday on FX on Hulu, is not the story of the band so much as of a particular member — a bias, or angle, quickly apparent from what's onscreen. Even John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, who for many is the Sex Pistol, takes a bit of a back seat. Inevitably, there
