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Pistol

Drama, Music, History · 2022 · Rated 7.3/10

Last aired: S1 E6, Track 6: Who Killed Bambi? · 2022-05-31

Based on Sex Pistols' guitarist Steve Jones' memoir, which offers a fascinating new perspective on one of rock's greatest ever stories, Pistol moves from West London's council estates, to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's notorious Kings Road SEX shop, to the international controversy that came with the release of Never Mind the Bollocks, which is frequently listed as one of the most influential albums of all time.

Cast

Toby Wallace Steve Jones

Maisie Williams Pamela Rooke / Jordan

Anson Boon John Lydon

Jacob Slater Paul Cook

Sydney Chandler Chrissie Hynde

Talulah Riley Vivienne Westwood

Thomas Brodie Sangster Malcolm McLaren

Louis Partridge Sid Vicious

Christian Lees Glen Matlock

Emma Appleton Nancy Spungen

Bianca Stephens Pauline

Season 1

E1 Track 1: The Cloak of Invisibility 2022-05-31 · 45 min Desperate to escape the bleak future that society has decreed for him, 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 gaze.

E2 Track 2: Rotten 2022-05-31 · 50 min As Steve grasps his final chance and attempts to learn guitar in five days, a fury named Johnny Rotten arrives on the scene and the Sex Pistols are born.

E3 Track 3: Bodies 2022-05-31 · 54 min 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.

E4 Track 4: Pretty Vaaaycunt 2022-05-31 · 56 min The idyllic moment where success is not yet fame, is soon obliterated when the band shock the nation out of its tea-time torpor. The resulting media frenzy causes egos to explode. Steve is emotionally blackmailed by Malcom into replacing bassist Glen Matlock with glorious looking, but musically inept, Sid Vicious.

E5 Track 5: Nancy & Sid 2022-05-31 · 54 min 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.

E6 Track 6: Who Killed Bambi? 2022-05-31 · 52 min Malcolm tries to ruin the Pistols by touring in the South, where they're reviled; 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.

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