Synopsis
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.
2022 Directed by Danny Boyle
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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I love that they teased Johnny Rotten at the end of the first episode like he was Thanos lmao
Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose an awful rock biopic. Choose Danny Boyle's late midlife crisis. Choose a "punk" biopic being exclusive to Disney+, Choose actors humiliating themselves just because Danny fucking Boyle said so. Choose rotting away, watching another awful fucking rock biopic. Choose your future. Choose life.
What's your hamster's name?
It's SID(!!!!!!)
Ow! He bit me! He's quite VICIOUS(!!!!!!)
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Is it a bit cringey? Yes.
Is it a melodramatic exaggeration of events? Yes.
Are the characters basically just cartoon renditions of the real people? Yes.
Is it a bit weird that a story about one of the most infamous punk bands is a FX Disney collaboration? Yes (although it's not like the Pistols weren't on major labels back back in the day and were more populist that most of the punk scene).
But did I weirdly have a load of fun, watching this silly fever dream of a show? Yes again.
Undeniably Pistol is style over substance, but when you have a director like Danny Boyle behind the camera that style is intoxicating. The show's visuals are easily the…
if louis partridge does that fucking thing with his lip one more time i’m going to rip my eyeballs out
YO QUEEN LIZZIE YOU ROCKING WITH THIS SHIT?!?!?!?!
update: rip queen lizzie, you would've loved pistol
every time Sydney Chandler came on screen i wanted to rip my own eyeballs out and fill my ears with concrete but other than that it’s okay