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Pistol(TV show/series, 2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| 45min per episode | Genre: Drama

Mini series in 1 season with 6 episodes

PistolRating: 3.9/5 (with 38 votes)
Pistol is a British biographical drama television miniseries about British punk band the Sex Pistols. It was created by Craig Pearce for FX and directed by Danny Boyle. The series follows Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and the band's rise to prominence and notoriety. It premiered on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK on 31 May 2022. ()
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About Pistol

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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Pistol Seasons and Episodes

05/31/2022Miniseries - 6 episodes
#1 | 05/31/2022Track 1: The Cloak of Invisibility
4.7/5 (with 14 votes)
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 gaze.
#2 | 05/31/2022Track 2: Rotten
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#3 | 05/31/2022Track 3: Bodies
4.5/5 (with 6 votes)
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 | 05/31/2022Track 4: Pretty Vaaayc**t
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)
The idyllic moment where success is not yet fame is obliterated when the band shock the nation out of its torpor. The media frenzy causes egos to explode. Steve is emotionally blackmailed by Malcom into replacing bassist Glen Matlock with Sid Vicious.
#5 | 05/31/2022Track 5: Nancy and Sid
4.6/5 (with 6 votes)
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 | 05/31/2022Track 6: Who Killed Bambi?
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)
Malcolm decides that the Sex Pistols have become too much like a rock band, so he must blow them up. Johnny leaves the band, and a Sid becomes lead singer. Nancy is found murdered in New York City, and Sid is the main suspect.

Additional Information

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 16 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 05/31/2022
Cast: Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Louis Partridge, Christian Lees, Emma Appleton, Talulah Riley, Alex Arnold, Maisie Williams, Iris Law, Kai Alexander, Lorne MacFadyen, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Director: Danny Boyle
Film Editor: Jon Harris
Director of Photography: Anthony Dod Mantle

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:44339, Added: 01/17/2021, Last updated: 03/28/2024