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HISTORICAL FACTS: 3 - Caught on Camera

Sex Pistols show's rock 'n' roll swindle

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? "Pistol" boasts a great premise and cast, but skimps on the insights

Salon

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…

Los Angeles Times

The Sex Pistols rock again in Danny Boyle's FX show 'Pistol'

Anson Boon got so into playing Johnny Rotten that he hurt himself rocking too hard.

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Pistol on Disney+: A guide to the real-life punks who brought anarchy to the UK

The new Danny Boyle TV show is out today

Evening Standard

Pistol review – Danny Boyle’s wonky Sex Pistols show is like Punk: the Panto!

Johnny Rotten is the Artful Dodger crossed with an animated rodent in Boyle’s frustrating series that feels so cartoonish it falls totally flat

The Guardian - UK

Pistol review: Danny Boyle’s series never achieves the rollicking kineticism we associate with the Sex Pistols

Toby Wallace leads the cast of this series about the wild rise and incendiary fall of Britain’s most notorious and fractious punk rock band

The Independent UK

Pistol to Borgen: the seven best shows to stream this week

Danny Boyle’s gurning, sneering Sex Pistols show finally lands, and Birgitte Nyborg is back! Plus: ace new mockumentary Abbott Elementary and more Floor is Lava

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Pistol on Disney+ review: Danny Boyle’s series on the Sex Pistols can’t help but turn very dark

The grim realities of this story mean that the series is tonally uneven, but it’s never boring

Evening Standard

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

Daily Mirror

‘I want Johnny Rotten to attack it!’ Danny Boyle on his shocking Sex Pistols saga

How do you make a sympathetic TV show about the most cancelled, most banned, most shamelessly vile band ever – when your cast have barely heard of them and the frontman is taking you to court? The director reveals all

The Guardian - UK

Sex Pistols' John Lydon threatens to sue producers of upcoming miniseries about band

Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has threatened to sue the producers of FX miniseries Pistol - expected to be released next month - which is an upcoming show about the British punk band

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