Review of Pistol

This tv show is weird.. First of all, the opening admits this was inspired by true events. Inspired! So yes this is not the truth, of course it is fiction. It is the story of Steve jones as he sees himself, half criminal mindex sex machine, half nostalgic romantic rocknroller. It cannot decide what it wants to be, half it is youth drama, half it is comedic elements of larger than life comical characters. It has such great scenes and such terribly bad ones they made me cover my eyes and ears. No w8nder Lydon was pissed off by the show the way he comes across at times, though the Actor Boon really does his best to give him some justice and most times even succeeds. Who should really be angry the way he is portraied is Glen Matlock! And what did they do to poor extras such as Pauline and Debbie Juvenile? The entire Bromley contingent come about as pretentious clowns who are possibly into polyamourous group sex with each other and the entire band. Lot of the things the film shows directly contradicts statements of Bandmembers... never mind the bollocks! Chrissie Hnydes affair with Jones is largely exaggerated while her friendship with Lydon is played down... theere was need to emphasize Jonesys emotiinal side, because he is also shown as am amoral predator who stalks underage fangirls. Malcolm Mclaren is a puckish villain, half loki half childish idealist, yet he probably would have even liked his portrayal. Paul cook is the down on earth best friend and only likeable character in the band. The real Cookie can't complain. Sid and Nancy are portrayed accordingly to the descriptions of the characters people gave and the actors do a great job.

In the end i found the series very watchable and interesting, despite some terribly bad scenes. Don't care about authenticity.. this is probably how Steve Jones saw things, and most of the time he didn't care all too much.