The Sex Pistols Romp Through Rebellion in Pistol

“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” That was Johnny Rotten’s famous kiss-off to the audience at his final Sex Pistols concert in San Francisco, in January 1978. The band lasted only a short time, but its turbulent existence has been documented so diligently in the subsequent decades—and absorbed so thoroughly by the culture it was trying to demolish—that it’s hard to scrape back the layers of nostalgia and see punk afresh. That is what director Danny Boyle and writer Craig Pearce set out to do in the FX on Hulu limited series Pistol. A pro at making deprivation look… Read Full Article