NEVER MIND, IT'S BOLLOCKS

Where to begin with director Danny Boyle's Pistol on Disney+, it's hard to know as there are so many faults with it. Nice middle class chaps with excruciating cockney accents make up the main body of actors which is not to detract from the helium ingested Kenneth Williams vocal acrobatics of Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Malcolm McLaren. One is reminded of the Black Adder The Third thespians when viewing the portrayal of the erstwhile svengali in full flow. 

I don't recall Pamela Rooke aka Jordan, being as posh as the portrayal of her seen here, nor was Siouxsie a shrinking violet as seen lurking in the background. As for the parents of Steve 'Jonesy' Jones (the main protagonist on whose biography this shambes is based), they are portrayed as a stereotypical abusive relationship couple you might see opening the door to their flat on the Jasmine Allen Estate to an investigating officer from Sun Hill nick.

The characters of Sid and Nancy are given far too much screen time in which to tell their parasitic and lamebrained story. Both actors struggle to bring any depth to the roles; which when you think about the vapidity of the toxic twosome is some achievement.

Which brings us to Anson Boon's John Lydon/Johnny Rotten. What can you say about his performance that hasn't already been said about Rik Mayall's in Drop Dead Fred?

Toby Wallace has neither the charisma or the screen presence to play the lead character and the other cast members playing  musicians and assorted famous faces are pretty bland in truth. Broadly speaking, Talulah Riley does an impression of Vivienne Westwood rather than a performance (broadly being apropos)

The only actor to come out of this with any credibility is as a young Chrissie Hynde. It probably helps that she did not have to try and conjure up an American accent, but she is very good

Danny Boyle is a talented and accomplished director but on Pistol he has seriously misfired. He's firing blanks on this one and no amount of bleary eyed nostalgia can redeem this six part series. How he managed to get this so wrong is a genuine mystery. What might have been a show on a par with Anton Corbjin's excellent Control turns out to be simply CaRRy oN pUnKiNG