Pistol review: Danny Boyle’s sanitised but watchable punk drama

Disney+ is show ‘so lacking in anarchic spirit it could be a Coldplay biopic’

Still from the TV show of the band in front of a bus
Disney-fied Pistols
(Image credit: DISNEY+/FX Networks)

“A drama about the Sex Pistols should be a riot,” said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. But Danny Boyle’s new six-part series (starring Anson Boon, Louis Partridge, Toby Wallace and Jacob Slater as the band’s classic line-up) is “so lacking in anarchic spirit that it may as well be a Coldplay biopic”.

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