Plot Synopsis

Created and written by Craig Pearce, directed by Danny Boyle, and based the 2016 book "Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol" by Sex Pistol's guitarist Steve Jones, PISTOL is a six-episode limited series about the history of the Sex Pistols. A band of spotty, noisy, working-class English kids shake the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threaten to bring down the government, and change music and culture forever when they come together to form the Sex Pistols. All six episodes of PISTOL dropped on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 on FX on Hulu:

"Track 1: The Cloak of Invisibility": Desperate to escape the bleak future that society has decreed for him, charismatic Steve Jones convinces Malcolm McLaren to manage his band, The Swankers. But Steve discovers that his "Cloak of Invisibility" cannot shield him from the audience's penetrating gaze.

"Track 2: Rotten": As Steve grasps his final chance and attempts to learn guitar in five days, a fury named Johnny Rotten arrives on the scene and the Sex Pistols are born.

"Track 3: Bodies": As Steve and Chrissie Hynde begin to make more than just music, the Pistols begin to wreak anarchy in the U.K. and Johnny Rotten takes deeper inspiration from a grieving young woman.

"Track 4: Pretty Vaaayc**t": The idyllic moment where success is not yet fame is obliterated when the band shock the nation out of its torpor. The media frenzy causes egos to explode. Steve is emotionally blackmailed by Malcolm into replacing bassist Glen Matlock with glorious looking, but musically inept, Sid Vicious.

"Track 5: Nancy and Sid": As Nancy and Sid's love ignites, Sid becomes increasingly lost to heroin and violence. A plan is hatched to get rid of Nancy, but on a riverboat stunt during the Queen's Jubilee to promote "God Save the Queen," chaos takes hold.

"Track 6: Who Killed Bambi?": Malcolm decides that the Sex Pistols have become too much like a rock band, so he must blow them up. Johnny leaves the band, and Sid becomes lead singer. Nancy is found murdered in New York City, and Sid is the main suspect.