Originally Posted by
FORD
So this thing popped up on Hulu this past week. Apparently it's not airing on the FX cable channel, though that was the original plan. Probably wouldn't cut language and one or two sexual scenes that might be a bit much for cable.
My impressions so far....
The Steve Jones character looks nothing like Steve Jones. He actually looks more like the kid with the speech impediment on "Stranger Things" (which I'm also watching this week)
The Johnny Rotten character sings nothing like the real Johnny. Seriously, they should have asked me to dub the voice. I could pull it off.
Musically.... well, let's just say they're treating the timeline of the band's music about as accurately as Queen's music was treated in Bohemian Rhapsody. For example, they have the band writing "Bodies" just shortly after "Anarchy" in early 1976... which is a total crock of shit. "Bodies" was literally the last song they wrote for "Never Mind The Bollocks" and they definitely never played it with Glenn Matlock until the 1996 reunion tour.
Biggest surprise for me so far is the Chrissie Hynde character. I was aware that she knew the Pistols back in the day, and even that she attempted to teach Rotten how to play guitar at one point (unsuccessfully) but I wasn't aware that she had worked in McLaren's shop, that she had a "friends with benefits" thing going with Jones, and that they almost got a "green card" marriage so she could stay in England, but Steve chickened out at the last minute. (Rotten then "proposed" to her, but she didn't marry him either, but instead went with the douchebag "journalist" and Keef- wannabe, Nick Kent)
The way the musical process has been inaccurately portrayed.... I'm guessing this is the root of John Lydon's opposition to the entire process. He described the series as "disrespectful".