admars(Elite) posted this on Monday, 13th June 2022, 20:25
2 episodes in, still not sure about it. The guy who plays Malcolm McLaren is v good, probably because there's an actual character to get his teeth into and act like an arse, "Chrissie Hynde" "Jordan", and are also interesting, again as they have some character, the rest are all a bit "meh" which is maybe the point, but as it's Steve Jones' story it makes part of it a bit dull :(
"Lydon" hasn't been in it much but he seems pretty good, like McLaren probably cos he can ham it up like he's in pantomime ;)
It's interesting to watch, as like Winning Time, a lot of time and effort has gone into making it look like it's the 70s, rather than just being set in the 70s if that makes sense?
admars(Elite) posted this on Saturday, 18th June 2022, 21:19
episode 3 is better, probably because it has more of a story, it has a "I may destroy you" sort of tone to it, and is about SPOILER: the song Bodies which I never knew was inspired by a real person ! :(
admars(Elite) posted this on Friday, 22nd July 2022, 21:56
Having finished watching the good dramas I've been watching I went back to this, watched the last 2 back to back, meh
"Chrissie Hynde" continues to be the best person in the show, most interesting, more interested in her story than the rest of them.
Even when Nancy turns up it's just a bit dull, yeh, she does heroin, Sid does heroin, tour in USA breaks up the band, deliberately left vague as to what may or may not have happened regarding their deaths, but I didn't really care.
I guess that's the problem when everyone is an unlikable twat, you just don't care that one horrible person is being nasty to another horrible person :(
On the plus side I guess it's good it didn't try to make them out to be saints?
I guess the infamous tv appearance bit was interesting, the public reaction to a "rude word" on tv back then, when now you hear school kids saying worse and the c word is the only word which depending on the show gets bleeped occasionally.
