Never mind the bollocks. Here’s some more Sex Pistols. The ’70s London mayhem makers have become the most chronicled punk band of them all, a fact that would please their late publicity-mad manager, Malcolm McLaren, to no end.

There’s the pair of films from Julien Temple, “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle” (1980) and “The Filth and the Fury” (2000). There’s Alex Cox’s tragedy of heroin and murder, “Sid and Nancy” (1986). And now comes “Pistol,” the new FX and Hulu limited series based on the memoir by band guitarist Steve Jones, “Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol.” It’s enough to make you stand in front of the mirror and practice your own sneer.

所扮演的Toby Wallace, Jones, or “Jonesy” as his friends call him, is the vulnerable Pistol, cuddly even. He suffers from stage fright. He was sexually abused by his stepfather as a boy. He may be a kleptomaniac sex fiend, but you still want to give him a hug and tell him everything will be all right. Of course, this would be a lie, because he’s a member of a band that made an art form of self-destruction.

Directed by Danny Boyle, written and created by frequent Baz Luhrmann collaborator Craig Pearce, “Pistol” captures that self-destruction and manages to make it look like a lot of fun—until, of course, it isn’t. Mixing swirling archival footage of ’70s London with scenes that often look like they were shot on home video, the series sputters a bit at the start and has a hard time finding an ending. In between, however, it suggests what it might have been like to turn fear of the future into a jagged, raucous, working-class rallying cry.

With McLaren (played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster of “The Queen’s Gambit”) pulling the strings, the Pistols were often about provocation for the sake of provocation. But they still managed to make some snarling good music along the way.

It all starts when Jones tries to nick some clothes from the fetish clothing shop run by McLaren and Vivienne Westwood (Talulah Riley). McLaren admires the kid’s spunk. Jones asks McLaren to manage his band, still in nascent form. Jones is the frontman, but his stage fright sends him to the background. Enter John Lydon, played by Anson Boon as a particularly articulate feral beast. Bassist Glen Matlock (Christian Lees) has the misfortune of knowing how to play his instrument and looking rather ordinary; he’s sacked from the band and replaced by the charismatic but dim and talentless Sid Vicious (Louis Partridge), who falls for the poisonous American groupie Nancy Spungen (Emma Appleton). What could go wrong?

“Pistol” conjures an aesthetic—chaotic, jittery, improvised—that nicely matches its subject. It also includes a number of female characters generally far saner than their male counterparts. These include Chrissie Hynde (Sydney Chandler, Kyle Chandler’s daughter), Jones’ frequent sexual partner and conscience, who would go on to form the seminal American rock band the Pretenders. Hynde is never a member of the Pistols; she’s no glutton for punishment. But she does have a front-row seat for the train wreck. And with this show, so do we.

M“Pistol”:Limited series. Starring Toby Wallace, Sydney Chandler, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Talulah Riley, Anson Boon, Emma Appleton and Louis Partridge. Created by Craig Pearce. (TV-MA. Six episodes at approximately 60 minutes each.) All episodes available to stream Tuesday, May 31, on Hulu.