The Best Episodes Written By Craig Pearce

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(18 votes)

   #1 - Track 1: The Cloak of Invisibility

   S1:E15/31/2022

   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 gaze.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - The Two Gentlemen

   S1:E37/17/2017

   Will has an epiphany that could bring him success, yet he needs Alice's help. A magnetic fugitive from Will's past comes forth with a dangerous obligation.

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   7.2/10(9 votes)

   #3 - Track 5: Nancy and Sid

   S1:E55/31/2022

   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.

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   7.2/10(9 votes)

   #4 - Track 3: Bodies

   S1:E35/31/2022

   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.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - The Marriage of True Minds

   S1:E57/31/2017

   An unexpected arrival from out-of-town sends Will's world spinning. A transcendental experience leads Marlowe to deal with his past. Topcliffe deciphers a code that throws Will into a life and death situation.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Cowards Die Many Times

   S1:E27/10/2017

   Will is plagued with guilt over the arrest of a rival playwright, and he makes a dangerous confession to the sightly, rebellious Alice. The future of the theatre is jeopardized when another playhouse tempts a popular actor.

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   6.2/10(5 votes)

   #7 - Track 6: Who Killed Bambi?

   S1:E65/31/2022

   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 a Sid becomes lead singer. Nancy is found murdered in New York City, and Sid is the main suspect.

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   5.6/10(9 votes)

   #8 - Track 2: Rotten

   S1:E25/31/2022

   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.

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   5.4/10(8 votes)

   #9 - Track 4: Pretty Vaaayc**t

   S1:E45/31/2022

   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 Malcom into replacing bassist Glen Matlock with Sid Vicious.

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    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Play's the Thing

    S1:E17/10/2017

    It's 1589, a time of religious turmoil in Protestant England when to be Catholic could be a death sentence - Will Shakespeare arrives from a small town to the wild streets of London with little more than a dream and a treacherous letter.

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