11/19/2023 0 Comments Pam and tommy new episodesNo amount of impersonation, or sympathetic portrayals in which Pam clearly recognizes the biases against her, can get me past the fact that a show about consent exists without the consent of one of its central subjects. It’s deliberately uncomfortable to watch, and while there’s a lot going on here, much of it interesting and admirable, not all discomfort is productive. Are we not repeating that horror now? Pam & Tommy recreates parts of the tape, has actors mimic Anderson and Lee’s sex noises, includes montages of them having cartoonishly vigorous sex, uses prosthetics to imitate their famous anatomies. But, for me, it’s inseparable from the off-screen context. James’s performance of paralyzing dread is excellent, her slow-burn horror palpable, chilling. In one standout scene from the fourth episode, time ceases to pass as Pam overhears Baywatch crew watching the tape and realizes that it’s her voice, that it’s her tape, that strangers are watching her private video. She has not spoken publicly about the series, but sources have expressed her discontent and disappointment in multiple outlets.Īnderson’s reticence looms over everything. While Stan has confirmed that he spoke with Lee, who has praised his portrayal, Anderson did not respond to producers’ overtures. But there’s one detail that, for me, turns this whole palate sour: the real Pamela Anderson did not want this story retold. It’s a confusing, often entertaining watch, one that wants to have its fun and interrogate it, too, at best a heady blend of screwball comedy, madcap romance, expensive nostalgia and serious retrospective of a public scandal in which a woman’s privacy was invaded, her intimate moments exploited and judged without her consent.
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