Pam & Tommy
2022
Original language: English
- comedy
- drama
The story
This comedic series takes on the true story behind the release of the first ever viral video in history — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
What it’s like
Saturated 1990s palette: sun-faded Malibu pastels, mustard and teal motel rooms, hot-pink bachelor-pad carpet, and a ticking dial-up-era tackiness that makes every surface look slightly sticky. The camera stays fairly conventional and busy, with quick cuts, split-screen flourishes, and retro title cards that give it a snappy, magazine-spread energy, while the handheld moments in cramped offices and tour buses feel jittery and close. The sound is period pop and hair-metal, sharp needle drops, and bright, cheap-sounding ringtones that stab at the scenes. The vibe is brash, bitter and sardonic, with an undertow of sadness that rises the longer you watch. Its pacing is brisk and episodic, and its emotional arc follows a woman who loses control of her own image and a couple whose romance curdles under tabloid pressure. Sexual content is frequent and explicit in places, including the tape itself, and there is profanity, drug use and some ugly humiliation, but no real gore. It suits a binge over a few evenings, for viewers who like irreverent, character-driven satire about fame, privacy and the male-dominated media machine of the 1990s.
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