Reframing of the couple's sex tape saga has mixed results, but the series' treatment of culture at the dawn of the internet is stupidly entertaining.
), turned here into a stupidly entertaining trip down memory lane. In this eight-episode series, directed in part by Craig Gillespie , the 1990s’ queen and king of excess scramble to cope with the pressure and keep up with changing times as their intimate home video becomes the World Wide Web’s first viral celebrity sex romp.A&E’s docuseries promises to shatter the “fable” that fueled an empire. But creative failings mean its bombshells add up to less than they should.
The story starts in 1995, when construction worker Rand Gauthier is stiffed by Lee over work done at the couple’s Malibu mansion. Seeking payback, Gauthier breaks into the garage and steals a safe. Its contents make history when Gauthier figures out an ingenious new way to sell the recording without getting a release from Lee and Anderson: He sets up a shop online, selling the video for $59.99.
Tastes were also evolving and “Pam & Tommy” has plenty of fun with the generational changing of the guard, when the 1980s bleach-blond-babe look and L.A.’s big-hair metal was usurped by deadpan “Daria” and scrappy Seattle grunge rock. When Mötley Crüe shows up to the studio to record, they naturally go to the big room, Studio A, but it’s already taken.
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