Pam & Tommy2022

The show performs an impressive turn around the halfway mark, reeling us into the personal lives of the people at the center of the scandal and telling an even stronger story about celebrity, the paper-thin divide between publicity and privacy, and what happens when human intimacy is swallowed up by glossy headlines.

The first episode is top notch storytelling. The illusion that the series is actually not going to focus on a couple of hicky celebrities is quite a promise. Then there is episode 2, and I couldn't care less about Pamela and Tommy Lee.

Pam & Tommy is far more than a sniveling, pervy time machine revisiting a salacious sex scandal that’s been mocked for decades. But the genius is that it is also that: sniveling, pervy, and canny about the scandal and the mockery that piqued all of our attention in the first place.