Tag: Pam & Tommy
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Dumb Money Director Witnessed An Intense Experience With The Meme Stock Saga
During the pandemic, a few key events were truly collective experiences as there was little else to do but observe what was happening. One of the biggest examples was the GameStop stock situation, which sent Wall Street into a frenzy and received global news coverage for weeks on end. The whole thing has now been…
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Seth Rogen’s ‘Platonic’ Costumes Are Peak Eastside L.A.
Costume designer Kameron Lennox has spent the last few years in the ’80s (Apple TV+’s “Physical”) and the ’90s (Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy”). But her work on Apple TV+’s 10-episode comedy “Platonic” is joyously, hilariously now.Starring Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen, “Platonic” finds estranged best friends Sylvia (Byrne) and Will (Rogen) falling back into their…
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‘Pamela, a Love Story’ Makes ‘Pam & Tommy’ Unwatchable
Pamela, a love story is an intimate and humanizing portrait of actor, model, and activist Pamela Anderson. She faced exploitation in the ’90s for the infamous stolen sex tape of her and Tommy Lee, and faced the same kind of torment again in 2022 when Hulu released Pam & Tommy. After hearing Anderson’s side of…
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New ‘Great Expectations’ Trailer: A New Adaptation Of Dickens’ Novel With Olivia Colman & Fionn Whitehead Hits Hulu On March 26
Hulu had a slew of critically acclaimed TV series last year, like “The Dropout,” “Pam & Tommy,” and “Fleishman Is In Trouble.” So what will its big hits of 2023 be? “Great Expectations” may be one of them, considering Olivia Colman headlines the cast.Read More: ‘Great Expectations’ Trailer: Olivia Colman & Fionn Whitehead Star In…
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Golden Globes Announce New TV Categories and Awards Timeline
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has divided the Golden Globes categories for supporting actor and supporting actress in a series, miniseries or television movie.These four new categories will replace the previous supporting actor and actress TV categories :Best supporting actor in a television series (musical/comedy or drama)Best supporting actress in a television series (musical/comedy or…
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The Pam & Tommy Finale Reaches The Limits Of Its Access
The sensational, empathetic, totally bonkers experiment that is “Pam & Tommy” comes to a close this week with a bittersweet episode that chooses not to look directly at the violent dissolution of the central couple’s relationship. Instead, “Pam & Tommy” zooms in on one of its last gasps, a failed getaway that in different circumstances…
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Love Is A Losing Battle In The Latest Pam & Tommy
With this week’s penultimate episode, the saga of “Pam & Tommy” seems to finally be winding down. The show has made its way back to the Jay Leno interview that started the series, and the Penthouse lawsuit at its center has gone up in smoke — as has the money Tommy owes Rand. “Destroyer of…
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Pam & Tommy Shows Just How Awful The Media Was To Women In The ’90s
Episode 1 of “Pam & Tommy” opens with a fictionalized version of an interview between longtime late night host Jay Leno and “Baywatch” alumna Pamela Anderson. The scene struck me as being particularly sleazy, and I thought to myself, “there’s no way a respected, mainstream television host would get away with that behavior today.”Being the…
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Lawsuits And Late Night Take Over The Latest Pam & Tommy
After last week’s super-personal episode of “Pam & Tommy,” this week’s pulls back to take a more informational look at the sex tape scandal. Seth Rogen’s Rand Gauthier is gone entirely for the time being, while new characters — including Penthouse head honcho Bob Guccione — are introduced. This episode reminds me less of “Pam…
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The New Episode Of Pam & Tommy Gets Up Close And Personal
Episode four of “Pam & Tommy,” titled “The Master Beta,” finally starts to dig at the sense of pain and invasiveness that rocked this couple’s world in 1996. The internet has been afire this past week with conversations about whether or not “Pam & Tommy” should even exist — Anderson, after all, did not respond…