Pam & Tommy (Disney+)
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It’s odd to think of the Disney+ series Pam & Tommy as a period piece, but as it’s set in the 1990s, that’s what it is. Based on an article by Amanda Chicago Lewis, it dramatises the fallout from the sex tape stolen from Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee and Playboy model/Baywatch actor Pamela Anderson, and also serves as a time capsule of the dawn of internet porn and the sexual mores of the era. These days, would Anderson be slut-shamed on a global level? Mind you, just as she didn’t consent to the release of the tape (a hedonistic sex marathon believed to generate $77m), nor did she give her blessing to this series, which is something to consider as the eight episodes unfold. The tone verges on hyperreal – at one point Lee’s penis talks, bobbing away like a CGI-uncooked sausage – but the people are real.
