If you’ve been paying attention to recent trends and pop culture news then you have probably heard about Hulu’s new hit show, “Pam & Tommy”. The show follows a Baywatch star, Pamela Anderson, and Motley Crue drummer, Tommy Lee, through their whirlwind romance combined with a spontaneous marriage and lawsuits galore.
Pam & Tommy briefly introduces Anderson and Lee’s lives and how they came to fame. It showcases their very fast-paced relationship, going from meeting in a club to the next day being married. The two later enlist a team of contractors to build their dream house with every detail needing to suit their new lives together. With financial disagreements and misunderstandings, Tommy Lee fires the contractors on poor terms. This leads one contractor to feel he must take revenge into his own hands and steal a safe containing what he thought was just cash, but what he later discovers is that there was also a sex tape of Hollywood’s hottest new couple.
The show is intended to reenact the story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s drama-filled relationship but by doing that, it has also brought new attention to the couple and a past they wanted left behind. A source told EW that Anderson will “never, never watch this […] [n]ot even years from now. Not even the trailer” because who would want a show made on horrible experiences for the sake of others’ enjoyment, let alone reliving it on the big screen.
The source interviewing with EW includes that at one point, “the court decided it wasn’t private property because her body belonged to the world.” Instead of protecting the couple, the court deemed Pamela Anderson’s body as pubic property, as if she wasn’t the victim of a robbery and a leaked sex tape. This show is cruel not only for bringing attention back to the sex tape, but also for exploiting her pain, which ironically is what the show seems to be criticizing.
The actors for this show continue to go on press tours and take part in interviews talking about Pamela Anderson and the costume Lily James wore as if she is a fictional character that the writers made up. It seems as if the cast forgot that the “characters” they are trying to depict are human beings. Everyone taking part in the Hulu mini-series was fully aware of Pamela Anderson’s objection of the show as a source close to Anderson said that “[i]t is shocking that this series is allowed to happen without her approval.” As a result of the show, Anderson is now in the process of creating her own documentary that includes her truth and no one else’s spin on her experiences.