Pam and Tommy
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Pam & Tommy, which is sort of a television biopic with a faster!
In 1995, Pamela Anderson was the bombshell blonde ofBaywatchand aPlayboyvet.
In 2022, Anderson isa 54-year-old woman making a home-reno showfor HGTV Canada.
The similarities extend beyond casting Sebastian Stan as a dirtbag ex-husband.
The closest it comes, I think, is in a brief opening sequence.
Jay Leno asks his guest whats it like to have a private sex tape in wide circulation.
Pamela repeats, moving her mouth around elaborately like shes having trouble making his stupid words come out.
Shes mesmeric.What do you think its like, Jay?
We dont find out.
Instead, we cut to a year earlier.
Rands not just any carpenter.
Rand is a carpenterslashamateur theologian, not entirely unlike Jesus, I suppose.
Unexpectedly, the episode hews closest to Rand, taking pains to emphasize how pitifully human he is.
We follow Rand out the mansion gates and back to his shithole apartment littered with unpaid bills.
Hes a carpenter who sleeps on a mattress on the floor in Van Nuys.
Just say its standard practice to pay half the construction costs upfront and invoice the man!
Rand may not know much, but hes seen more than a few past-due notices.
Things quickly go from bad to catastrophic, as they must when someone this hapless is involved.
Lonnies fired, too.
Rand suggests that they sue, but the legal fees could drain them both.
His dad called him worthless then, and Tommy thinks hes worthless now.
Thats okay because Rand is no longer looking to simply collect lost wages.
This is a crusade against evil.
Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the sex tape, even if they have to steal it.
To be clear, Rand doesnt know theres a tape in the safe.
Rand, so clumsy at daily life, dedicates himself to the heist.
Reasonably, Lonnie declines to join him in this comic book caper.
He pawns what he can and pays off his debts.
This is about divine justice.
Its only the third time we hear her voice across the entire first episode.
I thought about it so much I Googled Andersons appearances on Jay Leno and watched what I could find.
In real life, Andersons not squirmy and speechless.
She holds one manicured finger to her chin, and she looks sad.
