what is going on all my tv fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files ellie
back again with a brand new tv review and today we will be discussing the first three episodes of the
brand new biographical drama dark comedy by the name of pam and tommy which will be premiering his
first three episodes on february 2nd now i got the chance to check it out early courtesy of the fine
folks over at hulu and today i will be giving you all my thoughts on the first three episodes we'll
let you know if it's worth checking out in this spoiler-free review before we get into it all make
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but more importantly have you seen the tape and jokes aside were you excited for this series and
of course once you sat down and watched all three episodes what do you think about them
what was your favorite episode of three what'd you think about the performances your thoughts on the
narrative are you invested in the story what were some things that didn't work for you all and will
you be watching this on a week to week basis let's talk about it all in the comments below
so to answer my own question for you all i haven't seen the tape in its entirety but i i've seen some
clips when i got a little bit older in age because when the tape came out i was a little kid i didn't
know about it but the thing that kind of piqued my interest with the show was i want to kind of know
okay they say any publicity is good publicity did they put it out themselves you know was it a
scam who did it you know how did this affect their career so that kind of intrigued me
but also seeing the talent behind this when i saw sebastian stan and lily james looking identical to
pam and tommy i was like okay yes let's check it out and then you round out the cast with
seth rogen you have nick offerman you have you know greg gillespie who i'm a fan of his work i
tonya cinderella the dude's a great director he's directing all eight episodes of this mini series
i'm here for where i think about the first three episodes well let's get into it so
if you all that aren't too familiar with this story just a brief synopsis here pam and tommy
depicts the marriage between pamela anderson and tommy lee in the release of their infamous
unauthorized sex tape which was recorded privately during their honeymoon so let's get into episode
one which the synopsis episode one reads any man rad gothir seeks revenge on a celebrity
client who stiffs him so in this first episode it is literally the rand gothir backstory right
100 of the episode gives you the point of view of his thoughts on how things shook up so he is a
man that studies religion but he's also a handyman and he gets hired by tommy lee to do this contract
work and let's just say tommy lee isn't the best person he ultimately fires him from the job and
that's kind of the path that rand gets on in this first episode oh i want to get the celebrity back
i want to get revenge on him and you see how the episode plays out once you see it in regards to
how he goes about getting that revenge so i believe the structuring of this first episode
was to put you in the shoes of ran and give you kind of that sympathy card because outside without
knowing this person i didn't know anything about who ran was prior to this first episode you would
just see the headline and think that person is despicable there are they're in it for money
they're just a terrible person through and through but seeing a little bit of his backstory we see a
little bit of his childhood we see that he's kind of a pushover in a certain state you kind of feel
bad for the character by no means does it give him the right to do what he ultimately did
to putting out their privacy to the public for the world to see but you kind of get an understanding
of his point of view and how he thought that what he did was the best means to get revenge from
not getting paid from timely because he put a lot of money into this contract work that ended
up not working out for him so it's really kind of interesting to see it from that point of view
and i think that's why you bring in an actor like seth rogen because i think for the most part i'll
just speak for myself i like seth rogen i like him in films and this is my first time really seeing
him on tv and i think he's just a likable guy so again despicable person this rant character but
you have someone like seth roger to play him so you can somewhat not root for them but kind of
understand where that character is coming from so that's kind of really the first episode there
and you definitely i mentioned who's the director of these episodes greg gillespie you get those i
tonya vibes whether it's you know how they handle the drama how they handle some of the comedic
beats and it kind of plays in that same genre and you don't get much of pam in this episode she pops
up every now and then you get more of tommy in this first episode than you do pam but again
it's mostly from rand's perspective and as far as first episodes go if i'm being honest it was okay
it didn't really wow me it didn't blow me away but i will say once nick altman's character gets
involved into the storyline he he added a little bit more energy and gave me a little bit more than
what i was looking for in the series so he added a lot more dimensions and he was only in it for 10
minutes and i'm a big nick offerman fan so as far as episode ones go as far as premiere episodes go
it didn't blow my socks off it wasn't the best thing that i've seen a long time but i will say
it intrigued me right it peaked my interest but it wasn't until episode 2 which the episode synopsis
reads pamela anderson and tommy lee meet get high and get married all in four days so this was the
episode i i think and this was smart on hulu to release the first three episodes but i think
it would have been smarter on the creators to have episode two be episode one because this
was the episode i was looking for this is the pam and tommy story it focuses on them like a hundred
percent of this episode but more in particularly we get more of pam's perspective we get to see
lily james and the performance for her i'll talk about her a little bit more towards the end but
she was absolutely fantastic but her as pam kind of seen where she's at in this point in her career
and where she was trying to go and how she was trying to be a person to kind of maybe not be in
relationship with bad boys until tommy gets into the picture and he literally comes out of nowhere
how they meet is very kind of just like it just happened to be at the same place so coincidence
how they kind of came to be but it's in this episode where we get to see their first encounters
we get to see them hook up for the first time and not in the way you would imagine when you
see this second episode and we see the their relationship in my point of view is it was really
kind of thrust from attraction and less more so than it was like actual genuine love but they
they do some things a little bit later that we'll talk about without getting to the details but
it's within this moment that again four days of partying taking baths and just really kind of
getting to know the celebrity of that particular character we meet tommy's very close friend and
when you see the episode you know what i'm talking about there but it's in this second episode that
you kind of get a sense of the influence that tommy had on pam and i'm talking about the bad
influence on some decisions that she makes and this relationship is starting to develop and is
not the best boyfriend for pam at this time in her life and again after four days of the drugs and
the partying and hanging out they agree to marry each other and it's so interesting once this kind
of episode gets into the really good stuff here is after they leave there they met at cancun they
go back home to their lives they realize oh man we're married now we have to kind of make
our several celebrity lives kind of be one now and this is where they're trying to try to find some
things that they have in common and you know they have to embrace each other and who's going to move
into whose house the paparazzi gets involved and at this point in their careers you know monteney
crew wasn't as famous as they were in the 80s and pam's career is like she's way more famous
at this point in career than tommy so it's kind of like seeing that dynamic that power dynamic
between those two and what i really appreciate about the second episode was spending time with
pam and tommy this is what i want to see from the show and this is what the second episode gave me
and again the performances were really kind of stand out and in this second episode we see how
the camcorder became a part of the relationship so again second episode to me should have been
the first episode but at least it was a better episode than the first one which again if i'm a
i'm a tv watcher i watch a lot of tv i'm a type of person that likes that the show gets better
as it goes on versus like blowing me off you know getting me super excited after the first episode
and then kind of losing momentum i like it the other way around so i'm like okay episode two
much better than the second episode but let's get into my thoughts on the third episode which reads
rand teams up with an old porn world associate to shop the tape around the town now this is where
we get back to nick offerman and we get into ran uh seth rogen's character and they're trying to
sell the tape but they're not having any luck because people are like we're not about to put
this out there without the release of pam and tommy and this is where we meet taylor schilling
who plays erica who is someone that introduces rand to the porn industry but also she is the one
that's somewhat responsible for rand's glorious path to this tape but it's in the episode the
big thing that we get here is the introduction to the internet and the internet taking off and the
idea that rand comes up with to have a website to sell the tape anonymously so you can't trace
who put this tape out there and this is where we see the legend dice clay makes his appearance and
he's the one that kind of helps them out with the distribution of this tape and getting some money
to kind of fund it to hit the internet so all that stuff to me was like oh this is really interesting
again going back to my kind of on the fence of the first episode the second episode giving me pam and
tommy third episode giving me more of the minutia the details of how the tape ended up going out
there was like this is the stuff i was waiting for and it's in this episode too going back to seeing
both of the main plots coming to the the main of the episode sharing half the time with rand and
sharing the other half with pam and tommy this is where pam and tommy continue to learn about
each other and they want to have a kid now and pam is it she's wanting to expand her role on baywatch
as cj but also she wants to be a more well-known actress and we kind of get the beginnings of the
classic cinema bob wire so and if you all don't know about that film it is not good and it bombed
at the box office but going back to the episode here we see that tommy really might not be the
a-hole that he was in episode one and kind of the more shallow person that we saw in episode two
he takes more interest in his wife's work and he tells her more about where he comes from his
family and we kind of see that they're kind of vibing so it might not be all lush driven they
might actually have feelings for each other because they're telling each other they love
each other throughout the first three episodes but you're like no way you love this person after four
days but hey they're starting to like each other they're starting to learn more about each other
and we're seeing more of the incredible acting by lily james and by the way i'm going to talk about
the acting later on sebastian stanton is great as well but it's lily james that is just fantastic
seeing her as pam anderson taking more control of her life because she at this point in her career
she's a people pleaser so it's interesting to see how this episode shows you she's starting to make
a career change she's starting to take more charge of her career and as that's going down this tape
that's going to change her career is starting to come out so i like the way the third episode
kind of wraps things up and going back to just my thoughts on the acting i mentioned a couple
times this review lily james is fantastic in the first three episodes again you get more of her
in a second and definitely in the third she's a standout to me sebastian stan is fantastic i
have seen like clips of tommy lee i've seen some of the videos of of uh you know motley crue so
i think he definitely kind of captures who tommy lee was at that point in his career
and you know like i mentioned seth rogen is really good in his role i think nick offerman who's in
this show is great and everyone's doing a great job but again lily james she's not playing around
she's coming for that emmy once you all see this you'll definitely know what i'm talking about so
again i thought the most engaging parts to me was pamela anderson's plot i thought that the whole
distribution side of how the tape went out was the most intriguing things for me but outside of that
everything else was just fine you know like i said this is nothing this isn't breaking new
ground this isn't in my opinion stop what you're doing watch the show immediately
but like i said in the day i enjoyed the first three episodes episode two was better than
uh you know one episode three was better than one but i think episode two to me was like okay this
is what i was looking for and it's something that i'm invested in so far but that's just my
thoughts i want to know your thoughts again pam and tommy definitely does have some good acting
some fascinating character stuff and kind of getting that backstory of what went down is
really intriguing to me so let me know your pros your cons will you watch this on a weekly basis
do you want me to cover this on a week-to-week basis you know i'm a p i'm like pam anderson
in a certain extent i'm a people pleaser i love you all i appreciate this community
that we're building here so if you want me to cover this on a week to week basis let me know
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