As Tommy Lee, Stan is brash, loud, wild, a rocker-meets-himbo with a possible case of Peter Pan syndrome. Since the first images of them in character were released last year, it remained to be seen whether Lily James and Sebastian Stan would be able to do more than bear an impressive resemblance to the celebrities they're inhabiting - and while their performances could have very easily veered into caricature, there's enough complexity in both actors' portrayals to not just anchor the miniseries but the relationship we need to believe in for this narrative to hit hardest.
While the marketing leading up to its release would have you believe that this is more of the same from the director, a dark comedy laden with irreverence, energizing needle drops, and lots of middle fingers, the show performs an impressive turn around the halfway mark, reeling us into the personal lives of the people at the center of the scandal and telling an even stronger story about celebrity, the paper-thin divide between publicity and privacy, and what happens when human intimacy is swallowed up by glossy headlines.
On the heels of his 2017 film I, Tonya, Craig Gillespie is tackling yet another notorious blonde who wound up making headlines in the upcoming Hulu limited series Pam & Tommy. From Ryan Murphy's unevenly successful effort to tackle the most well-known White House affair in last year's Impeachment: American Crime Story (an attempt that certainly benefited from Monica Lewinsky's input during the production) to The New York Times Presents' documentary Finding Britney Spears (which bared the truth of the beloved pop star's mental health struggles playing out in the limelight and the media's culpability in the process), said retrospectives infuse their famous subjects with more humanity, afford them with the complexity they initially deserved, and don't necessarily cast judgment on them in the process. These revisits do more than provide a second look they offer up a deeper consideration to those involved, many of them women, who were harshly lambasted in the public eye for perceived transgressions - and in many instances, the treatment they received was far from warranted.
There's been an intriguing trend cropping up in television and film lately, one embedded in the desire to backtrack to some of the most notorious celebrity scandals within the last several decades and examine them with a more distanced perspective.
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