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The Thing About Pam
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 8, 2022
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5.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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28% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
55
28% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
56% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
17% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
It’s The Thing About Pam’s performances from actors breaking from their established molds that make it stand out in an overpacked genre.
Ms. Zellweger, who does justice to the role, transmits a powerful aura of derangement, and does so with enough energy to make you want to reach for the antacid pills. The one flaw in the tone of the six-part work is its pervasive note of archness, ever so slight but also ever so always there. A note common in many a crime docu-drama. ... Such things aside, all in all this is a wholly compelling tale.
Even though The Thing About Pam has significant flaws, it is compulsively watchable.
Drama meets "Dateline" in The Thing About Pam, an NBC series that seeks to turn one of the newsmagazine's salacious stories into a limited series, complete with ghoulish narration by reporter Keith Morrison. Featuring Renée Zellweger tromping around under the weight of prosthetic makeup, it's a true-crime experiment that clearly wants to be the next "Fargo" and doesn't get there.
There is no shortage of plot here, but the programme-makers are too concerned with the quirky tone – they think they’ve produced the next Fargo – to have considered the pacing, or any attempt to explore Hupp’s motivations. There is no mystery or suspense, because the show tells us from the outset that Hupp is the villain.
Zellweger is the most incongruous component in a performance that prioritizes caricature, and she calls into question what exactly The Thing About Pam is trying to accomplish with this extension of its existing IP. Entertainment? Journalism? Whatever it is, Zellweger is a distraction.
Zellweger is, too often, drowned out, whether by the loudness of the production’s reshaping her body or by literal narration. ... The end result is an ebbing-away of Pam’s story in favor of a media metanarrative that’s far less compelling; the show is, in moments, more about the customs and rhythms of “Dateline” than it is about a crime story.
User Score
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Based on 11 User Ratings
5.7
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18% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
5.7
36% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
45% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
18% Negative
2 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Big Picture Co.
- Blumhouse Television
- NBC News Studios
Initial Release Date: Mar 8, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Hollywood Critics Association Television Awards
• 4 Nominations
ACCEC Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
