The actor is little more than a grotesque cartoon in this clunky true-crime comedy drama – which is smugly happy to exploit the murder it’s based on
The actor is little more than a grotesque cartoon in this tacky true-crime comedy drama – which is smugly happy to exploit the murder it’s based onNightmarishly toxic … Renée Zellweger in The Thing About Pam.omething is off from the start in The Thing About Pam , a true-crime comedy drama based on a murder that took place in Troy, Missouri in 2011. Alarm bells ring within the opening seconds of the first episode, because The Thing About Pam is cursed with an ironic, singsong narrator.
Soon we have met our antihero Pam Hupp, a real-estate agent with a Martha Stewart bob and trouser suit, whose manic TV ads for her business confirm that she is a nightmarishly toxic Wasp, a cauldron of passive aggression and beady-eyed acquisitiveness. Behind some squishy prosthetics – Pam has the complexion of a woman on an all-pastry diet – we can make out the features of.
The Thing About Pam’s six episodes allege that Hupp manufactured that injustice but that she was eventually exposed. First, though, we establish how she poked her fingers into every pie in Troy, Missouri, by watching her stroll into a convenience store to pick up a big plastic cup of DayGlo soda. She and the cashier know each other by name; a passing police officer is greeted by Pam with some folksy, mumsy flirting.
In the main, though, it’s a show about stupid little people in a tacky, nondescript town. It may well be that everyone involved in the Faria case was genuinely as naive as they seem, but it creates unrewarding drama and unsophisticated comedy: the scenes concerning local law enforcement devolve into a clunky workplace sitcom where recently appointed district attorney Leah Askey , a dreadful person who is floundering professionally, is frustrated by the even dippier cops.
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