- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 8, 2022
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It’s The Thing About Pam’s performances from actors breaking from their established molds that make it stand out in an overpacked genre.
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Even if you've never watched Dateline NBC—but more especially if you have—NBC's miniseries The Thing About Pam is irresistibly entertaining.
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At first, the show comes on a little strong with the whimsy. ... But Pam settles into a spirit of wry satire as it chronicles the grimly comical law enforcement ineptitude and/or cavalier disregard for the truth that allowed Pam to elude capture for so long.
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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.
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There are times when I almost had to take out an umbrella to shield myself from the steady downpour of condescension permeating the series — e.g., when Pam adds several pumps of cherry syrup into her Enormous Gulp cup of soda, because, you know, small towns — but on the whole, “The Thing About Pam” manages to be both amusing and appalling, eccentric and shocking.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 6
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Mixed: 4 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Apr 30, 2022Really liked this. Renee Zellweger was creepy and entertaining. Law enforcement involved n this case showed how not to investigate a crime.
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Mar 10, 2022