❮ The Thing About Pam
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Mar 8, 2022
Metascore
Mixed or Average
55
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
55
28% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
56% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
17% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Mar 8, 2022
91
It’s The Thing About Pam’s performances from actors breaking from their established molds that make it stand out in an overpacked genre.
Mar 3, 2022
80
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.
Mar 7, 2022
55
Even though The Thing About Pam has significant flaws, it is compulsively watchable.
Mar 8, 2022
50
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.
Jul 21, 2022
40
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.
Mar 8, 2022
40
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.
Mar 7, 2022
30
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
Generally Favorable
6.7
33% Positive
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Apr 30, 2022
10
Really liked this. Renee Zellweger was creepy and entertaining. Law enforcement involved n this case showed how not to investigate a crime.
Mar 10, 2022
6
For a broadcast show, it's not bad. Got the right blend of case info (let's be honest, we've seen this case on City Confidential and any number of YT True Crime channels), and humor. Everybody is great in this and they highlight what seems to be a theme with these cases; the cops/DA immediately go after the wrong person and with a blend of incompetence and expediency, miss key things about the case. Glad to see NBC pointing that out with regard to the husband.
