Well, it's possible that the series editorialized the blockbuster potential that Barb Wire had, but-based on my constant Googling of it whenever it's mentioned on Pam & Tommy-I think it never found a place in the action movie zeitgeist because it's just… not Good, not even good bad movie good. When Pam goes to meet with her publicist Gail (Mozhan Marnò) for the first time, she's shown the promotional material for it and told it's "the studio's number one priority for spring." I'm sorry, what? How could I have never heard of a big-budget action movie that was apparently so big that Pam's publicist was willing to live and breathe "24/7 Barb Wire?" I was especially curious because, I-again, a youth-have only ever associated Anderson with Baywatch. Okay, but literally what is the Pamela Anderson movie Barb Wire?Įpisode 3, "Jane Fonda," is when I, a youth, learned that Barb Wire is a real movie.
Below, I ry to work through every question I have about Barb Wire. With every mention of the movie that Anderson (James) was trying to promote in '96 when the sex tape was becoming more infamous, with every publicity team meeting she has or press tour she goes on, I find myself rattled by its sheer existence and how it has somehow disappeared into mid-'90s oblivion along with Anderson's (honestly incredible) voluminous up-do. Nothing has confused me and sent me down more Wikipedia rabbit holes than anything in the series like Barb Wire has. That being said, a lot of Pam & Tommy has been new and fascinating to me-but there's one part in particular that I can't stop thinking about. I didn't need to look to the past for more. I was born in 1996 after all, which is the focus of much of the series, and I suppose growing up in the aughts, I was already inundated with enough tabloid scandals. While I would call myself a pop culture obsessive, most of the events in Pam & Tommy escaped my pop culture literacy.
The series shows the couple played by Lily James and Sebastian Stan throwing back shots for the first time to the Eurodance classic "Be My Lover," there's cameos of Third Eye Blind and Jay Leno that play out like a '90s who's-who, and any mention of "the world wide web" is delivered in a way that invites laughter. But its pop culture ephemera is what gives the series an element of fun (as it's ultimately about one of the many instances that the media and society wronged and misjudged a woman in the spotlight). That's by default, of course, as the show created by Robert Siegel chronicles the 1995 theft of Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee's sex tape, and the scandal and trauma that followed. Hulu's Pam & Tommy is like a '90s nostalgia time capsule.
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