I can't say enough good things about the performances from Lily James and Sebastian Stan here. James in particular is completely transformed into Pamela Anderson and the results are incredible. For a lot of the time I completely forgot I wasn't watching the real her. The recreation of the 1990s is also done with skill (God, I miss the '90s).

This miniseries tells the true story (undoubtedly with a lot of embellishments and creative license) of the theft and distribution of a private sex tape featuring two celebrities. It changes tone a lot throughout, flitting between a dark comedy, crime/legal drama, earnest romance and lurid sex adventure.

These different moods are held together surprisingly well. Each episode is treated as its own thing with its own style but there's still a cohesion to it all. A lot of focus is given to the effect the scandal had on Pamela and it's all the stronger for it, treating her respectfully and clearly showing the line between what she was happy to do publicly and what was an invasion of her privacy. The romance between her and Tommy Lee is incredibly sweet but also shows the reasons why they didn't work out.

The changes in tone also cause issues though, because the pacing of this is all over the place. Episodes will completely abandon storylines and characters to focus on something else and the fact is that some of those things just aren't as interesting. The best stuff is when Pam and Tommy are on screen, and there are long segments without them. Seth Rogen certainly does a decent job but his story stays one-note a little too long, and while I started out rooting for his character that all went away as the show went on.

Content-wise this definitely isn't for everyone, and even I was getting annoyed with the amount of swearing by the second or third episode. That's a sign of extremely lazy writing for me. Most of the sexual content is contained to the first few episodes and while it doesn't go as far as the marketing may have lead everyone to believe, a no-holds-barred sequence in which Sebastian Stan has a conversation with his own cock is certainly memorable.