Who knew that someone who strolled around his house in his underwear would care so deeply about the type of coffee grounds he used in his coffee?
Simply based on the topic itself as well as the promotion prior to the series, it became a bit tough to tell if Pam & Tommy would be a poorly-done take on the events or if it was capable of being something more. The series kicks things off at Tommy Lee's estate, a bountiful Malibu property that's partially under construction as the bedroom is being completely renovated. The construction staff is helmed by contractor Lonnie (Larry Brown), who works closely with Rand, a carpenter (Seth Rogen).
A laid-back-seeming yet demanding client, Lee wanders around his home—usually in his animal-printed underwear—and yells out various orders to the crew. I mean, they're very simple demands, after all, like casually moving a built-in, custom wooden bed frame halfway across the room and constructing a massive water bed after the first idea is trashed. When Lee finally decides to fire the crew for no real reason and refuses to pay them, it's the last straw for Rand, who has attempted to keep up with every last outrageous demand.
After months of excessive planning, Rand breaks into Lee's home and steals quite a few things to make up for the money he lost. However, he accidentally takes something that ends up being worth more than everything else that he stole: Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape. At first, he doesn't know what to do with it, but he eventually decides to hit up his friend, Uncle Miltie (Nick Offerman), a director of pornography, and the two devise a plan to sell the tape.
As for the main two subjects of the series, Lily James fully transforms herself into Anderson, practically unrecognizable in her portrayal of the actress. Sebastian Stan is an unhinged Lee—everything you'd want and expect him to be on the screen. Painted with a façade of angry-looking tattoos and glittered with piercings, everything about him screams the classical villain. Though tattoos are forever, they slowly drift into the background with each episode, revealing that they're really just a veneer of the real Lee.