The series
Pam & Tommy
(four episodes released in Spain) is a journey to a very specific moment in recent history, the period from 1993 to 1996. It is a journey to the time of the websites in Geocities and the rise of porn on home video.
And to contextualize the motivation of the character (played by Seth Rogen) that filters the video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
No need to have read
Dirty Rags
to see the ilk to which the Mötley Crüe drummer belongs;
a few minutes of footage are enough to wish a grand piano would fall on your head.
The justice of the cartoon world, unfortunately, does not work in real life.
The disgruntled operator's revenge claimed a different victim than Tommy Lee, because he targeted Pamela Anderson, who had already been a
playmate
.
In parallel we hear echoes about the documentary
Secrets of Playboy
, still without a release date in Spain.
Hugh Hefner has been exposed as a sadistic and misogynistic manipulator.
The abuse of power is as old as humanity.
And while the monster that creates fame and power is fascinating, I miss looking at its creators, at the faint-hearted and flattering people who applaud every crumb thrown by the powerful, who excuse each and every one of their felonies, even thanking the kicks.
A look at those squires whose voices even change when they alter the seats of an event to accommodate the feudal lord, or when they see how the satrap on duty approves the antics of some act.
Tommy Lee is an unpresentable Kafre.
Hugh Hefner, it seems, was a pimp and rapist before he was a publisher.
But the balls… those are the real villains.
Let's see if one day someone dares to make a documentary about waiters.
The day they speak, they are always the first to pay the price... That day is going to be a lot of fun.
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