Hulu’s Pam & Tommy may just revolutionize fake-penis technology

polygon.com:

Every decade will now be lived twice: once by the people living through it, and then through a variety of TV specials recounting the decade’s major events.

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Everything from Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky to the OJ Simpson trial have received the miniseries treatment, but 2022 will have something very big to offer anyone recalls the 1990s: Pam & Tommy, the story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’ sex tape. Through Baywatch and Mötley Crüe, the two set the standard in celebrity coupledom. And now, the TV recreation, from I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie, is setting a new standard in fakes penises.

Anderson and Lee, who first made headlines for tying the knot after only four days of knowing each other, made tabloid history when their sex tape was stolen in 1995. The entire experience is getting the miniseries treatment, which will premiere on Hulu on Feb. 2. And while Lily James first went viral for her transformation into Anderson, now the attention is turning to Sebastian Stan’s recreation of Lee.

Stan has said in various lead up press that he hit the books, reading The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, alongside Lee’s own memoirs, Tommyland. It should be noted that Tommyland, co-written with Lee and Anthony Bozza, features an extended conversation between Lee and his own penis. It doesn’t always go well. For example, his penis claims that it has “been behind every decision you’ve ever made since second grade,” and that “no matter what you what you write in this book of yours, I promise you, people will buy it for one reason: to find out how long I really am.”

Pam & Tommy writer Robert Siegel, who was an editor of The Onion in ‘90s and later wrote the film The Wrestler, saw