The latest episode of Pam & Tommy upped the dramatics and offered a major tonal shift. Lily James' portrayal of Pamela Anderson stole the screen in every scene, not only because of her devastating portrayal of Pamela during the tragic time in her life, but also due to her pulling main focus for a majority of the episode.
This biographical series has gotten under the skin of a few notable people, including Anderson, herself. Last week's episode, titled “Uncle Jim and Aunt Susie in Duluth," chronicled the downfall of Tommy Lee's Mötley Crüe amid the rise of women-led rock bands and the «Semi-Charmed Life» rockers Third Eye Blind. It received comments from Third Eye Blind's leading man Stephan Jenkins and the Mötley Crüe frontman John Corabi. Both stated that the hostile interaction shown between the two bands in the series was entirely fictional. Jenkins got some backhanded jabs at the notorious band, telling Variety, «Mötley Crüe and I’ve never been in the same studio. I recorded my whole first album in Northern California. So we were across the state from each other at the very least… I had never, in fact, listened to Mötley Crüe. I never even heard them.»
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Corabi, however, went to higher grounds defending the reputation of his bandmate, Lee. The musician took to Facebook to say that the entire series is «full of bulls***.» He went on to express, «I can honestly say about 98% of this 'fictional' take on T&P's life is criminal. I shared 5 years of my life with Tommy and although it was at times insanity it's sooooo overblown in this s**t they call TV entertainment! Tommy never walked around in a Speedo, didn't act at all the way they portray him, and now I see that Third Eye Blind 'bumps' us from
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