Pam & Tommy
Drilling and Pounding
TV Flash files “Drilling and Pounding” as a desk essential hour — Pam & Tommy (2022) on Hulu, season 1, episode 1, aired 2022-02-02, 47 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 8 in the Pam & Tommy guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2022-02-02 (47 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “I Love You, Tommy” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Drilling and Pounding”. Drilling and Pounding as the grimy-nineties door: Lily James and Sebastian Stan, stolen-tape saga opening as tragedy-comedy, tabloids already the other thief.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Handyman Rand Gauthier seeks revenge on the celebrity client who stiffs him.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Drilling and Pounding sit in the Pam & Tommy guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 8 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Pam & Tommy S01E01 air?
Drilling and Pounding aired 2022-02-02 and is listed at 47 minutes.
Is it a limited series?
Yes, 2022. Stolen-tape saga as a complete tragedy-comedy, not an open tabloid franchise.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The stolen-tape saga as grimy nineties Hollywood tragedy-comedy. Lily James and Sebastian Stan in a limited series that reopened consent, tabloids, and who gets to own a body on video. Watch for prosthetic discourse, transformation craft, and a sex-tape origin story uglier — and funnier — than the punchline you think you remember.
The first cut is a tape that is already a crime. Robert Siegel's Pam & Tommy, 2022 on Hulu, stars Lily James as Pamela Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee, with Seth Rogen as Rand Gauthier, in the stolen-tape saga as grimy nineties Hollywood tragedy-comedy. A contractor steals a private tape and detonates two celebrities' lives. Consent, tabloids, and who gets to own a body on video, reopened as prestige. Uglier — and funnier — than the punchline you think you remember. Eight episodes, one limited series.…
Filed against
- Lily James as Pamela Anderson
Lily James walks into a stolen-tape nightmare as Pamela Anderson on Pam & Tommy — nineties Hollywood as grimy tragedy-comedy, consent as the argument, a body on video as the plot the tabloids already sold. Transformation craft under the…
- Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee
Sebastian Stan's Tommy Lee turned Pam & Tommy into grimy nineties Hollywood tragedy-comedy — the stolen-tape saga, Lily James across the frame, a limited series that reopened consent, tabloids, and who gets to own a body on video.…
- Seth Rogen as Rand Gauthier
Seth Rogen’s Ken Miller made Freaks and Geeks’ burnout table feel like a real lunch period — 1990s catalog authenticity, then The Studio and Pam & Tommy stretching the chuckle into Hollywood roast and nineties tabloid grimace. TV Flash…