And while the later episodes offer us plenty of feminist monologues from Pam about how she has spent her career as a sex object, the camera nonetheless ogles Lily James’ prosthetic Pamela Anderson body just as much as the viewers they show downloading her sex tape at home. I have written about how Tommy Lee’s animatronic penis got more lines, interiority, and perspective than the character of Pamela Anderson (Lily James) does in the beginning of the limited series. ![]() But the way Minx deals with nudity and consent feels new and different from the expectation that naked people, and especially naked women, are there to be ogled - while Pam & Tommy does nothing but reinforce that idea. I’m loath to call the way the Minx handles male nudity a “female gaze” - a gender-essentialist alternative that ignores the fact that there are more than two genders, and that a male centerfold appeals to more than just women. It’s about shifting power dynamics, and gender reparations.” In what functions as a topic sentence for Minx, Joyce exclaims about the magazine: “Our penis is for political purposes. Between the show’s casual, unceremonious approach to showing this body part and the sheer number of penises shown on screen, Minx engages in a kind of penis immersion therapy - and it works. Despite their nudity, no one at the casting call is viewed through a particularly sexualized lens - in fact, I would argue that they’re treated as unseriously as possible, with one model even doing the “helicopter” to prove it (if you’re going to google it, please know it’s NSFW). Model after model comes in to try out, and with them, we see penises march across the screen. ![]() Their first step is choosing a centerfold: And thus, the parade of penises begins. Jake Johnson, Ophelia Lovibond in ‘Minx’ Katrina Marcinowski/HBO Max. Pam & Tommy isn’t the only recent show to dabble in full-frontal male nudity ( Euphoria and And Just Like That definitely went there too), but it wasn’t until I saw HBO Max’s Minxand their perspective on showing penises that I realized why Pam & Tommy felt so empty and icky at its core, even with far less nudity than Minx. Where Pam & Tommy stubbornly upholds the male gaze of the system it claims to decry, the one that slut-shamed Anderson and cheered on Lee when their tape was first stolen and leaked in the 1990s, Minx genuinely, methodically subverts it. And then: there was the show’s penis obsession, from porn shoots to Tommy Lee’s much-discussed animatronic penis voiced by Jason Mantzoukas. ![]() The fact that Lee and Anderson’s real-life relationship ended in domestic abuse didn’t make it any easier to stomach the romantic retelling of their love. ![]() The fact that the real Pamela Anderson wanted nothing to do with the show made it impossible not to view the series as inherently exploitative, rehashing a story about someone who seems not to want their story re-told. 2, Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, about the theft of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape (and their love story that led up to it), seemed poised to be the most salacious show on TV this year for almost too many reasons to count. If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission.ĭebuting on Feb.
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