It’s meant to be tongue-in-cheek but instead it comes across as self-congratulatory, and for a UK audience who are unlikely to know who he is, it makes the whole thing feel weirdly parodic.
And this becomes a running problem with the show: is this meant to be funny? Because if it is then they’ve forgotten to put any jokes in and yet the whole tone feels off.
Are we meant to be laughing at Pam and her oversized Big Gulp as she gets to gurning through her next interaction? Are the bumbling cops too stupid to realise the very obvious truth under their noses meant to be something we roll our eyes at and chuckle away?
All this matters because this is a real story of a murdered woman whose family had their lives torn apart – the very least you can do is treat the death of someone you document with a modicum of respect.
The Thing About Pam comes across as glib, almost gleeful, at every missed clue and act of bad policing, like this is a fictional drama and not something that actually happened which we should be angry about.
That, if you ask me, is the real true crime.
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