Summary
Pamela and Tommy’s marriage strains under the digital release of the tape. Rand faces his sins.
This recap of the Hulu series Pam & Tommy episode 8, “Seattle,” — the finale and ending explained — contains spoilers.
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“I’m on that tape just the same as you,” Tommy repeats a couple more times for good measure in Pam & Tommy’s final episode. It’s the phrase he’s uttered since he and Pamela learned of the tape. Even after he’s seen the effect it has on his wife’s career and emotional state, he still doesn’t get it. Despite a marriage truly based on love (something Pam & Tommy’s creators place a lot of emphasis on) it’ll never work out because while he’ll put on a show of rage against those who “congratulate him” on the tape, at the end of the day he’s on their side.
By the start of this episode, neither of them are doing particularly swell. Mötley Crüe are losing headliner slots to Beck and Pamela’s career hasn’t taken off the way she hoped it would. “It has to die down,” Tommy assures her, right before he finds out that if anything, it’s blown up.
Pam & Tommy episode 8 recap – the finale and ending explained
Thanks to Seth Warshavsky, the tape is now viewable online, and once again the law sides against them. Warshavsky welcomes their case — it establishes that his streaming the tape is legal, but he doesn’t want to stop there. Seth meets with the privacy-violated couple and gives them an offer: he wants to buy the rights to the tape and put it behind a paywall.
Tommy, hotheaded as always, tells him to f- off, but their lawyer sees the appeal. Copyrighting the tape and selling those rights means it will no longer be available on any old site, and at least they’ll make some money off of it. But Pamela doesn’t even want to be paid. All she wants is for the nightmare to end, something her husband will never understand. Behind a paywall, this might all fade away.
Of course, there’s one other person who still considers himself the “rightful owner” of the tape. Ever the shithead, Rand believes that everyone else who sold the tape, including Warshavsky, is stealing from him (somehow he can’t quite grasp the irony). He’s so …….
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