The eight-part Hulu series Pam & Tommy came to an end this week with a final episode that, much like the others, took place in a slightly different universe than our own. In this one, Mötley Crüe’s Generation Swine came out in June 1996 instead of June 1997, they promoted it with a show in the Tower Records parking lot featuring a song nowhere to be found in the band’s actual catalog, and they were bumped from a live MTV event to make room for Beck.
What the series did get right is that Generation Swine was a commercial dud that wound up in cutout bins, and that the Pam-Tommy sex tape overshadowed everything that either tried to do during this time. Movie Tommy was initially furious with strangers who congratulated him on the sex tape, but he receives some wisdom from movie Nikki Sixx that changes his mind. “I don’t know,” he tells him after Tommy nearly punches out a guy…
