Disney+ is not just an SVOD platform with very popular cartoons or series. In addition to its Disney, Marvel, Star Wars or National Geographic universes, the service also has the Star universe, which is full of content intended for a more adult audience. Latest example, the Pam & Tommy series, available this week.
Is it still necessary to present Disney+? Launched in 2019 in the USA and in 2020 in France, the streaming service was thought of as THE essential platform to watch everything related directly or indirectly to Disney. With the universes of Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm, there is already plenty to do. The platform is rich with thousands of films, short films, cartoons and other documentaries for all audiences, but it targets a very general audience.
In 2021, in order to diversify its content offer, Disney+ launched Star, a new section available to all subscribers, and responsible for broadcasting more “adult” content, resulting from partnerships with major players in the industry or created for the occasion. Latest example, the mini-series Pam & Tommy, which goes back in detail on the story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, and more particularly, the scandal surrounding the disclosure of the sextape shot on the occasion of their honeymoon. honey. Back to Star, the hidden asset of Disney+.
Pam & Tommy: the event series exclusively on Star today
With Pam & Tommy, get ready to relive one of the biggest celebrity affairs of the 90s. With 8 episodes, this mini-series halfway between a criminal affair and a love story returns to the scandal of the diffusion of the sex tape of Paméla Anderson and Tommy Lee, and its consequences on the couple.
In 1995, Pamela Anderson, star of the hit series Alerte à Malibu, met Tommy Lee, drummer of the band Motley Crue. It’s love at first sight. Four days later, here they are married, gone on honeymoon, and happy owners of a tape immortalizing the ardor of their wedding night. A tape that remained warm in a safe in their Malibu home until 1996. It was stolen there by a duo of improvised burglars with a grudge against the couple, sold at auction to tabloids, and broadcast on the seen by everyone on the internet. A chain of events that plunges the couple into turmoil, makes the headlines of the press around the world and changes the face of the internet forever (just that).
To tell this colorful story, Pam & Tommy relies on a three-star cast including Seth Rogen (who everyone has already seen in The interview that kills! Where Supergrave) and Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation) as the burglars, and Sebastian Stan (Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Tommy Lee. If we are to believe the first returns, it is however the interpreter of Pamela Anderson, Lily Rose (Yesterday, Baby Driver) who bursts the screen thanks to his nuanced performance, realizing there what is undoubtedly the greatest performance of his career.
The first three episodes of Pam & Tommy are already available on Star, on Disney+. The following five episodes will be broadcast over the next few weeks, at the rate of one per week.
Thriller, horror, drama and adult animation: discover Star’s content
Launched in 2021, the Star universe of Disney+ aims to host the vast majority of “adult” content on the streaming platform, and to broadcast films and series from the various subsidiaries and television channels belonging to Disney. The list of quality films and series is as long as your arm. It includes, among others, ABC, FX, Freeform, Huli, Searchlight Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and 20th Century Studios productions. Star also allows Disney+ to broadcast Marvel and Star Wars content that does not benefit from an All Audiences rating.
A few original series to discover without further delay on Star:
- Dopesick: released late last year, boosted by an imperial Michael Keaton, Dopesick is a landmark series that adapts the bestselling book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Pharmaceutical Company that Got America Hooked. A fascinating and terrifying investigation into the creation and distribution of OxyContin, an extremely addictive opioid sold as a painkiller and prescribed to tens of thousands of patients.
- Only Murders in the Building: Carried by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, this series halfway between comedy and thriller plunges its characters passionate about miscellaneous facts into the heart of their passion. Investigating the murder of one of their neighbors, they will play apprentice detectives in search of the truth.
- The Gloaming: Released in 2020, this mystery-tinged thriller invites us to follow two detectives with troubled pasts investigating the brutal murder of a young woman. A case related to older crimes, tinged with the occult, which will make life difficult for our investigators, and will turn their lives upside down.
- Booking Dogs: This humorous series looks back on the lives of four Native American teenagers living in Oklahoma, and whose daily life is made up of petty theft and scams. Their goal in life, to accumulate enough money to go to California…
- Hit Monkey: the Marvel universe extends a little more with an animated series for adults featuring Hit Monkey, the snow monkey specialized in the assassination of assassins. A concentrate of humor and violence that will undoubtedly delight fans of unbridled action.
Star can also count on a wide range of more classic content. Series and films that have a bit of a bottle, but which remain timeless, even cult. The opportunity, for example, to (re)discover the complete Scrubs, Lost, How i Met Your Mother or 24h Chrono, to make the complete films of the Die Hard series (i.e. three films) or the Alien series (including the episodes with the Predators, yes yes).
To access Star and its exclusive content, including the Pam & Tommy series, you must have a Disney+ subscription. The latter is currently available at 8.99 euros per month, or 89.90 euros per year, a saving of 15%.