NBC has released a new trailer of TV limited series, “The Thing about Pam.”Renée Zellweger made an incredible transformation, when she put on twenty-five pounds to play in “Bridget Jones’s Diary” series, the two-time Academy Award winner gained her weight in order to star in a project for her upcoming NBC limited series The Thing About Pam. Based on the Dateline podcast with the same name, the series centers around a brutal murder that revealed extremely dark schemes perpetrated by an ordinary woman called Pam Hupp (Zellweger).
The Thing About Pam is adapted for television by Jenny Klein, who has written for Netflix’s The Witcher, Marvel’s Jessica Jones. Klein also serves as showrunner for the limited series.
Aside from Zellweger, The Thing About Pam also stars Judy Greer as Leah Askey (the fierce prosecutor), Glenn Fleshler as Russ Faria (the husband of the victim who was wrongfully convicted), Josh Duhamel as Joel Schwartz (Russ’s defense attorney), Sean Bridgers as Mark Hupp (Pam’s husband), and Mac Brandt as McCarrick, a detective assigned to investigate the murder of Betsy Faria.
Synopsis : NBC’s “The Thing About Pam” is based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband Russ’ conviction, although he insisted he didn’t kill her. He was later exonerated. This brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
A thorough examination of the scheme was featured on several episodes of “Dateline NBC,” becoming one of the most popular topics to ever air on the hit franchise.
It also became the subject of a popular 2019 podcast, “The Thing About Pam,” which remains one of the most downloaded podcasts on Apple Podcasts.
