Here’s Why Critics Are Hating NBC’s ‘The Thing About Pam’

In regard to Renée Zellweger’s eccentric performance, critics are a bit puzzled. “Zellweger is simultaneously broadly cartoonish and blandly nonspecific,” Roxana Hadadi wrote for Vulture. “She squints so much that her eyes lose whatever interiority they might have reflected; there is no real difference between her smile or her frown.”

Listen, we don’t mind an over-acting moment or two, but we, too, find the characterization to be oddly overemphasized.