El riesgo de la desinformación en la ficción basada en hechos reales: The Thing About Pam (o la cosa de justificar al criminal).

The danger of misinformation in based on real events fiction: The Thing About Pam (or the thing about justifying the criminal).

NBC Television Network; STORYTELLING; FICTION; COMPARATIVE studies; CRIME; NARRATORS

This article compares the NBC miniseries 'The Thing About Pam (2022) with the podcast on which it is based in order to decide if fiction can misinform the audience through the characterization of characters that are based on real people. The miniseries is a prime example of a recent trend: the production of fictions that are based on journalistic works and that tell the story about women that have committed a crime. After accomplishing a comparative and interpretative analysis about the series' main character characterization, we conclude that the fiction reinforces the features already set out by the podcast, but somehow justify the behavior of the main character with an explanation that has nothing to do with the podcast's findings. This justification together with the use of the same narrator in both works may misinform the audience about a real story whose trial has not been held yet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo compara la miniserie de NBC The Thing About Pam (2022) con el pódcast periodístico en el que se basa, con el objetivo de determinar si la ficción corre el riesgo de desinformar a través de la caracterización de personajes inspirados en personas reales. La serie es un ejemplo paradigmático de una tendencia muy reciente, la de producir ficciones basadas en trabajos periodísticos donde se narra un delito reciente cometido por una mujer. Después de un estudio comparativo e interpretativo de la caracterización de la protagonista, se concluye que la serie, aunque mantiene los rasgos explicitados por el pódcast, ofrece una justificación al comportamiento del personaje que nada tiene que ver con lo averiguado por el periodismo. Esto, unido al hecho de que ambos trabajos comparten narrador, puede conducir a la desinformación de la audiencia sobre una historia real de un delito cuyo juicio todavía no se ha celebrado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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