Renee Zellweger plays Pam Hupp, real-life diabolical killer, in The Thing About Pam. Courteney Cox plays Pat Phelps, fictional writer whose family moves into a house that may be haunted but only she seems to notice, in Shining Vale. The Pam and Pat projects premiered yesterday in the P.M., so perhaps we should peek in parallel?

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