'Tiger King' On Netflix Is The Perfect Quarantine Binge-Watch
Trying to describe Netflix’s new documentary series “Tiger King” is like trying to describe a fever dream. At its centre is a magnetic, mulleted, meth-using gay polygamist zoo owner/country singer/wannabe politician who’s now in jail for his involvement in a muder-for-hire plot. But as anyone who’s watched even the first episode knows, coming to terms with Joe Exotic is only the beginning of the wild, disarming, nearly hallucinatory experience of watching the series. That’s the show’s starting point.
Each character is more outlandish and corrupt than the last. There’s Joe Exotic’s sworn rival, an animal rights activist and eccentric in her own right who says she became friends with cats because she had no friends of her own, and whose second husband disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
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There’s another exotic animal wrangler, a white man with a long ponytail who adopts an Indian name and has eight girlfriends, all much younger women who came to work for him. (And who’s apparently still leading safari tours during the current pandemic.)
There are Joe Exotic’s two husbands, one of whom is interviewed shirtless, speaking slowly as the camera pans over his few remaining teeth. There are the loyal zoo employees who continue to serve even as staff limbs are lost to the caged animals. There’s a drug dealer who used to cut open snakes to more easily transport...