Tiger
The second chapter of this big cat saga is even wilder than the first—and doubles down on the nihilism.
Rick Kirkham spent a year chronicling Joe Exotic for an aborted reality TV show. He tells Marlow Stern about all the insane things the Netflix docuseries left out.
Producer Rick Kirkham supplied The Daily Beast with a 7-minute “sizzle reel” of his reality pilot on “Tiger King” Joe Exotic that never saw the light of day.
The wild subject of the Netflix docuseries (and cultural phenomenon) “Tiger King” is way, way worse than the show makes him seem.
That’s just as well—because the Big Cat Rescue owner says she wouldn’t have wanted to attend anyway.
John Goodrich is head of tiger conservation organization Panthera and the world’s leading tiger biologist. Here are his problems with Netflix’s “Tiger King” and Carole Baskin.
Filmed over five years, the docuseries tells the wild tale of Joe Exotic, a pistol-packin’ meth-head polygamist known as the “Tiger King” who put a hit out on his rival.