Tiger King: what to read if you’re obsessed with the Netflix series

It’s impossible to tell if the Netflix Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness documentary series would have become such a sensation if we didn’t all spend most of our waking hours indoors. The subtitle of the show itself gives the impression of having been created for another era, one in which the show really had to sell to potential viewers. (He has murder, chaos and Madness.)

New York Times television critic Margaret Lyons certainly knew by writing, Narratively, this seven-part documentary is kind of a mess, but everything it portrays is so outrageous that it hardly matters.

If you’ve seen the entire series (or even just a few episodes), you’ve probably been inspired to dive into a rabbit hole and read more about the sordid story of Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, and the world of the owners. big american cats.

First, you may want to know that last fall, the actress from Saturday Night Live Kate McKinnon is committed to producing and embodying Baskin in the Joe Exotic limited edition. This series is based on a podcast of the same name by the writer Robert Moor. ((You can listen to this podcast here.)

Moor also wrote one of two definitive journalistic pieces on the Tiger King saga. There’s this Texas monthly coin, then theres Moors, who he wrote for New York Magazine, and it’s a fleshy long read that has tons of details that the series doesn’t have. Like the following:

When he returned to the park, he put a pair of tigers with lions, and soon his first liger was born. Then he decided to house the liger with a lion, and a year later, the first liliger was born half lion, half liger. Joe would continue to create a tiliger and even a tililiger (or T3) creature that hardly ever existed anywhere else on earth. Some of these hybrids have reached monstrous size; The biggest Joes weighed over a thousand pounds. By continuing this trajectory, Joe believed he could recreate a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger. (Big cat biologists universally agree that this is nonsense.)

Moor set up a Twitter feed detailing some random facts he found during his report, but he deleted one of the Tweets, and now everything is messed up! (Who among us?) Still, you might be interested in scroll through his feed.

Here are some of the most interesting and informative pieces that Tiger King has inspired from the web:

Tiger King chose the bad villain[[[[Slate]

One of the craziest things about this crazy show is the bad montage it gives to Carole Baskin, making a murderer and a villain of reality TV in good faith one of the rare participants who n was not actually convicted for anything a series brimming with criminals, sect leaders, polygamists, female abusers, animal abusers and selfish cruelties, his only Baskin who is treated without sympathy.

A debate on Tiger King between me and me[[[[Vulture]

Me: is Tiger King good in a moral meaning? Is it human? Is it compassionate? Is it an ethical film? Because come on, you know you gnashed your teeth watching this.

Tiger King, despite all his extreme observability, also lives fairly close to this TLC reality show location. There’s a breath of class tourism here, not unlike shows like Toddlers and Tiaras or Here Comes Honey Boo Boo shows that treat their subjects as side performances in a circus, where the circus is poverty. Do you feel good watching this?

Myself: Ehhhhhhhhhh

Inside the video clips of Joe Exotics Wild Homemade[[[[Vanity Fair]

After some research on the Internet, Vanity Fair concluded that the mystery musicians responsible for Joes’ songs were Vince Johnson and singer Danny Clinton, both listed in the Tiger Kings credits. But Joe kept this secret fiercely.

I didn’t realize he was going to Milli Vanilli the songs, Johnson wrote Vanity Fair in an email. It was a few months and two or three songs [into the collaboration] when I was on YouTube one night and looking for Joe Exotic. And there he was, synchronizing his lips and acting like the ghost of Elvis [in these music videos].

Private zoos on Netflixs Tiger King exist due to these U.S. exotic animal ownership laws[[[[People]

To find out more about how U.S. citizens can legally own tigers, lions and other large dangerous animals as pets, people have spoken to Alicia Prygoski, director of legislative affairs at Animal Legal Defense Fund a group dedicated to promoting animal welfare by bringing high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from current (or lack thereof) laws regarding the ownership of exotic animals in the United States.

Why yes, a Tiger King Star appeared in the performances of the British Spears Slave 4 U VMA[[[[Billboard]

Tip: It’s not Joe Exotic.

Slow and steady[[[[The new yorker]

This 2012 piece on turtle conservation looks at Eric Goode, who directed Tiger King, with Rebecca Chalkin. In it, Goode is described as a Manhattan hotel and restaurant owner who built and bought fashionable hotels in the Maritimes, Bowery, Jane, Lafayette House and has also used Naomi Campbell to date.