Tiger King

The first season is a tale of crazy people (mostly) becoming the authors of their own destruction, unfolding across a long span of time. The second season is still filled with crazy people, but has more than a whiff of cobbling something quickly together in order to cash in, with far too much rumour and innuendo and far too little evidence. In short, it increasingly resembles just another "reality TV" series.

100 for every single music video

It's as American a story as there can be. Lost children with no consciousness, living in redemption fantasies and power trips that end in selfish, criminal tragedies of exploitation and greed.

It's suitable that this has become THE entertainment during quarantine, because it makes your perception of mankind drop so low that you never want to leave your house again. Although I was not previously aware of the big cat community, it is predictable that those who are drawn to owning dangerous animals are often egomaniacal nut jobs. Religion, politics, ... any power will draw in crazy losers that feel like a king when they're Robin to any Batman.

It's reprehensible trash, but it's entertaining reprehensible trash.

Joe Exotic is what you would get if Sigfried & Roy were raised in the swamp lands. Everyone here is trash with a complete lack of self awareness, which leads them to believe that they are in the right. This show proves the adage "Nobody ever thinks they are the bad guy" I hope season two is just people trying to beat a confession out of Carole Baskin while Joe Exotic's songs play in the background. ?'Cause?I?saw tiger, Now I?understand, I saw tiger,?and the tiger saw man ?

WOW !

Entertaining, but it's a couple hours too long, and it uses that time for idiots, cons, and other varieties of dipshits to give their useless opinions. I trust very few of the details in this documentary. Still, it's entertaining. Do not expect anything more than that - there were plenty of opportunities to make compelling statements, touch us emotionally, or educate people on big cat conservation but this doc failed to do that.

The Tiger King himself is a compelling and exuberant character enough for this show, but it seems just about every other person that hovers around or near his life and is featured in this doco is also as captivating, sharing and contrasting different elements to this main man. The doco techniques are Netflix standard, it's just that this real-life odyssey can't help but be fascinating.

You are all assholes for thinking that everyone in this one deserves the same kind of treatment!

If I want to tell my grandkids in the future how crazy 2020 was, I'll just show them this documentary.

The documentarians struck gold when they stumbled upon this crazy part of the American landscape populated with a host of loathsome, colorful cases of personality disorders. The first five or so episodes are just a cavalcade of insanity that can't help but entertain you. However, the lack of focus, which must have been hard when you have so many interesting characters to document, leaves the series feeling unfulfilling as it desperately tries to meaningfully wrap up the chaos in the last episode

It's extremely entertaining obviously, but the documentary makers themselves are scummy and irresponsible. Watch the 2021 Louis Theroux follow up doc, and realize if you havent already that Joe is a manipulative Jim Jones type who doesn't deserve any sympathy.

A docuseries focusing on the admittedly entertaining train-wreck that is the American big cat industry. With that said, it completely fails as a documentary and much more closely resembles "reality" television. It's portrayal of certain characters and their actions are clearly sensationalized by the film-makers for the sake of drama and makes me lose any faith that this series accurately portrays events in any manner.

Carol Baskin killed that poor husband.

Engaging just on the pure insanity of it all, but the doc succeeds in giving a sense of humanity to Joe's character despite his eccentricities. On the other hand, it doesn't look at the issue broadly - It glorifies Joe and fails to show how his treatment of animals differs from Carole nor does it convey the actual problems that come with owning exotic animals, not to mention it can be misleading. As a doc to highlight Joe's rambling insanity, it's good, but that's about all you'll get from it.

Absolutely fascinating bunch of real world characters, that's for sure, but I wasn't a fan of the way the viewer is manipulated by the deliberately blinkered narrative style just to heighten the drama. There were also very few ultimately sympathetic individuals on display so it was difficult to care about the outcome of any of them. At least the doc does close by emphasizing that none of these people actually care about the animals they all fight for control over.

I can't wait for 20 years in the future when this is the thing that sticks out in my brain when someone asks me what the covid quarantine was like.

Me: How much conspiracy could be in a zoo park? Series: Yes Needs an Emmy.

Instant cult status, which is given the amount of story gold not entirely strange.

Everyone is fucking ridiculous

They've really hit the jackpot of documentary subjects, to the point that it's easy to forgive the script for its sensationalist artificiality. It's like Honey Boo Boo in a gangster saga produced by National Geographic; and the whole thing is uniquely American. Insane things happen everywhere, but this particular flavor of moneyed insanity would be unthinkable anywhere else in the world. Thematically this is a landmark mini-series and will be well-remembered.

Some of the craziest people on the planet all in one show.

Wild, whacky and completely insane. You learn two things in this documentary. All the people who say they care about animals outside of their natural habitat are lying and there is always more to the story than meets the eye. Oh and Carole killed her husband.

Crazy documentary about crazy people. It starts with insane stories right away, but somehow every episode manages to add some layers of crazy, there's twists all the way through. It's quite long though, about half of it could have been cut without losing the quality.

It's a train wreck you just can't help but staring at, but it's clear (as with most documentaries and real life series) that the viewer is manipulated into certain ideas and thoughts. Still, it's some crazy crap that happened here and ultimately, you just feel sorry for the animals.

[thru season 2; s01=73, s02=35]

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It is a masterpiece. So much content in 7 series only. I can't imagine those people are real. God bless America!

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A highly entertaining train wreck from start to finish focusing on Joe Exotic his hatred of Carol Baskins, the sad abuse of animals, and the cast of characters surrounding Joe This rating is for the first season as I has no intention of watching the cash grab second season.

As fascinating as a train wreck, yes, but equally primitive

It is admittedly fun to watch and very engrossing, but I can't help but feel like I am perpetuating a fraud to the public about Carole Baskin while watching it. High levels of manipulation make this trainwreck fun and immerse you into the world of Joe Exotic, but one must take care to not take its messaging as gospel.

Season one was such a great entry to quarantine and such a shock to the system, but seasons 2 can't keep it rolling that much and feels rushed. Nothing is concluded so seems pointless at times.. Slags, gets really complicated, then nothing happens..

Odak sorunumu bir kenara bırakıp 7 bölüm, 5 saatlik Tiger King'i izledim az önce ve başım ağrıyor. Tabiri caizse bir avuç dolusu şerefsizin hayvanları istismar ederek yükselmesi ve birbirlerini dibe çekme hikayesi sıradışı. Bu belgeselin yılın olayı olmasına şaşırmamalı.

Sleek documentary-making on display, but admittedly it loses a bit of steam midway through. Still a fascinating and expertly-made doc.

It hooked me when Joe Exotic said that if they tried to take his tigers it's gonna be like Waco.

Great series but the biased narrative almost ruins it. The story writes itself so well that the added narrative is patronizing. The whole story is a shit show--and to the credit of the filmmaker, it's relatively cohesive despite this. What I don't like about the series is that it really wants you to pick a side. All these characters are unlikable to me. The series is interesting, but not enough to warrant a second season. The tigers are a cash grab and the filmmakers shamelessly(?) want in on it

i mean... arrest them all or free joe

Quite, quite mad

gets more and more harrowing as it goes on