What is it about entertainment like this that so completely intoxicates us? What, in our deep bedazzled denim id, draws us to these spectacles, like travelers to a semi-legal roadside zoo?
Every once in a while, a doozy of a documentary or podcast comes out that overtakes the national pop culture conversation."Wild Wild Country" did it."Serial" did it. But the Netflix docuseries"Tiger King," is on a whole new level.
Even the most sober description of the show vibrates with a breathless, frenetic energy: It follows the life and feuds of Joe Exotic , who owned more than 200 big cats on a sprawling private zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, before being sentenced to 22 years in prison for animal abuse and participation in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his animal activist nemesis.
Netflix is making staying at home 'a little more bearable' 04:21The outlandish prospect of someone putting their murdered husband through a meat grinder to feed to their pet tigers would be irresistible fodder for the internet peanut gallery no matter what. Add in a large dose of isolation, frustration and collective anxiety over a global pandemic, and the many mysteries of"Tiger King" become welcome obsessions.
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