Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness
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Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is a true-crime documentary television series created by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin that aired on Netflix. The series focuses on Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka "Joe Exotic," an eccentric big cat zoo owner in Oklahoma, who eventually ran for government office and was later arrested for initiating a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin, a woman running a big cat preservation organization named Big Cat Rescue, that some have noted appeared to operate similarly to Exotic's zoo, despite her stance against big cat zoos.
History
Tiger King was created by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin. The series follows Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic. Exotic developed a big cat zoo in Oklahoma while Baskin ran a wildlife preservation organization designed to stop the breeding of big cats for zoos. Big cats like lions and tigers in captivity are often preferred when they are young and when they get older are treated poorly or euthanized.[1] On March 10th, 2020, Netflix released the trailer to Tiger King, gaining over 250,000 views in ten days (shown below). The show debuted on March 20th.[2]
Reception
The series was widely praised by critics for the surreality of its setting and its central characters. Writing in Vanity Fair,[1] Julie Miller wrote:
Tiger King has it all. The series also features enough serious plot twists to contend with The Jinx; romantic tragedy; one large-cat owner who claims to be the real-life Scarface; another large-cat owner who seems to carry on a deeply problematic, polygamous relationship with the female interns in his employ; and a cowboy-hat-wearing, Big Lebowski-esque narrator.
On Metacritic,[3] the show has a score of 70 out of four critic reviews, with critics noting that while the series was entertaining, it perhaps covers too much in detail, resulting in some of the plot being lost. Some critics noted that it was a particularly welcome release as it could prove particularly binge-worthy during the self-quarantine social distancing measures taken place during the Coronavirus Outbreak. [4][5]
Online Presence
The series did not develop a strong internet presence prior to release. Much of its impact was made on Reddit, where threads about the film's trailer in /r/television,[6] /r/LPOTL,[7] and /r/oklahoma[8] gained 320, 407, and 249 points, respectively. The Twitter account for Big Cat Rescue[9] posted about the documentary, gaining over 50 retweets and 100 likes (shown below).
Search Interest
External References
[1] Vanity Fair – Netflix’s Wild Tiger King Is Your Next True Crime TV Obsession
[2] New York Post – Everything you need to know about Netflix’s new Joe Exotic doc, ‘Tiger King’
[3] Metacritic – Tiger King
[4] Wired – Netflix’s Tiger King is the true crime release we need right now
[5] CNN – 'Tiger King' is the weird docu-series distraction we can use right now
[6] Reddit – /r/television
[8] Reddit – /r/oklahoma
[9] Twitter – BigCatRescue
![Jeff Lowe (01:02:16): He just asked me to talk to him again. I could completely f------ set him up. I could do this, I could say, "Where did you get $3,000 to pay Allen to go kill Carole Baskin?" And let's see what he says. [inaudible 01:02:32], "Well it didn't come out of the park money." But he'll probably say it came out of cub money. Did he give you a different phone? 13 Q. B4 A. Yes, ma'am. 5 Q. Matthew Bryant (01:16:51): Sent C 7 +197037697 69 Read TC+0) After your original phone. after vou gave it to him. did you The phone that you told me that was hers does not belong to her it belongs to f the zoo is not even half of the telephone she told me that it was b Source Extraction: Physical Oh and lol I know who's phone you found. Grin I do believe it is AJ's. Lol. Heard Joe talking to someone bout it today. Then you will never guess who I ran into this evening when I went to get smokes. AJ. Yup. She's doing OK, Joe told her someone who used to live there took it... Before you even left (like when he still had it) lol. Anyhow AJ said she didn't care if u had it. She 839 and whats he using the phone s just for? to use up that much data? 12:56 PM nd th 2:31 PM Suspended it F Allen vou 100% 3:03 PM Sent < Jeff Lowe New Sent rean, the act on. Matthew Bryant (01:34:04): But we need an overt act. Matthew Bryant (01: OH, Alan text me from a 405 number. I asked him where did he get that number and he said some girl at the bar handed him the phone. He said that stole the pizza PM phone OW 2:43 PM fednesday, December 6, 2017 Not one cUS- ejoeexotic The other thing, just kind of reiterate for the sake of this case, if we're going to do something about Joe, and with Joe; I was never here. Matthew Bryant (02:01:28): I don't think he will because he does not trust you. He can say everybody set him up right now.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/808/974/56d.jpeg "The truth will come to light | /r/TigerKing")
![Jeff Lowe (01:02:16): He just asked me to talk to him again. I could completely f------ set him up. I could do this, I could say, "Where did you get $3,000 to pay Allen to go kill Carole Baskin?" And let's see what he says. [inaudible 01:02:32], "Well it didn't come out of the park money." But he'll probably say it came out of cub money. Matthew Bryant (01:16:18): Because he thinks you're trying to set him up. Matthew Bryant (01:16:51): But we have to do it so that its Joe's selling it and not ya'll selling it. Matthew Bryant (01:19:01): All right. Well before we set up anything like that, let's just see... The murder for hire is number one. Matthew Bryant (01:30:16): There's a lot of potential here. My two big things is the murder for hire and the lemurs? Le tigers. Matthew Bryant (01:32:37): And let that get out. And then when we take Joe down, you could be like, "I tried to work it out. I tried with him several times. He kept screwing up. I couldn't do it anymore." And then you can have it and you could walk away from it with... Matthew Bryant (01:34:01): It's one thing to sit and talk about it. Jeff Lowe (01:34:02): Yeah, the "act on". Matthew Bryant (01:34:04): But we need an overt act. #freejoeexotic https://floridajustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/180-1.pdf Matthew Bryant (01:45:18): The other thing, just kind of reiterate for the sake of this case, if we're going to do something about Joe, and with Joe; I was never here. Matthew Bryant (02:01:28): I don't think he will because he does not trust you. He can say everybody set him up right now.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/803/674/fa6.jpeg "Friendly Reminder to look at evidence | /r/TigerKing")
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