Tiger King on Netflix?

[susanm9006]

Found this on Twitter:

 

[Willowy]

I don't think the show is about her killing her husband, is it? That's just an allegation the crazy dude made. I think the show is just about the general wackiness of the whole situation.

I wish my internet connection were better so I could watch it tonight. I might try to download an episode anyway.

A comedy writer interviewed Carole 6 years ago, he never published an article but she posted it on Youtube. He says he didn't ask the right questions like "is a crazy dude trying to kill you?" . But she seemed sane in the interview:

We Interviewed Carole Baskin From 'Tiger King' (6 Years Ago)

We interviewed Carole Baskin in 2014, before most of the Tiger King stuff went off the rails.

www.cracked.com

 

[susanm9006]

I don't think the show is about her killing her husband, is it? That's just an allegation the crazy dude made. I think the show is just about the general wackiness of the whole situation.

I wish my internet connection were better so I could watch it tonight. I might try to download an episode anyway.

A comedy writer interviewed Carole 6 years ago, he never published an article but she posted it on Youtube. He says he didn't ask the right questions like "is a crazy dude trying to kill you?" . But she seemed sane in the interview:

We Interviewed Carole Baskin From 'Tiger King' (6 Years Ago)

We interviewed Carole Baskin in 2014, before most of the Tiger King stuff went off the rails.

www.cracked.com

The stuff about Carole and her missing husband was really backstory and not that central to the main story which was Joe’s hatred and obsession with Carol and how it led to his ruin.

 

[muffy]

That show just sounds trashy to me. Not something I would want to waste my time watching.

 

[susanm9006]

That show just sounds trashy to me. Not something I would want to waste my time watching.

Totally and completely trashy.

 

[KittyFriday]

Oh yeah. I have three episodes left and it's insane. It's kind of depressing watching these crazy people who have these cats - like none of them are normal, or at least no one they chose to interview is.

The backstory about Carole and her husband is interesting. I'm not sure if it's true or not, probably no one will ever know. To be totally fair, though, it wasn't just Joe making those accusations - many people who were close to her former husband hold that belief and they were closer to the situation. Though he seemed a bit off his rocker too.

 

[basscat]

It's like a train wreck. You just can't look away.
BCR in 2014 had $3.5 million in revenue and used only $600k of that for animal care. Volunteers do the work without pay. Family is who gets paid.
Looks like all of them are pretty shady to me....

 

[MoonstoneWolf]

I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes of this show. Too over the top for me and I'm used to true crime shows on Investigation Discovery

 

[muffy]

Totally and completely trashy.

I guess I am getting old. I used to love "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" now I think the show is pure trash. I have never watched "Tiger King" and from the sounds of it I never will. LOL.

 

[Willowy]

Someone's Twitter account is about them and their friend watching it together, and at one point their friend says "I'm rooting for the tigers to eat everybody now, tbh" . Sounds like they deserve it.

 

[aliceneko]

I'll need to add this on my watch list!

 

[Azazel]

It does seem like the show tries to paint Carol as a more devious character than she is just to have some added drama. I mean, the editing when they show her riding her bicycle or how they edit the scenes to make fun of her clothes and interior decorations is just bad journalism. It's clear that they are trying to make the viewer hold a certain impression of her. Whether that impression is true or not we will not know.

Anyway, the sad thing is that the cats are really the victims in all of this. This show is just depressing in general because the creators are no better than Joe, Carol, or anyone else in the show. They are making money off of the captive breeding of these animals too.

 

[susanm9006]

Someone's Twitter account is about them and their friend watching it together, and at one point their friend says "I'm rooting for the tigers to eat everybody now, tbh" . Sounds like they deserve it.

Yeah, me too. They were definitely getting the short end.

 

[Azazel]

It's actually quite angering that the show's creators could have made a meaningful documentary about cats in captivity and to help spread word that people should not support the breeding of captive big cats. Instead, the director chose to try and create drama between the humans and sadly the stories of the cats get lost in that stupid drama.

 

[susanm9006]

It's actually quite angering that the show's creators could have made a meaningful documentary about cats in captivity and to help spread word that people should not support the breeding of captive big cats. Instead, the director chose to try and create drama between the humans and sadly the stories of the cats get lost in that stupid drama.

They did talk about the bill that was introduced in Congress to do just that and said, near the end of the documentary that it didn’t pass.

 

[Azazel]

They did talk about the bill that was introduced in Congress to do just that and said, near the end of the documentary that it didn’t pass.

Right, but they're portraying animal rights activists and people like Carole who are the ones who got that bill to congress in the first place as if they're potential nutcases. The show really isn't about the cats, it's about showing how weird all the big cat people are.

 

[MoonstoneWolf]

Interesting read btw by Shaq

Shaquille O'Neal addresses controversial 'Tiger King' appearance

 

[Lari]

Episode 2 paraphrasing "They use the animals to lure in the women"

Me to husband "I see what you did there with Sparkle."

Everyone is so ridiculous, but I'm looking forward to episode 3.