Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness Trailer Promises One of Netflix's Wildest Crime Docs Yet
If you haven't heard of Joe Exotic before, you'll certainly never forget him now
What do you get when you mix exotic big cats, intense rivalry, and a man who follows his own personal code instead of the law? A Netflix documentary about one of America's wildest murder-for-hire plots called Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.
Tiger King tracks the life of Joe Exotic, one of the most eccentric players in the already stranger-than-fiction world of big cat owners. (And when we say big cats, we're not talking about husky boys who are being lovingly overfed by their owners; we're talking apex predators like tigers and lions.) A country music singer who owned a roadside zoo in Oklahoma, Joe built what he saw as a perfectly wild world -- he privately owned over 1,200 exotic animals! -- but it toppled when he became obsessed with Carole Baskin, a passionate animal activist who ran a big cat sanctuary in Tampa. What starts as a colorful rivalry soon devolves into murder plots and hired assassins when Carole's activism threatens to shut down Joe's business.
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As Joe says in the trailer, "[Carole's] a plain old hypocrite. She does everything that I do." We have a feeling the law might feel a bit differently.
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness premieres Friday, March 20 on Netflix.
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