![]() To read The Oklahoman's coverage of Joe Exotic's trial, click here. ![]() To read my review of "Tiger King," click here. To read more of my interview with Chaiklin, click here. Just when you think that the story can't get any more bizarre, Variety reports that Baskin - who been vocal on her organization's social media about her vehement disapproval over how she was depicted in the Netflix hit - has been duped into giving her first post-"Tiger King" interview via Zoom by YouTubers Josh Pieters and Archie Manners, who took advantage of the proliferation of remote TV broadcasts during the pandemic to pose as producers for "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." "Tiger King" To read the details, click here. and we suddenly were like, 'God, we're going to be really remiss as storytellers if we don't investigate this a little bit more.' And then as we investigated, we were like, 'What?' That was a shocking turn," Rebecca Chaiklin, the docuseries' co-writer and director told me in a recent interview.Īs I noted in my review, much of the appeal of "Tiger King" centers on the colorful characters, wild plot twists and generally weirdness of the docuseries' look into the world of big-cat owners and enthusiasts. "I think we started feeling that Carole Baskin had a lot of the right messaging, and then as we were filming with her, all these issues kept coming up around her background. One of the docuseries' most surprising episodes delves into Baskin's background, including her relationship with her second husband, Don Lewis, an eccentric millionaire and exotic animal breeder who mysteriously vanished in 1997, leaving Joe Exotic and Baskin's other rivals, as well as Lewis' ex-wife and adult children, speculating that Baskin was behind his disappearance. Hollywood stars like Dax Shepard and Edward Norton have cast themselves as Joe Exotic in the event a fictionalized planned series comes about, country music artists have covered Joe Exotic's songs, and countless memes, hashtags and hot takes have run wild on social media. Since, the docuseries has roared into a pop-culture phenomenon, and a number of follow-up shows are either planned or have debuted. ![]() Netflix debuted "Tiger King" on March 20, just as many Americans were finding themselves sheltering at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. ![]() According to EW.com, that's more than "Stranger Things'" hit second season, which earned 31.2 million unique viewers in the same time frame, but less than the horror fantasy's smash third season, which drew 36.3 million unique viewers. tuned in to "Tiger King" within the show's first 10 days of being on Netflix, citing ratings trackers at Nielsen. He was convicted in April of twice hiring someone to kill big cat enthusiast Baskin, a Florida animal sanctuary operator whose nonprofit organization successfully sued him for more than $1 million for trademark infringement and other civil wrongs.Īs previously reported, 34.3 million unique viewers in the U.S. Naturally, this is another riff on the smash Netflix documentary series "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness," which as previously reported, colorfully chronicles the bizarre life and murder-for-hire trial of the flamboyant former Oklahoma zoo operator and big-cat breeder Joe Exotic.Īs The Oklahoman's Nolan Clay reported, Joe Exotic - whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, but he is also known as Joe Schreibvogel - was sentenced earlier this year to 22 years in federal prison. Wearing a lavish flower crown and putting her own spooky spin on Baskin's catchphrase "Hey, all you cool cats and kittens," Elvira (aka Cassandra Peterson) ostensibly appears to clear up rumors about the well-being of her husband, Don. Hey, all you cool bats and spiders, watch Elvira, the legendary Mistress of the Dark, spoof "Tiger King's" Carole Baskin in this uproarious video.
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