Tiger King ... holy eff

I ’m kind of hoping that this “Plandemic” woman stays in the limelight for a while because I want to see what Netflix will do with “Virus King” about her rivalry with Tony Epidemiologic.

 

Hey, Roy Horn, of Siegfried and Roy, died.

It might as well be posted on this thread, too. It's on 3 others.

Come on, SJ folks. Reading through the threads is like turning on the TV. I saw that already. Change channel. I saw that already. Change channel. I saw that already. The same thing is posted on 5 different threads. Yesterday, the video of Pence lifting the empty boxes was posted 3 times in 30 minutes on the SAME thread.

Oh yeah, maybe I should post this, too, on the "Thinks that irk you" thread.

 

Joe is going to be soooooo pissed!

Carole Baskin Wins Control of Oklahoma Zoo That Used to Be Joe Exotic's

 

Jeff Lowe Has Letter Hinting at Location of Carole Baskin's Ex-Husband
Jeff Lowe Has Letter Hinting at Location of Carole Baskin's Ex-Husband

Jeff Lowe is such a tool bag. Baskin is a ghoul.

 

Joe Exotic’s sentence has been vacated!

That’s what some headlines are saying. What that really means is that he’ll be resentenced with two murder-for-hire convictions combined. With the other convictions, he might get as much as four and a half years off his 22-year sentence. Or it might be as little as two months off.

Tiger King Star Joe Exotic's Sentence Vacated, but He Remains Behind Bars and Will Be Resentenced

 

Nicolas Cage won't play Joe Exotic in an Amazon 'Tiger King' project after all

 

Also in that link: Peacock has a Tiger King-themed show coming out with Kate McKinnon playing Carole Baskin. YES, PLEASE.

 

Judging from the lack of posts, well, anywhere, season two has mostly landed with a "thud." The wife and I have watched four of the five episodes so far, and, well, I can't really recommend it either, haha. I've heard the last episode might have some cliffhangers, to somehow setup a third season, but so far...

- The main focus is on the weirdos who have come out in support of Joe Exotic. There are long segments about the guys who were attempting to get him a pardon from Trump, and maybe surprising / not surprising, the Tiger King camera crew was in D.C. on Jan. 6. The "rawest" thing in the first four episodes is an encounter between the group trying to get a pardon for Joe Exotic, and Trump supporters at the rally. You can *feel* the anger in the air.

- A bunch of time is devoted to a kind of sleazy civil rights (?!?) lawyer, who switches from advocating for Don Lewis' family to working for Joe Exotic, but in both pursuits against Carole Baskin. Along similar lines, there is an "Internet sleuth" who's investigating the case. Both things are quite light on evidence. (My position on her has always been that there's a chance she had something to due with Don's death, but there's pretty much zero evidence.) There is some evidence presented that she and her family might have committed fraud to get Lewis' estate.

- There are some interviews with Joe's brother, and his ex-wife. Mostly fluff. There isn't really much from the interesting people from the first doc (the on the ground workers); I'm presuming it's because they're mostly involved in normal work now, living their lives, and there isn't much to update in 12 to 24 months. (This is a problem with season two in general - there really isn't much "new" stuff there.)

- Jeff Lowe talks on camera about how MDMA is great, and you can drive on it. He and his wife continue to be gross as fuck. Lowe partnered with a guy named Tim Stark, who is somehow as bad or worse than Joe Exotic.

- The one bit of new and interesting reporting is by the doc makers, who go to Costa Rica to interview some of Don Lewis' workers and friends and "acquaintances" from there. It seems pretty clear that he was doing things like hiding assets, transporting wild animals illegally from that country to the U.S., and also hooking up regularly with prostitutes.

Anyway, I might have another post after we watch the final episode. But man, even more so than the first season, this is just a series about awful people.

 

That sounds like a lot of Trump-style grift. Why am I not surprised?

I feel somewhat bad for Joe Exotic. I think the guy at first meant well, but went more and more off the deep end — perhaps like some of those pedo hunters who thought Comet Pizza was really a den of child sex. There are some mental issues there, and I hope he gets help for those. While that is happening, there are a fair number of people making money from being tangentially involved with his story.

 

This is the perfect example of a show for which a second season sounded like a great idea 15 months ago and by the time that they were able to produce it, no one really cares.

 

Without watching it, I just don't think they had material. He was in jail and the zoo sold off with the material they had from the last season. Carol Baskin didn't agree to participate. It was so popular they felt they had to do something, so they really stretched for the material.