'Tiger King': The not-so-secret formula behind its popularity

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What is it about entertainment like this that so completely intoxicates us? What, in our deep bedazzled denim id, draws us to these spectacles, like travelers to a semi-legal roadside zoo?

Every once in a while, a doozy of a documentary or podcast comes out that overtakes the national pop culture conversation."Wild Wild Country" did it."Serial" did it. But the Netflix docuseries"Tiger King," is on a whole new level.

Even the most sober description of the show vibrates with a breathless, frenetic energy: It follows the life and feuds of Joe Exotic , who owned more than 200 big cats on a sprawling private zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, before being sentenced to 22 years in prison for animal abuse and participation in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his animal activist nemesis.

Netflix is making staying at home 'a little more bearable' 04:21The outlandish prospect of someone putting their murdered husband through a meat grinder to feed to their pet tigers would be irresistible fodder for the internet peanut gallery no matter what. Add in a large dose of isolation, frustration and collective anxiety over a global pandemic, and the many mysteries of"Tiger King" become welcome obsessions.

 

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I don’t get the popularity

I blame Carole Baskin!

😢😢😢😢😠😠😠😠👿👿👿👿

Never have watched reality TV it's trash. Always has been. Always will be.

We don’t see lions and tigers that much and when you add in the fact it could eat a human ppl will watch. What’s so hard to figure out?

Only wicked people like to see animals and people taken out of their habits and beaten into entertainment for Barbarian's. The answer to your question is, it only intoxicate evil wicked people.

Disgusting

When the alternative is CNN, you look for anything else to watch. FakeNewsMedia

No thank you.

Great question, . It's some of the same stuff that attracts viewers to your network.

It doesn't. It's more, trash TV.

It's like a parody documentary only it's real because nobody could write this shit. When the world is weird you need the weirdest shit that ever happened to distract you.

~ other folk’s bigger drama than our own… same reason for all of my gawkers on here.👋

No homo

You had me at 'semi-legal roadside zoo.' AmericanCulture

CNN please goes to self-quarantine! The nation will thank you!!! Nobody listens or watches CNN anymore anyway!

Same thing that draws us to car wrecks. Curiosity

Only for the whites😅😅... we don't do that here😅😅 and by we I mean the black man if I wasn'the that clear... lol

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