By the end of the original Tiger King (yes, I stuck with it) we had learned how Joe Exotic, an Oklahoma tiger park owner, YouTuber and failed presidential candidate, had been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for plotting to kill his nemesis, Carole Baskin, a Florida tiger park owner and animal rights activist. Nobody came out of it well, including viewers who stuck with it. Television’s biggest contributor to that mass squandering was Tiger King: Murder, Madness and Mayhem, a lockdown phenomenon watched by millions, despite belonging to a burgeoning category of Netflix documentary that is more human circus than true crime.
What did you do with all that spare time when Covid forced us indoors, back in the spring of 2020? It’s common to admit to having squandered it.
