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Critic Reviews
The TelegraphMar 2, 2022
Season 1 Review:
McKinnon and her co-producers must be credited for conveying the tale in as serious-minded a fashion as possible. In so doing they have achieved something the original Netflix documentary had little interest in attempting. Pushing past hillbilly cliches, they’ve succeeded in portraying Exotic and Baskin as living, breathing human beings.
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The GuardianMar 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Joe vs Carole is a lot to take in, as might have been expected. You can hardly call the source material understated. But it is bracing, fun and surprisingly measured. If the Tiger King saga has not lost its shine for you, there are worse ways to dip into its staggering twists and turns once more.
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Mar 2, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Mitchell is commanding enough to make his half of the series worth the while. Even if “Joe vs. Carole” doesn’t have much new to say about Joe, Carole, or why the two of them tangled to such catastrophic ends, Mitchell does so much to flesh out his role that you can almost — almost — forget the incredible overexposure that’s otherwise made its origin story so rancid.
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RogerEbert.comMar 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The filmmaking is not shallow—it can have some inspired, immersive usage of angles and framing—and the performances themselves are not lifeless, even if they’re playing something straight that was originally sold to us like a reality-altering joke. ... But why would you patronize something that now feels like a knock-off, when you can enjoy more from the real thing?
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Mar 2, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It's never ideal to arrive way too late to the party, and "Joe vs Carole" feels guilty of that, adapting the story of Netflix's "Tiger King," a.k.a. Joe Exotic, into a limited series that dutifully replicates those events without much bite. The attention might still be welcome for streaming service Peacock, but after a poorly received docu-sequel, this cat appears to have exhausted most of its lives.
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The IndependentMar 2, 2022
iMar 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The show’s big problem is that, from the CGI tigers to the Halloween-costume versions of Exotic and Baskin, it cannot match the real thing. ... [Kate McKinnon's] presence makes it almost impossible not to view the entire thing as an extended SNL sketch, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a good gag in there.
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