Tiger King: Season 1

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Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: March 20, 2020

Summary: Subtitled: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin's documentary series about Joe Exotic, self-proclaimed Tiger King, who ran a zoo in Oklahoma and plotted to kill animal activist Carole Baskin also reveals the dark underbelly of breeding and selling big exotic cats.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary

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S1:E8. The Tiger King and I
Air Date: April 12, 2020

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RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Mar 27, 2020

There is an immense amount of care to this story, which shines in its nuanced tone—it’s not as plainly silly as its absurdity guarantees. Read full review

Lauren Zupkus

Mar 23, 2020

At first glance, Tiger King may look like another Fyre Fest-esque documentary: a catastrophic series of events that are easy to laugh at thanks to the hot-mess egomaniac at the center of it all. But audiences should prepare themselves for some deeply distressing moments of darkness uncovered in Joe Exotic's story. Read full review

Richard Lawson

Mar 19, 2020

At its most profound—and engrossing—Tiger King is a portrait of a world that’s entirely alien, and yet also reflective, and diagnostic, of this country as a whole. It’s funny, and creepy, and frustrating, and, in the longview, pretty sad. Which feels just about exactly right at this particular juncture in our national experiment. Read full review

Ashlie D. Stevens

Mar 23, 2020

The outlandish world presented by "Tiger King" is funny, gross, frustrating, contemplative, and ultimately sympathetic. This is a story of animals, yes, but it's also a story of what makes us human. Read full review

Rachel Syme

Apr 1, 2020

What unfolds from this years-long scrimmage is too delicious to give away, but it involves a cast of colorful oddballs living on the fringes of society. ... “Tiger King” exposes the furry underbelly of a big-cat community I’d never known about, in which the lines between loving wild animals and exploiting them are never quite clear. In the end, I felt queasy at what I had seen, but the time sure had flown. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Mar 19, 2020

The doc feels like it started life as a message film, lost the thread completely and ended up, especially in its closing installments, with a lot of hastily unfolding plot. It's a series that might, in its ideal form, have been a substantive and nourishing meal, but premieres on Netflix as a yummy bag of potato chips. ... I'll leave it to the directors to decide whether, amid what may be turn out to be great popularity for the show, they miss the desired nutritional value. Read full review

The Daily Beast Laura Bradley

Nov 17, 2021

Those who found themselves entranced by the spectacle of Tiger King’s original release will find even more unbelievable stories and visuals to gawk at here. ... Haphazard reporting and feverish pacing makes it difficult to distinguish the details that might be true from those that are almost certainly false. But the mere fact that this series spends most of its time in that swampy gray area is a big problem on its own. Read full review

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SHWAY

Apr 1, 2020

It is an absolute train wreck that you just cant stop watching. Horrible people doing horrible things. Each episode unpeeled a new layer keeping me hooked. A real must see.

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dr_heartless

Mar 31, 2020

What a compelling and fantastic series. Each episode is fascinating and well told. Highly recommended to anyone.

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chrisvacc

Mar 30, 2020

What?!?!? how does this show have a 6.4 average... this is THE craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

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kirkender

Mar 30, 2020

Tiger King is a solid documentary all the way around. It shines because of the content, Joe Exotic and supporting cast are fascinating and make for compelling viewing. From a documentary perspective, it's padded in the middle with ancillary content. Is this a doc about the big cat trade? IsTiger King is a solid documentary all the way around. It shines because of the content, Joe Exotic and supporting cast are fascinating and make for compelling viewing. From a documentary perspective, it's padded in the middle with ancillary content. Is this a doc about the big cat trade? Is it a doc about modern cult of personality polygamy? Is it a doc about how America needs a stronger social safety net so some of these people aren't driven to crime? Ultimately it's a doc about Joe Exotic being prosecuted for attempted murder and awful treatment of big cats, which should be told much quicker, but instead we get a meandering reality show about some of the worst people America has to offer. As a side note: All the criminal aspects of the big cat world are exactly the same criminal aspects of congress and political leadership in america, but we go after the low hanging fruit because they big guys pay better.… Expand

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brockcheese

Nov 18, 2021

This is an incredibly interesting true crime documentary from Netflix that changes your perspective while you watch it. A look into the interesting world of tiger owners and zoos.

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imconorirl

Apr 19, 2020

Whacky, weird and wild, Tiger King throws some insane new moment at you every time you start to pull away. The meme-able series seems to have captured the internet by storm, but the ending seems rushed, lacklustre and lacks any of the depth that the rest of the show has.

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GingerHads

Mar 29, 2020

This show is just a bunch of crap made on a false pretense to help illuminate the plight of roadside zoo animals and photo babies. Instead all this is is a bunch of lies that will hurt the cats the filmmakers claimed to want to help.

This is exploitation and no one who likes big catsThis show is just a bunch of crap made on a false pretense to help illuminate the plight of roadside zoo animals and photo babies. Instead all this is is a bunch of lies that will hurt the cats the filmmakers claimed to want to help.

This is exploitation and no one who likes big cats should avoid this trash show… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

38
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: November 17, 2021
Season 1

74
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 20, 2020
- tbd
  S1:E8. The Tiger King and I
  Air Date: April 12, 2020