INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Tiger King, the 7-episode documentary series on Netflix about now-imprisoned big cat park owner Joe Exotic, has been hotly discussed since
it debuted on the streaming service in March
Now, in the wake of its enormous success, Netflix has added what's listed as a 'new episode'
The Tiger King and I is an aftershow-like series of interviews with people featured in the documentary, hosted by Community's Joel
lockdown, The Tiger King and I feels thrown together and, as a result, is not very good.As you'd expect for something filmed in the last few
weeks, McHale hosts it from his couch, and conducts video calls with key players from the series
They include zoo owner Jeff Lowe and his wife Lauren, memorable park employee Saff, and Joe Exotic's former 'husband' (though no marriage
lighthearted but occasionally insightful questions
He gets an interesting answer from Finlay on how he felt the show misrepresented him, and he gets Saff to share how he now trusts the tiger
that attacked him more than he trusts Joe Exotic
Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin is a notable absentee, which is understandable when you read this Tampa Bay Times interview about her
presenting style means the interviews flip from the silly to the extremely serious without much of a pause
In fact, if you want a sample of the tone McHale is going for in this episode, just check out this video promoting his Tiger King special:We
can't blame Netflix for trying to extend people's interest in Tiger King, and the fact that this special looks so cheap is absolutely not
slapped together freelance assignment: McHale throws out a few breezy questions that sound like they could've been dropped into a Google doc
with about 10 minutes' notice, and the resulting show offers less insight than the 'where are they now?'-type articles doing the rounds in
that fever dream of a documentary series that we all watched together during an unprecedented global quarantine
Maybe there is more of a story to tell with some of the people in this show, but Netflix's latest smash hit deserves a little better than
