Jesus Jased Christ. I think we need a groupwatch soon, preferably with a live commetary option.
It's well worth everyone's time. It's not often that midwest trash gets such a spotlight in America. I can't believe I can say I actually know (not well) people who had some high profile tigers about a decade ago. Their zoo is still open in a small town called Caney, Kansas.
They were not nearly as batshit insane as the people in the documentary series though. They only had a few animals at once. Never over 200 freaking tigers like old Joe Exotic.
It's like Roar meets Grizzly Man meets Animal Kingdom meets Battle Royale meets the Sopranos meets Big Love meets Life of Pi meets Macbeth meets Rhinestone meets National Geographic meets Wisconsin Death Trip. Can anything top this ever again?
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My buddy even remembers seeing Joe Exotic at one of our local malls back in the early 00's. I can't recall evver seeing any tigers at the mall; I think I would.
I watched the entire thing on Sunday. I expected one type of crazy based on the trailer and got a whole other type of crazy. A friend binged it the day before and we spent like half an hour just going back and forth about all the insane things that happened. When the Miami drug kingpin is, comparatively, the voice of reason in your show you've got a hit.
There's rumors of an 8th episode coming out this weekend, which is big if true. _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
Just finished- it left me feeling a bit sad more than anything. Maybe, I'm being the fun police here but I feel a bit uncomfortable about the way it was presented mainly for entertainment and shock value when the story touched on such serious incidents and themes. It was certainly engrossing and an interesting story but deep down the presentation of it just didn't feel right (sorry-bit of a bummer comment but you might see what I mean).
Absolutely, there's some real dark shit in there that's almost glossed over to a certain extent (I'll hold off for now in terms of spoilers for those who've yet to get to it), at the same time, it's a numbers game and none of us would probably be here talking about it if it was set up any other way, I think the style just suits the nature of people involved and stories being told, even if underplayed the severity of some aspects, it certainly wouldn't work for every documentary but I think this is one the cases where if does fit.
Just as a reference, I recently attempted go watch the Netflix Pandemic documentary, they brought out just before all the Covid-19 things kicked off on a big scale, think it came out in January, anyway, I couldn't hack the style of it, way too sensationalist, interesting in some aspects but a lot of things were needlessly blown out of proportion and done purely to scaremonger. They had this graphic comparing the Spanish Flu's death toll to that of the World War's, which is completely unnecessary anyway and pissed me off quite a bit.
Apologies for the rant, I really had to hold back there when I remembered Pandemic. _________________
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