Tiger King with SPOILERS

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Seen it? Recovered yet? ready to discuss it?

OMG!

What did I watch?

The music videos absolutely floored me! how amazing were they? Cat lady and her husband sitting gushing over their video while the film maker was sitting trying to hold in all the cringe

That funeral speech! who the hell jokes about their husbands testicles at their funeral??? With his mum there? And why wasn’t his mum appalled? (Was she high? She looked high) and then the singing? It was at this point I decided it was definitely all staged and they were actors. But no. It’s all real.

What about sleazy McMaster crook Lowe sleazing over the new nanny right to his pregnant wife’s face! Ewww. How are women attracted to these men?

I think he won 19% of the vote to be the Libertarian party candidate, not the overall vote to be Governor.

I think the campaign manager was actually interested in politics and saw it as an opportunity to get experience. Poor guy when he saw Travis kill himself

I can't believe that people stayed for years just to get a different coloured t shirt!

Me either! I don’t get it. Yes it would be nice to work with big cats but surely the novelty of that wears off very quickly when you’re doing it all day every day of the year for no pay and the woman you work for doesn’t even know you exist?

I can't believe that people stayed for years just to get a different coloured t shirt!

Even missing xmas!!

It's for the cache & the "cause", Carol has them eating out of the palm of her hand whilst she cycles about in flower crowns & her husband serenades her.

The husbands must have had some bond to Joe even if it was a rescuer/trauma bond. John had a huge tattoo with 'property of joe exotic' on his belly. I think joe was very abusive. People like that can suck other people in and I don't think it matters much whether they were gay/bi when they met him

I just finished watching it. I want to say something, but to be frank, I'm just utterly stunned by the whole thing.

But, yes those poor tigers being bred and having their cubs taken away from them at birth. Poor Travis too. The whole thing was just a shit show. I do think Joe was set up, but he still deserved to go to prison for all the shitty things he did, so I can't feel much remorse about that. Did he set the fire and kill all those alligators too?

Another journalist who was profiling Joe around the time of the fire said it was assumed by all that Joe set it.

I thought it was pretty clear it was him. What a wicked man. Those poor alligators. How could anyone willingly do that to creatures they’ve cared for.

The husbands were addicts, I think with meth you do anything to get a regular supply.

OMG! I just watched all this. I couldn't look away.

All the main players should be locked up. What a hideous bunch of people.

I kept expecting one of the loons to set all the big cats free to roam Oklahoma. Probably the one silver lining in all this is that didn't happen.

Doc Antle reminded me of the cult from Wild Wild West but with added wild animals (recommend watching that one too for anyone that hasn't).

I felt sorry for many of the workers/volunteers at these places. Many of them were obviously down on their luck, loved animals and just got in over their heads. I'm surprised no one was actually killed (that we know of).

Oh thank goodness. The world hadn’t gone (completely) mad.

I'm surprised no one was actually killed (that we know of).

Well poor travis was. Entirely accidentally but I’m sure the free access to guns and drugs probably contributed to it.

I'm surprised no one was actually killed (that we know of).

Sadly I could well imagine someone was, given his staff were all waifs and strays and judging by his reaction to the woman who had her arm mauled, I have no doubt he’d see it as a negative to his business if someone was killed and that no one would miss them

Good point Shirley!

Well poor travis was. Entirely accidentally but I’m sure the free access to guns and drugs probably contributed to it.

Oh yes definitely. I was meaning by one of the animals but as Shirley said we wouldn't really know.

Apparently according to a RT article Joe has had 5 husbands (not legally but he obviously had some kind of ceremony with the earlier ones).

www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-03-25/tiger-king-netflix-joe-exotic-husbands/

These people are really just obsessive collectors aren't they? Collect animals, collect partners, collect staff to do your bidding. All vulnerable. The animals and the people.

Jesus christ I'm on episode 3. What the actual fuck am I watching?! Every single one of them are seriously damaged individuals. And Joe, Antle etc. are obviously predators. Those poor men and women they've preyed on over the years.

Redneckery at its worst 🙄
On a serious note; the animal
abuse is abhorrent 🤬

How did I miss this which episode was Travis death and the funeral in?

Ep 5 if I remember correctly

All of the workers at Jo’s I would say are modern day slaves.

I didn’t pick my jaw up from the floor for a week. It was definitely a distraction.

yes they all paid them so little, for so much work. except Carol who managed to get them to do it for free and had so many she doesnt even get to know their names or recognises them until their 5th year!

...and the living conditions :(

Did you notice how people would alert them when vagrants and homeless people were spotted at the bus station? Jo would go out like he was a savior and they were so grateful bug really he was exploiting them.
Can you imagine what went on in that park that wasn’t filmed?

yeah, the living conditions were sad.

Yes, and them all eating the meat off the Walmart truck.