While the audience is excited about "Tiger King", protagonist Carole Baskin is not satisfied with the Netflix documentary. Now she let out her anger.
- The documentary "Tiger King" is already one of Netflix's most successful in-house productions .
- The focus of the series is the former zoo owner Joe Exotic .
- The documentary also pays much attention to activist Carole Baskin , who commented online on the Netflix hit.
The Netflix documentary "Tiger King" is still a big topic after its release in March 2020 - especially in the USA. According to the figures from the market research institute Nielsen, it is one of the most successful in-house productions of the streaming service. The abstruse stories about zoo owner Joe Exotic fascinate and shock so much that producers think about further film and series adaptations.
But not everyone in Joe Exotic's immediate environment likes to be the center of attention now - like animal protection activist Carole Baskin . So she said in an angry statement about the Netflix documentary.
"Tiger King": Netflix also focuses on Carole Baskin's past
Although Joe Exotic's life would have provided more than enough material to fill all episodes of "Tiger King" *, Netflix * also paid a lot of attention to his competitor Carole Baskin . She almost fell victim to a contract killer the eccentric zoo owner is said to have hired. So is Baskin the good and exotic the bad? The makers don't make it that easy for the viewers. Instead, the documentary also addresses the dark phases in Baskin's resume .
This includes, for example, the mysterious disappearance of her ex-husband Don Lewis . According to the Screenrant magazine, many viewers assume that Baskin murdered him independently and fed it to their big cats. The popularity of the documentary led to renewed police investigations into the case of Lewis, who disappeared in 1997.
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Carole Baskin angrily commented on Netflix documentary "Tiger King"
In a detailed statement on her Big Cat Rescue website, Baskin commented on the Netflix hit and does not leave the documentary unattended. Instead, she calls them "obscene and lurid" . The creators had deliberately focused on lies and innuendo by unbelievable people in order to draw the attention of as many viewers to the series as possible. Baskin Netflix accuses the producers of the fact that the truth was irrelevant, particularly with regard to the disappearance of their ex-husband.
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