When I say I finally watched Tiger King, I mean the first episode.
Back when quarantine first started, everyone was watching Tiger King which meant everyone was talking about Tiger King.
No one really explained to me in detail about each of the key characters and gave me a basis of what they were like. It was just their opinion on whether or not Joe Exotic hired a hitman to kill Carol Baskin or not and whatever else there was to debate.
Finally, on November 29 of the disaster of a year we call 2020, I watched the first episode and I was not prepared.
I felt myself staring at the tv in disbelief as my dog slept next to me snoring. I couldn’t believe that the three people I was introduced to in the first episode were real. They seemed like caricatures of themselves (or at least Joe) or felt like they were characters in a book who were made up and exaggerated to make the story more interesting.
Bhagavan Antle seems not as erratic as Joe Exotic but I still don’t like him. Especially since I googled his name to see how to spell it and saw that he was indicted on wildlife trafficking charges.
Carol Baskin seems alright but at the same time it’s too early to judge and right now, to me, it seems like she’s still keeping the big cats in cages and profiting off of them. Granted, I don’t know if the space in her sanctuary is bigger than the space in Joe Exotics animal park but it kind of looks like it’s bigger.
Joe Exotic really made me uneasy though. I was handling the episode pretty well until the end when he became hostile towards animal rights activists when talking and purchased explosives and bullets then fired them off into a lake, saying they were animal rights activists or whatever before turning onto the dummy that, I assume, was supposed to be Carol Baskin.
I felt unsafe just watching him through the screen and I wasn’t anywhere near him. At the end of the episode, I was upset, appalled, and kind of scared if I’m honest.
And here I sit, watching The Princess and The Frog while typing this to ease away what I just watched.
I want to finish this little docuseries because it’s not right to watch one episode of something and then base your opinion on it and not watch the rest to know the whole story, especially something with accusations like hiring a hitman to kill someone. You need the whole story and know what went down.
So here I am, ending this post that’s my first post ever on here, with 10 minutes left on The Princess and The Frog, preparing myself for the next episode of Tiger King at 9:30 PM.
And with this said, I post this and bid you adieu.
