First off, let me say that the marketing of this series was misleading. You go into it expecting to be the story of this Joe Exotic person and ends up being about three different tiger themed parks and their eccentric owners, including Joe. Eccentric is putting it mildly. They are all nuts and in my opinion dangerous.
Anyway, the series itself was shot pretty well, and despite all the different perspectives, they did manage to make it presentable.
That being said, I found the series to be frustrating and pointless. Basically, its the individual owners I detest the most. Having to hear each one was an experience in patience for myself, as they all seem to be egotistical narcissists. The creators in the series, I assume had good intentions, as they did try to edit in a way of hearing each ones perspectives, thereby making it "unbiased", but instead, all they did was provide all of them publicity and the continued feeding of their greed and ego's. I am sure this series will split the viewers into their own susceptible view points and have their own person to root for. There are no good guys here, and no one, and I mean no one can be trusted. In the end, it was left to the viewer, not really giving any kind of constructive conclusion. I would like to have seen more neutral parties outside of any relationship with each of the tiger owners, but all you get are lawyers, friends, employees/volunteers and family members, all of which were extremely untrustworthy.
If there is one silver lining that can come from all of this, is that there is indeed an exotic animal breeding problem in the US, and this series can shed some light, however small, into the actual problem. Unfortunately, it focuses almost entirely on the perpetrators behaviors and antics for the sake of entertainment, rather than the real victims in all of this... the animals.
Review of Tiger King
