Watch ‘Tiger King’ Season 2 Review: Netflix Sensation Overstays Its Welcome
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“‘Tiger King’ Season 2 Review: Netflix Sensation Overstays Its Welcome”
Watching the new installments of Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode’s series now, in a world far removed from the one in which it first premiered, is surreal. The first episode almost entirely deals with the effect “Tiger King” had on its subjects, most of whom apparently spent the darkest days of the pandemic ignoring it completely and charging crowds of fans for selfies. Baskin went on “Dancing With the Stars” and uploaded dozens of videos of herself reading old diary entries to discourage internet sleuths from digging into the cold case of her second husband’s disappearance — a gambit that has, unsurprisingly, backfired spectacularly as people trawl through her every video for more clues. Meanwhile, Joe Exotic is still in prison after failing to get a presidential pardon from Donald Trump before he left office, but continues to make righteous vows of vengeance over the phone against all those who have ever wronged him.
It’s undeniably compelling to watch these already lurid characters react to their sudden fame, even if in a perverse sort of way. In a standout scene, Joe Exotic sympathizers mill about the Capitol early on January 6 of this year in hopes of getting Trump’s attention for a pardon, only to have the protestors reject them first. (As they leave D.C., one gets an alert about the developing chaos happening behind them and sadly voices the hope that their “PARDON JOE EXOTIC” banner at least got some attention.) And seeing how the sensationalized series encouraged some of its worst actors to double down, knowing that doing so will feed their rabid new fanbase, is more illuminating than the series itself seems to realize as it thrusts them back into the warm embrace of the spotlight.
After that meta first episode, though, this new season of “Tiger King” reveals the show for what it truly is, especially as it haphazardly explores the disappearance of Don Lewis. While it initially lucked into a charismatic cast that captured the nation’s attention at a truly unique moment in history, at its core, “Tiger King” is a middling true-crime series on a streaming service chock full of the same, that furthermore lacks the attention span to dig deeper into the crucial context of its many, many stories. Today, many of us are less confined to our homes, or at least have figured out better uses of our time since the extraordinary circumstances of last spring became rather more ordinary. Now that the circus has moved on, “Tiger King” is just no longer half as compelling a sideshow as it once was.
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