Matthew Carey When directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin began collaborating on a documentary series about the strange world of exotic animal breeders, they thought it might generate modest attention.“We were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls. “But we sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in.”Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness wound up attracting not just a “few people”, but a stampede after it dropped on Netflix in March.
And when the Emmy nominations were announced, Tiger King snared half a dozen of them, the most of any documentary. Netflix earned a record 160 Emmy nominations in all, a tidy number coming in documentary categories, where it lapped the field:.
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