original true-crime series sees Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell battling it out as Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic, respectively, in a scripted version of the Wondery podcast about the self-proclaimed Tiger King.
The eight-part limited series centers on the ongoing personal and legal fight between Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, and Exotic, who breeds big cats for profit.
After learning about his Oklahoma park, she’s determined to shut it down. But doing so incites a quickly escalating and dangerous rivalry that eventually captures the attention of America. “ is a wild ride.
It’s a fun and rich journey into the story of people who live very extreme lives. When I took on this project a year and a half ago, I found Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin to be utterly fascinating, and this crazy tale about two big cat lovers quickly became an important story for me to tell,” showrunner Etan Frankel says in a statement.
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