Hey cool cats and kittens, Tiger King is back. Well, sort of: the dramatisation of everyone’s favourite lockdown true-crime story and big cat feud, Joe vs. Carole, has arrived. And like the story it’s based on, it’s wilder than a pride of lions.
Here's why you should tune in 👇
Here's why you should tune in 👇
🐅The casting is purrfect
Kate McKinnon and Cameron Mitchell have found the humanity as well as the humour in their characters. Mitchell captures Exotic’s hunger for attention. While McKinnon gives Baskin gravitas: her ambition and motivations are underpinned by loss and sadness
Kate McKinnon and Cameron Mitchell have found the humanity as well as the humour in their characters. Mitchell captures Exotic’s hunger for attention. While McKinnon gives Baskin gravitas: her ambition and motivations are underpinned by loss and sadness
🐅It’s more fun than a petting zoo
It pokes fun at the oddballs in the big cat community. Exotic paints a sheep with tiger stripes and strolls into a gay bar with a big cat on a leash. Baskin dances to Maroon 5’s ‘Moves Like Jagger’ as she celebrates an animal abuser's demise
It pokes fun at the oddballs in the big cat community. Exotic paints a sheep with tiger stripes and strolls into a gay bar with a big cat on a leash. Baskin dances to Maroon 5’s ‘Moves Like Jagger’ as she celebrates an animal abuser's demise
🐅It’s a chance to give Tiger King another hearing
There’s depth in Mitchell’s depiction of Exotic, while in McKinnon’s hands Baskin is no longer a wacky cat lady with an unsavoury past, but a woman who has constantly butted up against the barriers of sexism, abuse and misogyny
There’s depth in Mitchell’s depiction of Exotic, while in McKinnon’s hands Baskin is no longer a wacky cat lady with an unsavoury past, but a woman who has constantly butted up against the barriers of sexism, abuse and misogyny
🐅Though you can still hiss at them
Mitchell is great at demonstrating how sinister the manipulative side to Exotic can be, as he seduces one of his employees. Meanwhile, McKinnon shows how blindly obstinate Baskin is, especially when her compassion mutates into cruelty
Mitchell is great at demonstrating how sinister the manipulative side to Exotic can be, as he seduces one of his employees. Meanwhile, McKinnon shows how blindly obstinate Baskin is, especially when her compassion mutates into cruelty
🐅The wigs are wilder than the animals
The many wigs on display are outlandish: from Baskin’s uncontrollable frizz to Exotic’s crispy looking mullet, these are some seriously shocking hairdos. Don’t miss them
The many wigs on display are outlandish: from Baskin’s uncontrollable frizz to Exotic’s crispy looking mullet, these are some seriously shocking hairdos. Don’t miss them
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