Tiger King: Who's Really in the Cage?
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE SHOW TIGER KING
Tiger King is a bizarre show for bizarre times. The ‘true-crime documentary series’ gives a window into the peculiar ‘underworld of big cat breeding’. It opens with the shocking fact that there are more tigers in captivity in North America than in the wild globally.
At least, I found that shocking at first. Seven episodes later, someone has lost their arm to a tiger, a man has accidentally killed himself, and ‘Joe Exotic’, the polygamous, arson-committing, country-singing owner of 1200 big cats has run for president before being convicted of the attempted murder of an animal rights activist who maybe killed her husband.
And breathe.
This article is one in a series (Connecting with Culture) from the the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity