The temptation to tell a story with Joe Exotic at its center seems almost irresistible, though: Who wouldn’t be interested in a gay tiger breeder with multiple husbands who spends his free time feuding with an animal rights activist five states away? The twisty tale of Exotic’s fixation on Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin - and particularly on the mysterious disappearance of her second husband - has, by design, struck a chord with an audience that has already been trained by past true-crime documentaries to suspect conspiracies around every corner and to trumpet charming antiheroes. The trouble with training a camera on a man like Joe Exotic, the self-aggrandizing former zoo operator at the heart of Netflix’s overnight streaming sensation, is that it’s impossible to blunt his charisma if you let him go on for long enough, no matter what you do to the footage in the editing room. Narcissism is like a gas, expanding until it fills whatever space it enters, whether that’s a relationship, a presidency, or, in the case of Tiger King, a documentary.
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