Tiger King is, inarguably, the biggest TV show of quarantine. It’s a massive, stunning success for Netflix, a show that somehow turns a cult leader, a drug dealer and a one-legged hillbilly into bona fide anti-heroes. No doubt, then, some idiot is going to try and become the next Joe Exotic. And raising a tiger might work out for a while — until it doesn’t, and you wind up like the guy who ended up a meal for the Siberian tiger he was raising in his Harlem apartment.
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Jeff Gross
Jeff Gross is MEL’s senior editor for social media and content marketing. His daily ICYMI column, which chronicles all things meta on the site, is the quickest way to catch up on MEL, and the funniest thing you’ll read all day. Follow him on Twitter.
