I will just say, out of all the pieces done for this Netflix Event, this one has been the most self-indulgent. I love drawing Discord, I love his chaos gremlin attitude towards everything and everyone, and I think nobody else could’ve been used to represent Joe Exotic in this picture. He’s pretty much built for the role. The idea of putting Movie Slate in a tiger fursuit was mine though, because it made sense to me. Besides if you’re familiar with the things that got cut from the documentary, you’ll understand why I decided to put her in that.
 
I know, I’m a monster.
 
I don’t think there’s anything I could say about “Tiger King” that hasn’t been said before. In terms of documentaries it’s easy to talk about many of them, discuss things and the subject matter, but going into this is like falling down a rabbit hole where the bottom cannot be seen, because it makes a loop and you go back to the beginning. I was first introduced to this documentary in the same week it premiered, and the only thing that motivated me to watch it was that it involved a couple of the guys from the “Fyre” documentary and…Fisher Stevens!? So I had to check it out of course.
 
I watched one episode, and put it down. Said it was too much. Then the next day I watched the whole thing, and I had to take a good long pause from watching anything else. I don’t think I watched anything for a couple of days, which to me that’s unheard of, since I always have something playing in the background. It’s not because I was in shock, I was rather digesting everything that the documentary touches upon, which I think is the biggest failing. The pacing is pretty relentless, and before you realize you’re given a situation that’s horrific followed relatively close by another occurrence of ridiculousness, which you’d say is too goofy except this is all real. And that’s where the worst aspect bleeds onto the best aspect of this whole series.
 
The fact that it’s all real goes to show that fiction will never be able to be as entertaining and insane as reality. Granted that’s also what makes it so upsetting, especially for the sake of the poor animals who were just used as mere props to fulfil the madness of these people. It’s a fittingly upsetting documentary, which I sworn to watch only once. A promise that only lasted a couple of weeks, and since then I’ve re-watched it a couple of times. It’s horrific, but it’s wildly entertaining, like a train wreck made out of flaming dumpsters.
 
If you enjoy drama, and you haven’t seen this one yet, give it a watch. Much like this short blurb it’s all over the place, but it’s difficult to take your eyes from it.