Kate McKinnon’s Carole Baskin is a woman on a mission in full Joe vs. Carole trailer
The Peacock series is trying to add to the story that Netflix made famous with Tiger King
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Peacock has released the full trailer for its upcoming series Joe vs. Carole which means this show is really happening, huh? The new series, based on Wondery podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King, purports to tell the backstory that Netflix’s hit series Tiger King left on the cutting room floor. Whether Joe vs Carole will become a hit for the struggling streamer or, like Tiger King 2, will be dismissed as pretty much pointless, remains to be seen.
The series centers not on Joe Exotic but on his rival Carole Baskin, portrayed by Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon. In Peacock’s trailer, Carole is basically the number one eccentric cat lady. Together with her (second) husband Howard (Kyle MacLachlan), Carole is intent on protecting as many big cats as possible. However, when Carole finds out about the less than savory business practices of Joe Exotic (John Cameron Mitchell), she wants to get his business shutdown to protect the big cats in his possession. But that makes Carole Joe’s number one enemy, and his personal brand of chaos soon takes over her life.
From the trailer, it seems the show will also cover the filming of the Tiger King series, which left the real Baskin feeling betrayed by the producers. Meanwhile, in the real world, Joe Exotic’s 22-year prison sentence was just shortened… to 21 years. And why is the Tiger King in prison at all? For trying to talk an undercover FBI agent into trying to murder Carole Baskin.
The series also stars Brian Van Holt, Sam Keeley, Nat Wolff, Marlo Kelly, William Fichtner, Dean Winters, and David Wenham.
The series was written by Etan Frankel (Shameless), who serves as showrunner. Justin Tipping directed five episodes, with Natalie Bailey directing the other three. All eight, hour-long episodes will drop on Peacock on March 3.
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psh. call me when someone makes a fictional documentary of this movie.
This seems like a movie made by the devil to show film critics who are in hell.
I assume that’s most film critics.
It feels like this is already at least 22 months late to cash in on this fad.
Baskin herself was slandered in the first Tiger King as she did not kill her husband and implying she did was nothing but misogyny in the guise of “balance” so…yeah. That sh*t should have gone out of fashion in 2016.
Everything is misogyny, right?
Why is this?
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to see this
Once more, fuck everyone involved with profiting off giving airtime to these lowlife animal abusing shit stains.
because nobody on the internet seems to want this i suspect it might be a gigantic hit with normal people.
“Normal people” are the ones who don’t use the internet?
yes. normal people don’t use website comment sections or twitter. we are weirdos.
Unfortunately, it’s exclusive to streaming. So it will only be available to people who use the internet.
The series was written by Etan Frankel (Shameless), who serves as showrunner.
Well judging by the last half dozen seasons of Shameless, this does…. not bode well. Yet feels oddly fitting.
Video unavailable. Probably for the best.
Hey, I DJd the wrap party for this and it seemed even the crew was way over anything related to Tiger King.