HORROR SHOW: ANIMAL CRUELTY, KILLING AND EVIL There are an estimated 7-10,000 tigers living in captivity. There are 4,000 or less in the wild. Tigers are on the Endangered Species list. How? Well. seems PETA and any other animal "ACTIVISTS" out there can't seem to ever put a stop to it. Ever. But the power and big dollars of Netflix entertainment was able to round up the pea brains, toothless meth addicts and brawn that surrounded one especially heinous and flamboyant animal harming monster, Joe "Exotic".
Netflix wove his story together into a popular documentary, brimming with eyewitnesses who testify as to Joe Exotic's for profit tiger and other big cats breeding operation, exploitation, big money trade. and the killing of those big cats. All told with graphic description of unspeakable horrors that transpired, without pain or penalty, for years and years. Of course not ONE of these people came forward to intervene until Netflix appeared and they all saw a chance for 15 minutes of TV time. Then those very same people were able to relate, in explicit and sickening detail, all of Joe Exotic's harm, violation and maltreatment. Even jumping at the chance to testify in Federal Court to lock him away for years.
Seems that Joe Exotic's undoing actually came about - NOT from the heinous and senseless mistreatment and killing of animals, but instead when he decided to hire a lowlife, low budget acquaintance for the sum of $3,000 to "cap" his nemesis, a "big cat activist" near Tampa, Florida, by the name of Carole Baskin. Incidentally, in an odd twist, one of Joe's motivating factors to seeing to the demise of Carole Baskin. was the mysterious disappearance of her millionaire husband, Don Lewis, in the 90s.
Regardless, its tough to get a conviction to stick on a "murder for hire" charge, but crafty Federal prosecutors decided to throw animal abuse charges into the mix as well. Everyone "hates" animal abuse, just wont do anything to stop it. That was just the ticket to pull the cockroaches out of the baseboard. Suddenly Joe's employees, business partners, former employees, ex husband, and others were falling over themselves to appear on camera to relate horrific stories AND to testify in court as to the vile, inhumane and despicable treatment of animals entrusted to his "care" and the senseless killing of some of those innocent and noble ENDANGERED creatures. There was also the key testimony that cemented the murder for hire arrangement. The prosecutor's plan worked, and Joe Exotic was convicted to 22 years. Ironically. he now sits like one of the tigers he abused, in a cage with no chance for escape.
The most disturbing part of this documentary is that its true. Not "based on" the truth, as the ensuing film will be, but real life. There are no actors and sets: just those who lived it and witnessed it foe years. Fortunately, Joe Exotic was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison. Feather in the Fed's cap as it is, there are plenty more just like this guy out there. Netflix invites some other of them for their chance to be seen in all their their old man and some ponytailed glory onscreen as well. (As an aside, its must be the KoolAid that draws young, attractive women to those old codgers with bad teeth and aged, disgusting skin growths?). Nonetheless, Joe is spilling the secrets of ongoing animal evil and wrongdoing by those same scumbags from the confines of his jail cell. Nothing is being done about it, of course, because apparently none of those lowlife are as stupid as Joe so as to attempt hire to kill schemes. The animal abuse doesnt rate the same investigation, prosecution and penalties as"talking about" killing a woman.
BEWARE: Watch this if you don't care about the evils of animal cruelty in this world, or because Netflix advertises it on your streaming service, or because your brother thought it was good. Otherwise, it will haunt you, and you wont be able to unsee or unhear it. There is a wrap up with Joel McHale, wherein he interviews the director of the so-called "reality show" that had been planned about Joe Exotic. This particular man ran off to Norway, but freely admits his guilt and regret over his involvement with Joe Exotic. One particularly unsettling occurrence he witnessed was Joe's killing of an old horse. A woman asked Exotic to pasture the horse for the rest of its natural life on his many acres of land. Joe assured her that he would. Instead, he shot the horse with a revolver and had it slaughtered and fed to the tigers. Seems there was no age, breed or gender of animal Joe Exotic couldn't hurt or kill. Here's hoping Netflix can round up the next band of hyenas to spill on another one of these demonic abusers - but perhaps this time before they kill off hundreds of additional tigers and big cats and other innocent creatures.