The 13 Best Twitter Reactions to Netflix’s Wild Docuseries Tiger King

If you were sitting at home last Friday night, wondering what to do with your evening now that going-out options were off the table thanks to social-distancing and shelter-in-place orders, chances are you tapped your Netflix app, perused the new offerings, and thought to yourself, What the heck is Tiger King?

And if you, like many, many others, decided that you absolutely needed to watch a docuseries about the rivalry between two big-cat owners that involves polygamy and accusations of murder, let alone hundreds of rare animals, then you went on the very wildest of rides. Tiger King is seven episodes of pure drama spanning decades. It follows Joe Exotic, country singer and lover of bedazzled bomber jackets, and Carole Baskin, an animal activist with a tragic past, whose rivalry drives ever more extreme behavior and, eventually, imprisonment. To say any more than that would be to rob you of the deep pleasure of discovering what’s around the corner at every turn, but suffice it to say that you’ll never be bored. (If you can’t get enough of the action, there’s a podcast about Joe and Carole, and a TV show starring Kate McKinnon is in development.)

Flashy Joe and animal-print-loving Carole make for meme bait, to be sure, and as viewers settled in for a weekend at home, they discovered the surprises together. On Twitter, they came together to share the most memorable moments. Here are the best tweets about the rollercoaster that is Tiger King—including a NSFW aside from Cardi B and a little tiff between Dax Shepard and Edward Norton over who should be cast as one of the main characters.