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My unpopular (and I know it is unpopular!) opinion about Tiger King is that the characters are neither quirky nor interesting, they just serve as reasons for class superiority by bourgeois viewers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/02/drama-appeal-tiger-king-is-century-making/
If you have spent any time outside of major urban areas and their well-manicured suburbs, you have seen people like Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin, who are the biggest things in town and who are eccentric and violent in ways your comfortable friends could only dream of appropriating
Going to get Ratioed on this one but I stand by it. The show is another way to subtly mock the poor and working-class including the visitors to the tiger compounds. Basically the modern acceptable form of bear-baiting or dog fights, with all the scornful class implications.
Just go to rural Pennsylvania, upstate New York, anywhere in Appalachia or the entirety of Florida just once. You'll see that being "messy" isn't a cute urban act that arises out of boredom with privilege.
Behold this very accurate piece. https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/04/netflix-tiger-king-is-an-ethical-trainwreck/609568/
Another good article looking at similar class dynamics, h/t @JordanWildon https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/aug/11/joseph-gilgun-interview-brassic-this-is-england-preacher
*stares directly into camera* https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/tiger-king-director-coronavirus-eric-goode-staff-bar-grill
One thing, I'm a good judge of character
