Exotic animals, criminal plots and very bad mullets – Netflix's new docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness hooks you in from its first few bizarre minutes.
The seven-part doco – which dropped on Netflix this week – begins with a grim statistic: There are more tigers sitting in cages across the USA than there are left in the wild.
From there, Tiger King takes viewers inside the fierce rivalries that exist among the underworld of big cat dealers across the US. These deeply eccentric people trade and breed lions, tigers and other big cats, keeping them in their own private zoos and often exploiting them for profit.
It's a tragic story for the cats stuck in cages – but directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin (Goode appears occasionally on camera Louis Theroux-style, giving the subjects enough rope to hang themselves) are far more interested in the unbelievable human stories to be found.
