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2ND UPDATE: The sequel series to Tiger King has been on Netflix for almost a month now, and today Carole Baskin’s lawsuit against the streamer and others over the Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode directed franchise is over.

Tiger King 2 is here!

If you had any doubt there was going to be drama galore out of Tiger King 2, Big Cat Rescue boss Carole Baskin has taken a legal bite out of Netflix over two weeks before the Rebecca Chaiklin & Eric Goode helmed sequel series even debuts

Carole Baskin isn’t happy about Tiger King 2.

Tell us how you really feel, Carole Baskin!

Big news for big cat lovers! Tiger King 2 is coming to Netflix — and soon.

It’s official: Tiger King 2 is coming to Netflix, and it’s coming in 2021!

Matthew Carey When directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin began collaborating on a documentary series about the strange world of exotic animal breeders, they thought it might generate modest attention.“We were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls. “But we sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in.”Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness wound up attracting not just a “few people”, but a stampede after it dropped on Netflix in March.

Matthew Carey Long before Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin became household names, before Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness turned into one of the most successful documentary series of all time, directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin embarked on something they little suspected would become a cultural mega-hit.“We sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in, and we were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls.

Carole Baskin is not happy about the way she’s portrayed in Netflix’s surprise-hit docuseries “Tiger King”, and she’s speaking out to allege she was betrayed by series producers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin.

Carole Baskin is not happy about the way she’s portrayed in Netflix’s surprise-hit docuseries “Tiger King”, and she’s speaking out to allege she was betrayed by series producers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin.

"He said things that were very unsettling"

Following the huge success of, it’s not surprising that Netflix would want to make more episodes for fans who are still clamoring for anything that they can get their hands on about Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin and others at the center of the docuseries.

An interesting choice

An interesting choice

Joe Exotic, the famed and currently incarcerated subject of the wildly popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” has an interesting cast of players he would want to portray him if a screenplay on his life story made it to production -- and the list is very short. "He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him," said Rebecca Chaiklin, one of the filmmakers who brought the project to the masses.

Joe Exotic has made his picks!

Celebrities like Dax Shepard and Jared Leto are clamoring to play “Tiger King’s” Joe Exotic in a biopic based on the hit Netflix docuseries. Online betters, with sports to wager on, are putting their money on Kevin Bacon in the titular role.

Several of the subjects of the hit Netflix documentary series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” are speaking out against the filmmakers, calling the finished product “salacious” and “outrageous.” Key characters in the story of former zookeeper Joseph Maldonado-Passage (better known as Joe Exotic) have come forward to bash co-directors and writers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin for allegedly sensationalizing the feud between Joe and Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin.

It didn’t take long, but the Netflix docuseries,, has already gotten pushback from some of the colorful personalities featured in this unbelievably true tale about a big cat breeder and roadside zoo owner named Joe Exotic and his longtime nemesis, Carole Baskin, an animal activist and owner of the Big Cat Rescue sanctuary. 

Late in Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, directing partners Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin are on the road, discussing the latest twist in a five-year storytelling journey that eventually became a seven-episode Netflix series. "It was sorta funny when we started," Chaiklin remarks.