‘Joe vs Carole’ Teaser: ‘It’s War’ in Peacock’s Scripted Take on ‘Tiger King’ (Video)

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video above. We’re not sure which of the actors are more pitch-perfect.Based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” hosted and reported by Robert Moor, the limited series will center on Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit.

She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry, the limited series’ logline reads. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy.The synopsis concludes: “The results prove dangerous.” They sure do!“Joe vs Carole is a wild ride.

It’s a fun and rich journey into the story of people who live very extreme lives,” showrunner Etan Frankel said in a note to media. ”When I took on this project a year and a half ago, I found Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin to be utterly fascinating, and this crazy tale about two big cat lovers quickly became an important story for me to tell.

I hope that when people watch Joe vs Carole just maybe they’ll see these people that they thought they knew in a brand-new way.