Kate McKinnon transforms into Carole Baskin for Peacock's new drama, , which has set a launch date for Thursday, March. 3. All eight hour-long episodes will drop that day.The upcoming series, which stars John Cameron Mitchell as Joe Exotic and is based on the Wondry podcast, follows Carole Baskin (McKinnon), a big cat enthusiast who learns that fellow exotic animal lover, Joe «Exotic» Schreibvogel, is breeding and using his big cats for profit.
As she sets out to shut down his illegal activities, it incites a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy, heightening tensions to dangerous levels. “ is a wild ride.
It's a fun and rich journey into the story of people who live very extreme lives," showrunner and executive producer Etan Frankel said in a statement. «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 just maybe they'll see these people that they thought they knew in a brand-new way.»«We knew it would take two extraordinary actors to portray these larger-than-life people as the complex, three-dimensional individuals that they are,» Frankel continued, praising the two leads. «John Cameron Mitchell is one of the most gifted and thoughtful actors I've ever worked with.
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