‘Tiger King 2’ is official: Netflix is bringing back Joe Exotic’s ‘madness’
hyped in the cryptic tweet.Meanwhile, the original “Tiger King” docuseries, which premiered in March of 2020, was one of the early hits of the pandemic before “Ted Lasso” and “The Queen’s Gambit” — racking up views from a staggering 64 million households, as a population trapped indoors became captivated by the bizarre story of Joe Exotic. The gay polygamist zookeeper and aspiring politician (real name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage), 58, is currently incarcerated in a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, after being convicted of a murder-for-hire plot against his rival, animal rights activist Carole Baskin, 60, who is herself the subject of speculation regarding her missing husband, Don Lewis.