It’s been 18 months since Tiger King exploded onto Netflix and captivated a pandemic-lockdown world with the crazy tales of Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin and their respective tiger centers – and now the streaming service has announced that Tiger King 2 is ‘coming soon.’
Tiger King commentary and theorising effectively took over social media, with many viewers divided into Team Carole or Team Joe Exotic.
Rebecca Chaiklin, who directed the original with Eric Goode, had already seemed to be pondering a Tiger King 2 last year in an interview with EW.
She has also been extremely critical of the Netflix series, writing online after its 2020 release that the filmmakers “did not care about the truth.