Having avoided "Tiger King" at the start of lockdown, until it became unavoidable, I eventually found the series to a good piece of entertainment, but as a documentary lacking in objectivity and preferring hyperbole over facts. That, if anything, is even worse in this wholly unnecessary second season.
The overwhelming international success of Netflix's "Tiger King" documentary makes worldwide stars of all of the people involved. Whilst Carole Baskin moves on to "Dancing with The Stars" and Jeff Lowe tries to determine where the best place for his animals are, Joe Exotic remains in prison. There are factions though, inspired by the series, who attempt to convince then President Trump to pardon Exotic.
The problem with this second season is, as I say, it's wholly unnecessary, certainly at this stage in proceedings. With Carole unwilling to participate this time, her space is filled by a whole range of other lunatics, offering opinions based on nothing but speculation. Chief perpetrator of nonsense this time is a solicitor, John Phillips, who represents Don Lewis' family at the start of the series but is then fired, only to jump to Joe Exotic's defence team. It's almost as if he's only interested in the publicity of the case. . . But it couldn't be that.
The documentary suffers because the whole story is covered extensively by the news now. We know going in that the Presidential pardon isn't forthcoming, that Carole now owns Joe's former zoo and that nothing of any note has happened in the Don Lewis case. It gets round this by pretending to have revelations from John Phillips investigations, which generally turn out of the damp squibs and by focussing on one of the other nutcases, Tim Stark, who constantly threatens figures of authority with foulmouthed tirades about what will happen if they come to take his animals, then runs away when the time comes.
I'm not saying that there shouldn't ever have been any follow up on "Tiger King", particularly if Phillip's manages to pull enough vagaries together to argue for a mistrial, but this is far too soon and far too unfocused to feel like anything other than a rake over the old ground again.