Tiger King’s Carole Baskin rips into Netflix’s season two announcement

Millions of fans will be happy to hear mayhem and madness is back with a second season of Tiger King. Carole Baskin is not one of them.

Tiger King is roaring back into action with Netflix confirming the obsession-making docuseries is returning for a second season.

And it’s promised mayhem, madness and mullets. The best Ms when it comes to big cat collectors.

But not everyone is happy about it – namely, Carole Baskin.

Baskin released a statement after Netflix’s announcement. She said: “I don’t know how they put out a Tiger King 2 when Joe Schreibvogel’s (aka Joe Exotic) in jail and I’m refusing to be played again.

“(Tiger King director) Rebecca Chaiklin said she wanted to ‘clear the air’ about what they did to me in Tiger King. I told her to lose my number. There is no explanation for such a betrayal and false portrayal.”

She also told Variety: “I know some people who have been involved in it and they were doing more filming, so I assumed at some point they would come out with a Tiger King 2. It took them five years to put together the first one, so I thought it would be a lot longer.

“I wouldn’t call Eric Goode or Rebecca Chaiklin true documentarians. I mean that was just a reality show dumpster fire.”

Baskin has been distancing herself from Tiger King since the release of the first season. She said her portrayal was inaccurate.

Tiger King’s Carole Baskin was not a fan of the show. Picture: Netflix

Joe Exotic’s doozy murder-for-hire story was the buzziest show of the first wave of Covid lockdowns, a moment of collective fascination as everyone watched on, disbelieving of all the twists and turns.

The story was so wild, you couldn’t make it up. Joe Exotic is currently serving a 22-year sentence for his plot to kill Carole Baskin.

Netflix claimed 64 million households sampled at two minutes of the series in the first month after release.

The second season doesn’t have a date beyond “this year” but with only three months to go, fans won’t have to wait long.

There’s also a dramatised version of the Joe Exotic story in the works with John Cameron Mitchell to play the title role and Kate McKinnon will star as Baskin.

Tiger King was a quarantine sensation. Picture: Netflix US / AFP

Tiger King 2 is only the first of a slate of true crime docos Netflix announced today.

The other four are:

The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman: This series comes from the team behind The Imposter and will tell the story of a brazen conman who was convicted in 2005 for theft and destroying lives. The series will also follow into the present day in which a family fears for their mother’s safety. Due for release in January.

Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King: This film will unravel the sudden death of crypto millionaire Gerry Cotten, who died in 2018. At the time of his death, he had $CA250 million in bitcoin in his possession and the keys to unlocking that fortune went him to his grave. Due in 2022.

The Tinder Swindler: Directed by Felicity Morris, the movie is the story of the women who unmasked a prolific conman who posed as a billionaire playboy on Tinder. Due in February.

Bad Vegan: Celebrity restaurateur Sarma Melngailis had famous clients flocking to her food, including Alec Baldwin and Chelsea Clinton. Then her empire crumbled and she found herself a wanted fugitive – and behind it all is a man who convinced her he had the power to make her dog immortal. Due in 2022.

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