‘Tiger King’: ‘Doc’ Antle and Jeff Lowe speak out against docuseries
CNNCNN — Bhagavan “Doc” Antle doesn’t think people should take “Tiger King” very seriously. He told The Media Exchange that it’s “not a documentary.” “This is a salacious, outrageous ride through a television show produced to create drama, to just tie you in to some crazy train wreck of a story between the feud of Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic and the meltdown that ensued between two people who both are far too close to murder themselves, and I think a little bit of madness thrown in on their parts,” Antle said in a video interview. “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” follows the life and alleged crimes of big cat enthusiast Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic aka Tiger King who was sentenced to 22 years in prison in January after he was convicted on multiple charges including an alleged murder-for-hire plot against his nemesis, Baskin. “Tiger King’s” co-directors and writers, Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, responded to Baskin in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.