The first season of Tiger King must provide a disturbing but colorful cornucopia for viewers afflicted by the pandemic, full of crooks, dirty balls, braggarts, buns, idiots, and narcissists. So it’s no surprise that the second part of this documentary series-although its imprisoned central character and former animal park owner Joe Exotic has much more limited air time-at least if you can bear it. Broadcast more of the same content. This mess attracted a lot of flies, Tiger King 2 continues to record the endless quarrel between a group of gloomy low-level animal collectors and the unfortunate crooks who entered their orbits, while also checking out the parasites that were brought to the attention of the first season. .

The latter are common carpet packers: a revengeful predecessor, a flaunting lawyer, a very fragile psychic, and the woman who hired him to expose her father's death eventually had to comfort him at the alleged crime scene. Add a new character to the familiar group of vampires: an amateur real crime investigator. Jack "The Ripper" Smith so cleverly hinted to Don Lewis's family that his family tried to prove that Carol Baskin was responsible for his disappearance, and they brought him to them when they met with the police. He even succeeded in getting them to fire their lawyer John Phillips (another work). "They chose the Ripper instead of me," Phillips explained sadly to the camera he apparently liked very much. Although Ripper is someone who "just sits in a gaming chair and makes YouTube videos."

Smith’s RipperJack Media channel produced endless, patience-testing videos that, despite appearing in a high-profile Netflix documentary, allowed him to gain an unremarkable 15,000 fans. They talk about dark allusions, vague language, and mixed metaphors, but lack persuasive details. In a recent example, the Ripper’s warning exacerbated the confusion. Don’t "Always believe what I say here." everything of". In addition to the "investigation" of Lewis' disappearance, he also released commentary videos on cases such as the murder of Gabby Petito and other cases that may become favorites of Internet detectives. There is also a 10-minute demo on how to find the "Tiger King 2" trailer on the Netflix website, but Smith obviously couldn't lower the volume of Netflix's automatic playback of the promo. This channel is about what you expect from someone who announced in Tiger King 2 that "I got a lawyer's degree from Google".

Real crime-ridden detectives want to solve real crime problems. This character is increasingly appearing in novels, whether portrayed affectionately (Hulu’s only murder building) or as a cautionary story (from TBS’s search party/ HBO). It can be said that this genre can be traced back to Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", which is a novel about a young woman so immersed in Gothic novels. Hope to find the secret room and murder conspiracy while visiting the ancient mansion named for this book. The real-life versions of these amateur detectives have convinced themselves that they can find the answer to any mystery by searching photos and videos in their comfortable gaming chair, looking for "clues". This illusion led to collapses such as the infamous Find Boston Bombers subreddit, which mistakenly identified the 2013 terrorist attack as two innocent people. The explosive growth of TikTok videos about finding Petito earlier this year is more offensive than dangerous, imposing unprepared and morally incompetent influencers on the position of censoring theories and rumors before passing them on to hundreds Million viewers.

In all fairness, most of the crooks and speculators in Tiger King 2 are much worse than Smith the Ripper-on the one hand, he lacks their cunning, and his obvious sincerity is a charm killer. In the United States, we like the performance skills of those who try to snow us, which is why, as Slate’s Willa Paskin has observed, Joe Exotic is considered the most flattering among this group of people. He just needs the public to love him so deeply that we are flattered, and we are willing to let him benefit from suspicion. In that game, no one could beat him in the sequel to Tiger King 2 or the new cast. But everyone in the "Tiger King" series is performing an obvious man-made identity, from Baskin’s weird flower girl cooing to the empty roar of men like zoo owner Tim Stark, and they are acting on law enforcement. His militant behavior would have him shot ten times if he was not white.

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This hypocritical behavior includes filmmakers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, who, in order to be fair, took this opportunity to take the (considered extremely unflattering) Baskin again due to the disappearance of Lewis Drag it under review. Now there are no more excuses, knowing how eagerly many viewers regard her as the villain of a story in which she tries to prevent a group of swaggering men from cruelly treating animals. Once again, the thin evidence of Baskin's guilt was carefully studied, as if it were too telling, to complete the absurd animation of the dotted line running on the map near the couple and the crazy chase about a truck of guns. For real crimes, the bargaining method regards anything slightly strange as extremely important, and never explains what it should mean. Tiger King 2 at least also revealed that Lewis may have deliberately disappeared (he wanted to move to Costa Rica to have sex with a 15-year-old girl), died in an accident (he liked to put his plane on a jungle airstrip to escape government observers), or be caught by other Murder (he shipped a suspicious large amount of cash out of the country for overseas money laundering).

Maybe this will make some viewers believe that the case is more complicated than the Baskin haters think, but it's not Ripper Smith. Baskin sued Netflix and Royal Goode Productions Inc. to prevent Goode and Chaiklin from using the first season footage they shot for her in "Tiger King 2." She did not agree to appear in the show. Smith greeted the news happily, as if Baskin's attempt to disrupt the second season of the show confirmed that she had something to hide. However, Lewis' children did not end by discovering the fate of their father, but saw his predatory behavior on the largest streaming media service in the United States.

Likewise, Baskin's refusal to answer Ripper's phone calls—as if he had any right to expect her—was considered by him to imply that she was guilty and determined to avoid the "truth". Tiger King 2 has carried out a detailed review of details, such as Baskin did not write down her battle with Lewis in the diary, or where she was in a specific period of the timeline, and the timeline was hopeless from the beginning Temporarily rigorous style, not substance. In the worst case-no matter what appears in "Tiger King" is always the worst-true crime fanatics look like UFO sightings, smudged photos of "ghosts" and other "unexplainables" The subculture of the "phenomenon": Anything can be the evidence you want to believe if you really want to believe it.

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