Joe Exotic TV show is going straight to Peacock
Screenshot: Netflix
Gather round, children, for a tale about the first week of the pandemic. Sports were canceled, people hoarded toilet paper, and Netflix released docu-series about weirdos in Florida that were breeding, trading, and imprisoning endangered big cats.
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escaped the cages of Netflix’s algorithm and took over the “discourse.” Since then, there was a gold rush for the adaptation rights, with several different ones being announced (a la the SteveJobs movie rights of the mid-2010s). On the one hand, the showrunners of
have an adaptation starring Nicolas Cage as Exotic in the works. On the other, NBC set the stage for their own version starring John Cameron Mitchell as Exotic and Kate McKinnon as his rival, the hippy with the mysteriously missing husband Carole Baskin (though one imagines a world where McKinnon is playing Exotic, and there is no war and no one goes hungry). Interestingly enough, it se