Needles & Grooves

Check my last post in the Country thread.

Yup! Also, can see why people are enamored with Tiger King per his eccentric-nes but he was/is a terrible human being.

@Memo People are getting enamored with him? I took it as very much as everyone treating it like a car crash.

@A Lost Highway enamored is the wrong word. Fascinated is what I meant.

It’s horrendous in every way and utterly, inexplicably compelling. They are all the worst people possible!

Yeah, I haven’t watched this, and most likely won’t. This is exactly the cultural zeitgeist media I make it a point of not watching. Everything about it screams “nooooooope!”

It was wild and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. It is full of twists and turns. It will also make you say “WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!” At least twenty times. Also, my wife does not as a general rule like this stuff and she was also entranced.

The people are horrible. The animals are barely the focus (which is sad because it could have been a great vehicle for advocating for them). It is fascinating in that "thank god that isn't my life" kind of way. I honestly can't decide if it is something you would enjoy or not, Chuck. There are a lot of guns and explosions.

The filmmaker acknowledges early on that it is not what he expected to make when he started the project in 2014. I think he was interested in making a documentary about animals but.... there was all this craziness happening.

We’re all in agreement that she fed her second husband to the tigers though right?

Oh absolutely she did! That sardine oil comment later on? Oddly specific, Carol.

@Lee Newman, that filmmaker (although there are actually two), Eric Goode, is primarily a conservationist so you're correct. He actually has a crazy background of his own, being a visual artist in the 80s, starting Area Nightclub, then making music videos for NIN, before getting in the hotel business and then finally a conservationist!

What baffles me the most is the drug and sexual manipulation these people had for their employees. They kind of touch on it for a good half hour, but I felt they could've dug deeper into that. The living conditions were abysmal.

@Teeeee, guns and explosions are great, except when they’re not. I think what turns me off about this kind of television is what draws in most others. Watching cringey train wrecks of people doesn’t fascinate me. I’ve had enough of that in my real life. Their stories just make me sad.

I get that totally. I use it as a way to validate that my life and life choices are pretty darn good in comparison.

I’m just reaching a point of total boredom and it gives me a common topic of conversation to text a friend from work about

I'm also curious as to who, if anybody, this benefited. It didn't benefit the people on it, and it for sure didn't provide any benefit to viewers. They had good intentions starting out with animal welfare, but took a nosedive when they were entertained by a drug addicts persona. If anything, them being there heightened his behavior. All of them deserve jail time.

Every last one of them! The man that had his arm torn off seemed the most sane. But that is only in comparison to the rest of them.

And I agree - the drugs and sex manipulation alone could have been its own show.

I think Netflix benefitted with all the views of the show. And that's it.