(FAIR WARNING: Spoilers ahead)
The Fog of War. Hoop Dreams. The Thin Blue Line.
At their very best, documentaries can teach us how to see the world through a new prism. They challenge our commonly held assumptions. They find bravery or beauty in the mundane and even the grotesque.
This is the part where I’m supposed to tell you that kind of enlightenment awaits viewers of Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Madness and Mayhem. It does not. Filmmaker Eric Goode puts forth a game effort at trying to string together the saga of Joe Exotic and his antagonists into some kind of coherent arc.