Full Trailer for Peacock's TIGER KING Series JOE VS CAROLE
Peacock has the first teaser trailer for its Tiger King-inspired limited series Joe vs. Carole, which tells the sensational, stranger-than-fiction story of America’s wildest feud. The show centers on big cat enthusiast Carole Baskin and exotic animal lover Joe "Exotic" Schreibvogel and how they make each other’s life a living hell.
The series is an adaptation of the 2020 Wondery podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King hosted and reported by Robert Moor. The series stars John Cameron Mitchell (Shrill, The Good Fight) as Joe Exotic and Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live Ghostbusters) as Carole Baskin. Both of them are perfect in the roles that they were cast in.
The limited series will center on “Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit. She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.”
Etan Frankel serves as writer, showrunner, and executive producer on the series and he said in a statement:
"JOE vs CAROLE is a wild ride. It's a fun and rich journey into the story of people who live very extreme lives. When I took on this project a year and a half ago, I found Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin to be utterly fascinating, and this crazy tale about two big cat lovers quickly became an important story for me to tell. I hope that when people watch JOE vs CAROLE just maybe they'll see these people that they thought they knew in a brand-new way. We knew it would take two extraordinary actors to portray these larger-than-life people as the complex, three-dimensional individuals that they are. John Cameron Mitchell is one of the most gifted and thoughtful actors I've ever worked with. He cares so deeply about the work, and his performance is breathtaking. And Kate McKinnon is simply remarkable. She is able to make us double over with laughter one moment and then break our hearts the next. It was an absolute thrill to watch these two exceptional actors morph into these roles."
The series also stars Kyle MacLachlan, Brian Van Holt, Sam Keeley, Nat Wolf, Marlo Kelly, William Fichtner, Dean Winters, and David Wenham. Joe Vs Carole will consist of eight episodes and it will premiere on Peacock on March 3rd. Check out the trailer, and let us know of you’ll be watching the series!