Tigers are just the McGuffin. The real show is the out-of-this-world strangeness of the people.
Cult leaders calling out rivals for being cult leaders. The cult members who have money for elaborate tattoos and piercings but seemingly not for toothbrushes. Or casually prefer to amputate an injured hand rather than go through the surgery to repair it.
Watching "Tiger King" I kept thinking of an old Eddie Murphy standup routine. It went something like, "I went to visit a prison to show solidarity with the brothers, and I learned an important lesson... Thank God we got prisons!"
If I had made up this story and written it into a novel, it would be dismissed as "too unrealistic".
So true. Found it interesting and disturbing at the same time.