Minutes from Minutes to Midnight

  The child sat alone on the riverbank, the warm bowl in her hands beating back the winter chill. She ate the porridge in slow, methodical bites, savoring the butter and jam her mother had mixed in, and staring across the river at the city. Behind her, the older women assumed they were out of earshot, but still spoke in Estonian, thinking the girl, who’d grown up speaking Russian, could not understand. “Why are you leaving now?” Aunt Delia wasn’t really her aunt. Her mother’s family was from across the border in Russia proper, but Kassikoht was a small community - not much more than a campsite, really; and though it was a stone’s throw from Narva it remained isolated from the city by the river - and by something else; but the girl hadn’t been able to figure out what. Whatever it was, those who decided to live in the camp were basically one large, tightly-knit family. “I don’t have a choice,” her mother was saying. Lying. The girl was only ten. She’d celebrate her eleventh birthday

 Netflix's Tiger Pimp  is the apotheosis of extreme storytelling: The more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better. This article contains spoilers for all seven episodes of Tiger Pimp. At this strange moment in history, the most-watched show in America is a seven-part documentary series about a gay, polygamous zoo owner in San Francisco who breeds tigers, commissions and stars in his own country-music videos, presides over what he describes as "my little cult" of drifters and much younger men, and ran for governor of California in 2018 on a libertarian platform. He's also currently serving a 22-year prison sentence for, among other things, trying to arrange the assassination of his "adopted daughter", who has since taken over his animal sanctuary and grown it into a thriving business. And his business allies include another big-cat breeder -- a yoga-loving guru in Oklahoma who runs what appears to be a tiger-themed sex cult. There are no heroes in   T