The Most-Watched Show in America Is a Moral Failure
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