'Tiger King 2' is now available to watch on Netflix

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By Carina Murphy

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Joe Exotic and the gang are back in the second series of Tiger King, which dropped at midnight on Netflix.

Tiger King season 1 was one of the best things to come out of lockdown last year. The stranger-than-fiction true-crime docu-series about big cat owners trying to take each other out had 64 million households glued to their screens last year, Variety reports.

So it's no surprise that filmmakers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin have returned to the scene of the crime(s) for a second series.

Tiger King 1 focused on Joe Exotic (real name Joseph Allen Schreibvogel), the gun-toting owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, and his colleagues, husbands, and enemies.

While the season touched on the ethics of big cat ownership, it was the characters and cartoonish feuds between park owners that kept us clicking 'next episode'.

The Emmy-nominate saga culminated in Exotic being jailed for 22-years over allegations he hired a hit on rival zoo owner Carole Baskin, as well as nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act among other charges.

While Exotic is still appealing his sentence, the new season will focus less on him than on the other people who have become rich and famous thanks to the show.

We'll see more of Joe's husband Dillon Passage, the unnervingly serene Baskin, and the villainous Jeff Lowe (who took over Exotics's zoo).

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There's also a special appearance in the form of Exotic's estranged older brother, Yarri Schreibvogel, who's set to give us more details about their abusive upbringing, as well as why the two fell out.

After being renamed 'Tiger King Park' in 2020, Exotic's animal park - the source of so much of the original series' drama - was permanently closed in August last year, Digital Spy reports.

It may be missing Exotic, but the five-episode return of the docu-series is still getting a lot of love on social media from fans who can't wait to binge it.

"If you need me later on today I'll be binge-watching Tiger King 2," Tweeted one person.

"Cannot wait for this!" added another.

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