The COVID-19 pandemic was a weird time. Eric Goode made it weirder. As we all settled into our locked-down lives, making sourdough amid amassed stockpiles of toilet paper, Goode, a night-life impresario turned documentary filmmaker, hit us with Tiger King. Like the caged beasts in the series’ low-rent zoo, audiences were held captive in the bizarre, bleached-mullet, big-cat-mauling world of Joe Exotic. Goode’s next act, 2024’s Chimp Crazy, covered similar territory, exploring the twisted relationships between “chimp moms” and their primate charges. All along, as Goode drew viewers deeper and deeper into the exotic animal trade, few knew that he was closer to his subjects than he let on.
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