Tiger King
(Picture: Netflix)It is March 2020. Boris Johnson has announced a three week national lockdown to deal with a little thing called coronavirus and you and your family or housemates are hunkering down at home waiting for the whole thing to blow over.
Your sourdough is in the oven, you’ve just downloaded TikTok, and a new Netflix documentary about the dramas taking place in one American zoo is keeping you entertained.
Good times, eh? Not really. But now you can relive that lovely time when we could only leave the house for one hour a day because Netflix have announced that a new series of the documentary - Tiger King - is in production and will be released by the end of this year.
But reacting to the news, many people didn’t want to be reminded of lockdown:
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Tiger King is, in every way, a chapter of our lives we just don’t need again. https://t.co/VuATbgf8s2
— BD (@BrandonDavisBD) September 23, 2021
I think I say this for everyone that worked in digital media around the time when Tiger King s1 dropped just as we were being locked down - I never want to see a single second of this programme again, fucking hell https://t.co/Iq9mt5RLhl
— george (@georgegriffiths) September 23, 2021
Tiger King belongs in the trash pile of 2020. Instead of digging through the rubbish, let’s leave it there, send it off to the dump, and move on. pic.twitter.com/rvsyVaa6BE
— OpheliaMagicka🌍🌬️🔥🌊💫🧙♀️ (@EarthFae306) September 23, 2021
So I feel like Tiger King was a very specific period in our lives where we collectively needed to check out of reality as we witnessed the world's health collapsing but maybe we don't need that anymore? https://t.co/6iE6k66JhC
— Pris Blossom (@PrisBlossom) September 23, 2021
IS THIS PANDEMIC REALLY GONNA BEGIN AND END WITH FUCKING TIGER KING!? https://t.co/zSxTzXLPSq
— Ocean Now Stoned (@D_A_Woodburn) September 23, 2021
Tiger King should be locked in a vault with other lockdown memories and never spoken about again. I refuse to move backwards https://t.co/ZBAdYBXLPm
— jack rem x (@jackremmington) September 23, 2021
Others, however, were excited:
tiger king was the best thing to come out of 2020 idc idc pic.twitter.com/QtV13bcvCR
— azhar (@SUCC3SSlON) September 23, 2021
I remember how Tiger King was something that brought us all together as one during the pandemic 🤣 https://t.co/f5sfjVbQGk
— ✨🌟✨KammieDee ✨🌟✨ (@KAMMEDEE) September 23, 2021
Tiger King was also one of the most popular things Netflix had
— Chris (@Christian_810) September 23, 2021
Why wouldn’t they capitalize on it?
Netflix is yet to announce an exact date for when the series will air nor has it dropped clues about what the series will cover though we are sure it will be full of drama if it is anything like the first.
As long as it doesn’t usher in a new pandemic, somehow, we guess we will tune in.
