Sometimes nothing is better than beating a dead horse. The Joe Vs. Carole teaser was released by Peacock and hints at a battle between Carole Baskin (Kate McKinnon) and Joe Exotic (John Cameron Mitchell).
It’s hard to believe but it has been almost two years since Tiger King took the internet by storm. The series followed two kooky southern big cat owners, Joe Exotic and Baskin, who eventually went to some sort of mini-war that ended with Joe going to prison where he still currently is. The Netflix series documented these events and, at the height of the pandemic, everyone became intrigued with where this story was going.
Joe Vs. Carole is a scripted version of this story and is based on the “Joe Exotic” Wondery podcast. The teaser features Mckinnon transformed as Carole Baskin going toe-to-toe with Mitchell’s Joe Exotic. In addition to Mitchell as Joe and McKinnon as Baskin, the Peacock series will also feature Kyle MacLachlan as Howard Baskin, Dean Winters as Jeff Lowe, William Fichtner as Rick Kirkham, and Nat Wolff as Travis Moldonado.
In a statement provided by Peacock, executive producer Etan Frankel described his excitement towards casting these two leads to portray these larger-than-life personas.
The series itself appears to be comedic but is framed in the teaser as a gritty crime drama. Joe Vs. Carole will start streaming on Peacock on March 3.
