John Cameron Mitchell (L) as Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel and Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin. (Photos by Mark Taylor/Peacock)
Peacock has released the full trailer to its upcoming limited series “Joe vs Carole,” a fictionalized take on the Joe Exotic/Carole Baskin feud that first took the country by storm in 2020 with Netflix’s docu-series “Tiger King.”
Starring John Cameron Mitchell (“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) and Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”) as the titular characters, “Joe vs Carole” is based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” hosted and reported by Robert Moor, and will center on Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit. She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.
“‘Joe vs Carole’ is a wild ride,” said Etan Frankel, series writer and showrunner, in a statement. “It’s a fun and rich journey into the story of people who live very extreme lives. When I took on this project a year and a half ago, I found Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin to be utterly fascinating, and this crazy tale about two big cat lovers quickly became an important story for me to tell.”
“Joe vs Carole” will premiere March 3 exclusively on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, and also stars Kyle MacLachlan, Brian Van Holt, Sam Keeley, Nat Wolf, Marlo Kelly, William Fichtner, Dean Winters and David Wenham. McKinnon and Frankel also executive produce the series along with Alex Katsnelson and Wondery’s Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, and Aaron Hart.
Watch the trailer below.
