Joe Vs Carole review: Interesting to watch but more fluffy kitty than big cat

Remember those early days of the pandemic where, in between Lady Macbeth style hand washing and hands/face/spacing our way through our days, everyone's lives became narrower and oddly obsessed with the same handful of topics?

Loo roll supplies (getting them or judging other people for stockpiling them). Banana bread. Joe Wicks. Who the best of the Government's science advisors was (Jonathan Van-Tam, I will brook no argument)?

Slap bang in the middle of all these shared isolation experiences was a strange Netflix docuseries turned pantomime where a be-mulleted man and a strange woman prone to meowing in a disturbing fashion on social media spent a lot of time talking about big cats. Would Netflix's Tiger King been such a moment of zeitgeist if pretty much everyone in the world hadn't been shut in with their family and fast running out of things to watch?

The fact that season two, released 18 months later (once we could all leave our houses again if we wanted to) pretty much sank without trace would suggest not. So with that as background, Peacock TV launching an eight episode TV drama telling the story of Joe Vs Carole seems pretty late to the party.

Just in case you were one of the few people who actually kept up with learning a new language on DuoLingo during lockdown rather than binge-watching and therefore aren't familiar with the subject matter, Joe Vs Carole tells the story of big cats activist Carole Baskin who devotes her life to advocating for animals being mistreated in unregulated zoos and animal parks.

Her work introduces her Joe 'Exotic' Schreibvogel whose roadshow zoo and big cat breeding practices horrify her. She makes it her mission to close his business down while he, in turn, wants to ruin her and,