Joe Exotic Versus Michael Jordan – – Who Will Be Crowned Emmy King?

Joe Exotic Versus Michael Jordan – – Who Will Be Crowned Emmy King?

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Remember back in the early days of the pandemic? 



Beyond re-educating ourselves on how to cook and eat meals at home, and other unfamiliar tasks like spending epic, quality time together as families, Covid-19 also seemed to mandate a re-discovery and mega-prioritization of TV entertainment.



Specifically, back in the early spring, television's array of high-quality, new documentaries suddenly available provided much-needed escape in the time of sheltering-in-place.



Tiger King, featuring now imprisoned "Joe Exotic“ (aka Joseph Allen Schreibvogel), premiered on NETFLIX



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just as Covid-19 began to roar through the U.S. Its tales of the colorful folks who are drawn to big cats seemed to provide the perfect distraction from the terror and anxiety we were all experiencing in real time, in the face of the world's first pandemic in 100 years.



The documentary series not only shattered records for NETFLIX, but it also scored the most nominations for any documentary series at this year's Emmy nominations ceremony. 





Given its notoriety and multiple Emmy nominations, normally Tiger King would be considered the Emmy favorite.



But 2020 has been far from normal.



Soon after