Like millions of others scratching for something to entertain themselves during the lockdown, my family and I have watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness. For the few of you who don’t know the show, which became a national craze, it’s about a man improbably named Joe Exotic, who is behind bars (and quarantined) in Florida for the attempted murder of Carole Baskin, an activist who worked to shut down his roadside zoo, with its hundreds of big cats.

It’s riveting, not least because the ratio of freak to regular Joe, of weird to normal, is so skewed toward the remarkable that it’d be implausible as fiction. The facts, however, support the evidence of your lying eyes, and you’re glued.