NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock has revealed the official Joe vs Carole trailer, which previews the series starring John Cameron Mitchell as Joe Exotic and Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin.
Joe vs Carole is a limited series consisting of eight 60-minute episodes that will premiere on Peacock on Thursday, March 3, 2022. You can watch the Joe vs Carole trailer on YouTube.
Based on the Wondery podcast Joe Exotic, hosted and reported by Robert Moor, the series 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.
From UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, Etan Frankel writes and executive produces the series under his overall deal with the studio. McKinnon also executive produces along with Wondery’s Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, and Aaron Hart.
Frankel is the showrunner of the series, which was directed by executive producer Justin Tippin (episodes 1-4 and 8) and Natalie Bailey (episodes 5-7).
The cast also includes Kyle MacLachlan, Brian Van Holt, Sam Keeley, Nat Wolf, Marlo Kelly, William Fichtner, Dean Winters, and David Wenham.
“Joe vs Carole is a wild ride. 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,” said Etan Frankel.
He added: “I hope that when people watch Joe vs Carole, just maybe they’ll see these people that they thought they knew in a brand-new way. We knew it would take two extraordinary actors to portray these larger-than-life people as the complex, three-dimensional individuals that they are.”
“John Cameron Mitchell is one of the most gifted and thoughtful actors I’ve ever worked with. He cares so deeply about the work, and his performance is breathtaking.
“And Kate McKinnon is simply remarkable. She is able to make us double over with laughter one moment and then break our hearts the next. It was an absolute thrill to watch these two exceptional actors morph into these roles.”
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Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to cover the latest streaming, movie, TV, and game news.