This one is still hard to come to terms with. Kirkham is a producer who just wanted to make a reality show about Joe Exotic. He didn't ask to become totally enwrapped in all the illegal behind-the-scenes madness, but that's exactly what happened. Unfortunately, all of Kirkham's hard work, which included incriminating evidence against Joe Exotic literally went up in flames when the studio housing his footage was mysteriously set on fire.
"I felt so sad for Rick. Through the first few episodes, he was kind of like the everyman, pointing out the unbelievable scenarios from the inside. I had a feeling the reality show had never been released (we would have heard about it by now if it had, right?), but I was happy for him when I thought that Netflix would have had to pay him a lot of money for his reality show footage. When the shed/studio was blown up, destroying all the footage in the process . . . I really felt that." — Angela Law, assistant editor
"They really didn't have to do Rick like that. It reminded me of when I was in school and lost a 15-page research paper after my laptop suddenly crashed and wiped out all of my files. Heartbreaking. From that point on, I used Google docs and nothing else. It still hurts me. Anyway, justice for Rick!" — Brea Cubit, celebrity and entertainment assistant editor