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The Good Whale

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After the movie “Free Willy” became a hit, word got out that the star of the film, a killer whale named Keiko, was sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. Fans were outraged and pleaded for his release. “The Good Whale” tells the story of the wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean — while the world watched. An epic tale that starts in Mexico and ends in Norway, the six-episode series follows Keiko as he’s transported from country to country, each time landing in the hands of well-intentioned people who believe they know what’s best for him – people who still disagree, decades later, about whether they did the right thing.

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  • His name was Keiko and everyone agreed he was a good whale.

  • Keiko was one of a kind.

  • Keiko had like this personality completely different from any other orca.

  • I mean, everybody that worked with him called him the one in a million whale.

  • Because no matter how far my career stretches and how long I work with marine mammals, there will never be another whale like that.

  • Keiko was good at performing, beloved by the crowds at the Mexican amusement park where he lived for more than a decade, most of his life since he was captured as a calf.

  • He was good with his trainers and with the kids who came to visit.

  • I would have taken my one year old daughter and put him on his back without a care or concern in the world.

  • He was that gentle.

  • And Keiko was good.

  • When he was cast in the movie Free Willy, he played the part of Willie, of course, a captive killer whale who's befriended by a 12 year old boy and then set free.

  • Very good.

  • Afterwards, when the world decided Keiko himself should be set free, that he should learn how to be a wild whale, how to hold his breath and hunt for his own food and live in the ocean.

  • Keiko, like always, was eager to please his humans.

  • So everyone agreed he was good.

  • But there were some things no one seemed to agree on.

  • Like, can good whales be wild whales?

  • It felt like bringing your pet dog out to the forest and then running away and the dog being hungry and scared and wanted to go home.

  • I was furious because I could see, see what we had done to him.

  • We, we played God at that point.