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Animal Kingdom is a family crime drama set in a gritty surf community of Oceanside, Calif. The show is about a 17-year-old boy, who, after the death of his mother, moves in with the Codys, a criminal family clan governed by matriarch Smurf.
27 May 1983, Miami, Florida, USA
16 May 1981, Wales, UK
23 May 1985, Iwakuni, Japan
9 February 1983, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
6 June 1958, Marietta, Georgia, USA
10 May 1961, Springfield, Illinois, USA
3 May 1948, Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA
15 December 1965, Kanpur, India
29 December 1953, Albany, New York, USA
17 October 1977, Bronx, New York, USA
18 October 1978, Bronx, New York, USA
August 10, 2016
Despite featuring a cast of mostly unknowns and being developed from foreign-produced source material, the show managed to suck viewers in... with slick production values, fine performances, taut direction and a tension-filled narrative throughline.June 10, 2016
TNT's latest failure to prove it's more than just a storing house for neatly packaged procedurals.June 14, 2016
Adapted from the arresting 2010 Australian thriller, the series contains glimpses of the gritty, compelling series it could be, but judged on its first three episodes, this tale of a dysfunctional Southern California crime family is more bark than bite.June 13, 2016
This series adaptation of the 2010 movie Animal Kingdom is remarkably confident from the start. The story unfolds naturally, the hand-held camerawork is quite effective, and the acting is aces.June 14, 2016
As gritty, dysfunctional family, crime-fueled dramas go, Animal Kingdom roars with dark promise.June 14, 2016
Marinated in its seedy, sweltering setting and fueled by its hyper-masculine antiheroes' reckless behaviors, Animal Kingdom is a welcome adrenaline rush in the typically underwhelming summer season.June 14, 2016
Drugs, sex, stylized violence in solid family crime drama.June 14, 2016
Animal Kingdom bites hard and doesn't let up.June 10, 2016
There's not a second of dead space in Wells' tautly directed opener, and barely a second of exposition either.June 14, 2016
The overall pace starts to get stalled in neutral or first gear at best. And some of the storytelling can be disjointed.