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Animal Kingdom (2016) - Season 1
This genre of family crime is based on Oceanside, Calif surf community. After the loss of his mother, 17 year old boy now has to live with his criminal family, overseen by matriarch Smurf.
15 December 1965, Kanpur, India
12 December 1986, Huntington Beach, California, USA
9 February 1996, Moorpark, California, USA
3 March 1959, Lansing, Michigan, USA
5 February 1973, Sterling, Virginia, USA
June 14, 2016
Animal Kingdom bites hard and doesn't let up.
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
As gritty, dysfunctional family, crime-fueled dramas go, Animal Kingdom roars with dark promise.
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
There's not a second of dead space in Wells' tautly directed opener, and barely a second of exposition either.
June 14, 2016
Drugs, sex, stylized violence in solid family crime drama.
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.
June 10, 2016
TNT's latest failure to prove it's more than just a storing house for neatly packaged procedurals.
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
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.