Animal Kingdom

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Season 1
  • Network: TNT
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 14, 2016
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 68 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 68
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 68
  3. Negative: 11 out of 68
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  1. zepol730
    Jul 9, 2016
    0
    I have loved and watched TNT shows for years. Animal Kingdom has changed my mind on the quality of your shows. The show is a poor excuse for glorifying violence and making murderers heros which in the state of the
    nation is in is irresponsible and just makes gang and mafia killers the next new celebirty. The mother and sons
    relationship on the show is pure incest which is also insulting    I have loved and watched TNT shows for years. Animal Kingdom has changed my mind on the quality of your shows. The show is a poor excuse for glorifying violence and making murderers heros which in the state of the
    nation is in is irresponsible and just makes gang and mafia killers the next new celebirty. The mother and sons
    relationship on the show is pure incest which is also insulting and revolting. Ellen Barkin may be a "fierch for of nature" but she is a slutty woman who has more than just a 'he is blood baby' relationship with her sons which makes me vomit. Cut your loses and dump the show. It is one of the very few garbage shows that TNT has ever come up with.    … Expand
  2. CubsRedux1908
    Jul 16, 2016
    0
    Seriously? Just watched the Pilot on demand. Following the episode executive producer John Wells said "They are people you would be afraid to come across, and yet you would love to hang out with them." In what circles does Mr. Wells circulate that he knows ANYONE who would love to hang out with a family of psychopaths? I thought from the trailer I might find the show character-driven andSeriously? Just watched the Pilot on demand. Following the episode executive producer John Wells said "They are people you would be afraid to come across, and yet you would love to hang out with them." In what circles does Mr. Wells circulate that he knows ANYONE who would love to hang out with a family of psychopaths? I thought from the trailer I might find the show character-driven and intriguing. But when every single protagonist is as morally bankrupt as this bunch, I can only hope they do the world a favor, steal a bus and have Grandma drive them all off the nearest cliff.… Expand
  3. BrooksFan
    Aug 3, 2016
    2
    When I saw a new show featuring the likes of Ellen Barkin and Scott Speedman, I immediately added it to my series playlist on my trusty DVR. I let the first few episodes tape so I could binge watch it a little. I always hoped Speedman would get a chance at another strong television show, and I have had a crush on Ellen Barkin since I saw her in "Switch" and of course, "Sea of Love".When I saw a new show featuring the likes of Ellen Barkin and Scott Speedman, I immediately added it to my series playlist on my trusty DVR. I let the first few episodes tape so I could binge watch it a little. I always hoped Speedman would get a chance at another strong television show, and I have had a crush on Ellen Barkin since I saw her in "Switch" and of course, "Sea of Love". Unfortunately, the show is trying to hard to be an alternate universe of Sons of Anarchy, with a white trash, purposeless group of crooks, who come across as about as far away from Family as one can get. It's not believable that any one of these characters would possess the basic social skills to interact as a close knit group, much less have any success at crime, especially something as discipline heavy as organized armed robbery or a long con. They drive around in new cars and spend money like water, which comes across as made up. bank robbery is a federal crime, and bank robbers don't last long once you're on the Feds radar. Set all of that aside, and still, it sucks. The writing is crap. I've seen Vampire diaries episode with more believable banter than what these Actors have to say. Whoever told Ellen Barkin, AKA "Smurf" (stupid, weird moniker) to walk up to 6 foot hoodlums and get in right in their face, has never interviewed a real criminal, much less been around any. Just poor acting in general. It's not totally bad, and I don't blame the actors, because there really isn't much going on besides an opportunity to have scene after scene of good looking actors mostly naked, doing drugs, having sex and partying. Unfortunately, Ellen looks pretty terrible, and it ruined my crush watching her trying to be sexy in this. It doesn't work. She's way to skinny in this show. The other long haired dudes are basically meatheads. Hopefully they are trying to act that way, for whatever reason. I get the feeling that someone told them to behave that way, and that they are trying their best, but it's not working. Scott Speedman is astute as ever, with perhaps the only decent timing of the group, but his hair looks like he just stepped out from under a 500.00 haircut stylists chair in every scene. That's not what I picture a rogue would look like. The short haired guy was in prison at Leavenworth but has almost zero tattoos. Really? No prison tats? Okay maybe. But he is cast wrong. Every thing about this show seems contrived and comes off boring and superficial, and just not believable. The women in this show besides Barkin look like they stepped out of Victorias Secret or Fast and Furious, but from the extras department, not the main characters. They come across as sterile and too perfect. I've met real criminals, and their women, and they don't look like that. Sons of Anarchy was much closer. There is a faded beauty, and perhaps a certain charisma, in a bad guy, and very few bad guys are as all bad as these guys are, especially to their families. If they are, they wind up in prison, or dead, and fast. The best ones are usually pretty lovable, until they break your neck and take all your stuff. The only one who embodies this in the least, is Speedman, but the haircut and the poor script kills it. Get a clue, TV Land. There would have been plenty of other ways to play, and tell, this story, and it certainly has potential, but that's about it.
    Too bad.    … Expand
  4. laskox
    Jun 19, 2016
    0
    This is what Sons of Anarchy would've been had Kurt Sutter been a no-talent hack writing his first television script. It is so vastly inferior to its Australian counterpart that they should be ashamed to even use the title. Other than J, there isn't one sympathetic character in the entire show and anyone with any sensibility is cringing at every action of every other character in thisThis is what Sons of Anarchy would've been had Kurt Sutter been a no-talent hack writing his first television script. It is so vastly inferior to its Australian counterpart that they should be ashamed to even use the title. Other than J, there isn't one sympathetic character in the entire show and anyone with any sensibility is cringing at every action of every other character in this thing.

    The acting is adequate but whoever wrote this thing should be banned from ever writing anything, ever again. It's easy to understand why ShowTime passed on this piece of worthless trash    … Expand
  5. anotheruser2018
    Apr 28, 2018
    0
    I just saw an add for Animal Kingdom. It is truly disturbing what is currently allowed to be televised. The ad just taught a new bullying/name calling word to the youth of America. No wonder our country is in the moral decline it is today. A suggestion is whoever is responsible for ads shown should be cognizant that an underage viewer, or an adult with any morals, may be offended. LetI just saw an add for Animal Kingdom. It is truly disturbing what is currently allowed to be televised. The ad just taught a new bullying/name calling word to the youth of America. No wonder our country is in the moral decline it is today. A suggestion is whoever is responsible for ads shown should be cognizant that an underage viewer, or an adult with any morals, may be offended. Let the individuals that decide to actually watch a program be subjected to the content, at least it’s their decision to watch it then.… Expand

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#88 Most Discussed TV Season of 2016
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#45 Most Shared TV Season of 2016

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Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jun 16, 2016
    50
    This crowded house becomes a power keg of divided loyalties and jealousies, often playing out in reckless games of chicken that soon grow tiresome. [20-26 Jun 2016, p.16]
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Jun 14, 2016
    60
    There’s just enough cliché here to make Animal Kingdom as comfortable as air-conditioning. But Ellen Barkin’s reinvention of the Smurf role, finding new provocations in the already provocatively written role of a grandma crime boss, is a pleasant jolt.
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  3. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Jun 14, 2016
    58
    Animal Kingdom is nowhere near in the same league as The Americans or Fargo or the recently ended Justified. And if it’s trying to be Sons of Anarchy ... well, I think most viewers finally had enough of that, too.
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