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TV Review: Animal Kingdom Season 1 Finale “What Have You Done”

“What Have You Done” is an odd finale episode, but I rather enjoyed it for the way it wrapped up its main conflicts, especially J’s part of the story. J, who started the season off as timid, shy, and lost…

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TV Review: Animal Kingdom (1×9) “Judas Kiss”

Animal Kingdom has had its fair number of decent episodes this first season, but none have felt so economically controlled as episode nine, “Judas Kiss.” Every scene had the right amount of momentum to move us seamlessly into the next scene,…

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TV Review: ‘Animal Kingdom’ (1×8) “Man In”

It’s all about fathers on Animal Kingdom’s eighth episode “Man In,” as we sort of knew going in from last week’s preview of J asking if Baz is his dad. We didn’t get an answer, for which I’m grateful. Like I said,…

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TV Review: ‘Animal Kingdom’ (1×7) “Goddamn Animals”

There are some aspects of this episode I like, and some I don’t. What I like — Baz continues his manipulation of Paul. While Baz (as a character) I’m not overly fond of, watching him take control of this job…

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TV Review: Animal Kingdom (1×6) “Child Care”

Despite my reservations about the Craig/Renn story, it oddly had a nice resolution to it, one that wasn’t cased in melodrama and drawn out; until Renn found out the truth in some contrived way that ended up being convenient for…

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TV Review: ‘Animal Kingdom’ (1×5) “Flesh is Weak”

The first two episodes of Animal Kingdom seemed to set up a major police investigation into the death of a police officer during one of the Codys’ jobs, and subsequent episodes would be filled with the Codys constantly watching their…

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TV Review: ‘Animal Kingdom’ (1×4) “Dead to Me”

Two characters have largely been a mystery during the first three episodes of Animal Kingdom, but in the fourth episode, “Dead to Me,” Pope and J finally feel like real, concrete characters that I can’t wait to psychoanalyze. Disclaimer —…