Really enjoying - in to the plot and characters easily
I rather watch animal planet where I can see the rhinos taking a hot dump than this pretentious pile of shit.
Not my normal type of show, tried numerous like it such as SOA but couldn’t get in to them. But, this had me hooked from the start.
I’m late to the party to watch it, and surprised I’ve no one seems to know about it. A hidden gem I’m my opinion.
Amazing show, just needs more seasons
This show is just "okay". -- And while I know it's inspired by the Australian crime-drama, Animal Kingdom (2010), I can't help but see how it parallels with Sons of Anarchy, a show that began in 2008 and ended in 2014. AK's opening credits even features a montage of tattooed bodies -- similar to SOA opening titles.
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Animal Kingdom tries desperately to be a gritty, macho, controversial crime drama, but falls just short of an unsophisticated, less inspired kin to Sons of Anarchy. SOA is one of my favorite shows, ever. As a woman of color, who leans slightly toward the title of feminist, this may come as a shock to some. But, unlike Animal Kingdom-- which currently lacks strong, smart, and crafty female characters -- SOA had a beautifully woven architecture of complex relationships, poeticism, and coming of age stories that were grounded in actual heartbreaking character development. In other words, we somehow came to care about the baby mommas, and the stomach-churning addicts. So far, AK as done little to make me want to care about the protagonist's (Josh/ "J") journey within this abysmal family. With knockoff Gemma Teller (Smurf) manipulating what's left of his shattered youth, it's hard to see how "J" could become a character worth adoring. The show wants to pick-up where SONS left off. It wants you to take it seriously, it also wants you to know that it can provocative, bloody, messy and sometimes a little violent. What it doesn't want is to be interesting, or remarkable at all -- even the cinematography is, meh. Animal Kingdom just wants to be "okay", a good summer fling on a cool Tuesday night. While I'm watching these grown men bully a young, teenage boy, I'm wondering, when will they grow up? Will it take all of season 1? Season 2? Or will we forever have to watch these "man-babies" be coddled by their mother (you know, the wanna-be Gemma Teller)? I'll admit that I have not seen the source material, but it seems that watching it may be a more satisfying expereince than the series. Nevertheless, I'm hoping the show grows up a bit overtime and can separate itself from those that have done this genre better.
It's getting better with each episode starting to get into it well worth a visit
A very promising TV show.
love this show. i dont mind the flash backs it definitely helps you to understand their back stories. hoping they'll dive A little into Jay and Julia's back story between Julia leaving smurf and when she passes away but with only a couple episodes left i doubt there will be time. Amazed by how well the actor playing young Andrew (pope) mirrors the actor that plays him as an adult. the body language and facial expressions are spot on. he makes his portrayal as the younger version of Pope totally believable. you don't see that often. :thumbsup:
It was very good from the first, now with more history unfolding its must be amongst Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
weirdly good for an absolutely garbage show.
weirdly good for an absolutely garbage show.
weirdly good for an absolutely garbage show
weirdly good for an absolutely garbage show
The last episode of the last season sucked. The worst of them all gets to survive, and if you watch the last episode you know J was the worst. Right up there with Jeanine. Pope was never Ruby in the head, but both Daren and Craig never wanted anything but to escape the whole thing. Hell, it doesn't even make sense they took off the vests before robbing the store.
The first 5 seasons were a perfect 10. Season 6 maybe an 8. But the last episode was absolute shit. Not just the best thing, but the fact they had these backup escape plans through Jeanine from the very first season.
It felt like they were trying to force the ending to be poetic somehow, but then J would've got his. He even lied about Daren and Craig killing people, let alone him killing that girl to cover his tracks. Poetic would've been Daren knowing J was up to something, and having a half ass back up plan. Sure Pope could've still died. The whole thing didn't even make sense, because the house alone was worth more than $5M. Just dumb ending. Feel like shows like this really need to stop tying every loose end. Just leave it hang. The two got away, Pope kills J, after saying it was all his fault, and then Pope dies. That would've been poetic justice. End of story.
Excellent show, it's a shame it ended but better to go out on a high.
A satisfying ending.
I just finished S6. A great show, but When I stop to think about it, I would not recommend it: The characters we are supposed to care for are all absolute scumbags, criminals who make the worst decisions, and ruin lives around them. Sure they were raised by an Evil mother, but still, everybody is so bad and evil that watching this makes me feel dirty. In the end, I kinda wanted them to get caught or die. There can be something cool about those mafia/gangster movies and shows, but here I could no longer find reasons to care for those guys
I've just started this show, mostly because Trakt has it rated so highly, but I'm having trouble really liking anyone in it enough to care what happens to them.
I'm continuing to watch it (seen 5 so far), as some commenters have mentioned that it takes a handful of episodes to get hooked on the show, but I could currently never watch another episode and be fine. If not for the fact that there is very little interesting television to watch I would never have started this one.
The series ended when smurf died, the last season is just very calm compared to previous ones
Still one of the best shows on,could easily do another three or four seasons.
Season 5: Didn't really add anything new. the flashbacks were nice, but prolly did it too much. We all knew pope was a head case! easy to fast forward the pope line in the first half and also the drug addiction cliche in the second half. hopefully the final season will be wild and crazy and somebody gets killed! Watch last 1 episode.
I really hate these flash backs. They've just ruined the show for me. Not sure I'll even finish watching season 5. I skipped through them in season 4. Didn't know they were going to be persistent.
Fantastic show and holds up the high standards of the Australian movie. No more Smurf but I say no more problems
Really good show. Ellen Barkin is excellent. Every few episodes there's a caper that usually entails some kind of Point-Break-esque stunt or stunts.
Think Sons of Anarchy with the bikers replaced by a family of young surfers. My problem is that unlike in SOA, the main charachters are just bad guys with very few redeeming qualities. They are not very likable and very hard to root for. In SOA at least, the gang was supposedly keeping the streets clean, and also they were fighting other gangs. Here? they are just the worst and you end up rooting for the cops, which I don't think is intended.
Really like that serie, everyone have something to hide, threatening each other for cash. Well, I like this kind of serie, every season we have a surprise. Can't wait season 4 !
getting worse every episode, pretty bad show.
I liked it a lot!,especially after season 1 ,I will give it 4 and a half stars! LOL
what can i say about this 1? i try to sum it up in my view >i kinda want it to be better! it should be! although it simply falls on its arse in trying to be a gritty drama that hasnt had enough time to develop.Most times the characters arent believable or even original enough to aid to the shows grit which is imo is a little sprinkling of fairy dust at best. Its a shame though this could had been a good gritty show that one could be geeing or cheering at Josh but instead delivers a flat unlikeable tv show that ends up in i missed it pile!
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The show has always been superb from the beginning and the end of 6×13 was just a masterpiece