TMC
08-29-2022, 10:26 PM
https://www.looper.com/985782/animal-kingdom-fans-are-still-processing-their-series-finale-feelings/
BY CHARLES SWITZER/AUG. 29, 2022 7:07 PM EDT
Warning: Spoilers for the series finale of "Animal Kingdom" follow.
The series finale of TNT's "Animal Kingdom" aired on August 28 and, true to form, the episode contained its fair share of shocking moments. Season 6 was expected to bring the drama and certainly delivered on that, as the main characters' fates reached some unexpected conclusions. As in all the best TV crime dramas, the Cody family's misdeeds as they struggled to hold onto their illegal enterprise against both law enforcement and rivals unfolded with plotlines from earlier seasons coming back to haunt the criminals. Ever since the death of matriarch Smurf (Ellen Barkin) in Season 4, the fractured Codys have traveled a shaky path where the dominoes fell one by one.
"Animal Kingdom" was a show that took an unflinching look at characters who chose to live their lives defined by crime. So one thing that Season 6, Episode 13, titled "Fubar," achieved was to show how transgressions that harm others for financial gain never truly pay in the grand scheme of things. Even though we may have sensed that this is where things were headed with the Codys, fans are still processing that gut punch of a final episode.
BY CHARLES SWITZER/AUG. 29, 2022 7:07 PM EDT
Warning: Spoilers for the series finale of "Animal Kingdom" follow.
The series finale of TNT's "Animal Kingdom" aired on August 28 and, true to form, the episode contained its fair share of shocking moments. Season 6 was expected to bring the drama and certainly delivered on that, as the main characters' fates reached some unexpected conclusions. As in all the best TV crime dramas, the Cody family's misdeeds as they struggled to hold onto their illegal enterprise against both law enforcement and rivals unfolded with plotlines from earlier seasons coming back to haunt the criminals. Ever since the death of matriarch Smurf (Ellen Barkin) in Season 4, the fractured Codys have traveled a shaky path where the dominoes fell one by one.
"Animal Kingdom" was a show that took an unflinching look at characters who chose to live their lives defined by crime. So one thing that Season 6, Episode 13, titled "Fubar," achieved was to show how transgressions that harm others for financial gain never truly pay in the grand scheme of things. Even though we may have sensed that this is where things were headed with the Codys, fans are still processing that gut punch of a final episode.