If most crime dramas aim for Shakespeare, “Animal Kingdom” sticks to the manual — blunt, procedural, and built for survival. Methodical, unpretentious, and oddly instructive, the show sidelines the mythic burdens of conscience and tragedy in favor of sheer procedural muscle. It isn’t about guilt. It’s about grit.
POPNOTES | OPINION: Now on Netflix, ‘Animal Kingdom’ the most pragmatic crime show of the prestige-TV era, offers not myth or meaning — but method
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