Spoiler Warning: This article contains major plot details about the Season 4 finale of Animal Kingdom.
The creative team of TNT’s Animal Kingdom was ready to shuffle the deck in a big way as the show’s fourth season drew to a close and so, in last week’s penultimate episode, the Cody family matriarch, Janine ‘Smurf’ Cody (portrayed by series mainstay Ellen Barkin), was gunned down in shocking fashion.
In tonight’s just-aired finale, that discarded queen’s spot in the Animal Kingdom was filled by a wild-card presence that (if he sticks around) would absolutely shake up the dynamics and destiny of the Cody family odyssey. That wild card is a familiar face from Season 3: Billy Cody, portrayed with badass aplomb by former Rescue Me star Denis Leary, who is pretty much a walking joker card if you think about it.
For Deran Cody (Jake Weary), the...
The creative team of TNT’s Animal Kingdom was ready to shuffle the deck in a big way as the show’s fourth season drew to a close and so, in last week’s penultimate episode, the Cody family matriarch, Janine ‘Smurf’ Cody (portrayed by series mainstay Ellen Barkin), was gunned down in shocking fashion.
In tonight’s just-aired finale, that discarded queen’s spot in the Animal Kingdom was filled by a wild-card presence that (if he sticks around) would absolutely shake up the dynamics and destiny of the Cody family odyssey. That wild card is a familiar face from Season 3: Billy Cody, portrayed with badass aplomb by former Rescue Me star Denis Leary, who is pretty much a walking joker card if you think about it.
For Deran Cody (Jake Weary), the...
- 8/21/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
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