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3 TV Shows Similar to Animal Kingdom

3 TV Shows Similar to Animal Kingdom

Disney’s Animal Kingdom is known as a television series depicting drama. It was created based on an Australian film with a similar name. This show is about a teenager’s life. His name is Finn Cole. Her mom died and he was taken in by her mom’s estranged family members.

When he moved in with these new family members, he discovers that they are all criminals, and to top it off, the head of the whole criminal organization is his grandmother. She was known in the crime organization as Smurf, but her name was Janine ‘Smurf’ Cody in the film.

If you loved this show, then you might be interested in some similar family and crime drama shows on TV. Most of them have similar themes and cover similar stories of intense drama. In addition, you can watch on Hulu, Netflix, HBO, and other TV outlets.

Some of the TV shows similar to Animal Kingdom are:

  1. Wilfred – Television comedy drama, which ran for 3 years, from June 2011 to 2014
  2. Perry Mason – TV drama about Perry Mason, created in June 2020 and aired on HBO.
  3. Breaking Bad – AMC Crime drama TV series, ran from 2008 to 2013
  4. Workaholics – TV sitcom, ran from 2011 to 2017 on Comedy Central
  5. Big Little Lies – TV series on HBO, aired 2017 to 2019, based on a novel published in 2014
  6. Sharp Objects – Miniseries, TV Thriller, HBO premiere in 2018
  7. The Undoing – Mystery TV Thriller, based on a novel published in 2014
  8. I Know This Much Is True – Miniseries on TV, based on a novel published in 1998
  9. The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair – 2018 American TV series – Mystery Drama based on a novel published in 2014.
  10. Everything Sucks –
  11. Love Life –  2020 romantic comedy on TV
  12. On My Block – Netflix release, later TV show with 2019 premiere for second season – teen drama – comedy
  13. Looking For Alaska – Teen television miniseries based on a novel published in 2005
  14. Shameless – 2019 American TV Comedy on Showtime – January 2011 to April 2021
  15. Justified – Western TV crime drama – On FX Network – 2010
  16. The Affair – Television family drama
  17. Green Leaf – Mystery drama – television series
  18. Bloodline – Crime drama on TV
  19. The Path – TV series with mostly positive reviews
  20. Fargo – Black Television Comedy – 2014 – crime drama

Greenleaf

Greenleaf - Season 5

Not only do original series come to Netflix, but also series that are particularly interesting because of the themes they touch. On this occasion, the on-demand streaming platform has the rights to Greenleaf, a series from the OWN chain that has reached the screens of all its subscribers. Like Animal Kingdom, this is a family drama series where family is involved.

Despite the fact that the family members were operating a large Memphis church, they had corrupted personal and business lives that involved adultery, and greed; among other sinful acts. The show centers around the Bishop and his wife, namely Mae and James Greenleaf. They both run a church in Memphis that turned into a community center for the majority African-American faithful.

But nothing is what it seems. Behind the protagonist’s religious speeches are hidden various scandals full of adultery and greed among parishioners. On the outside and to the congregation and community, everything looks good, but the clan and family are filled with lots of secrets.

After being away for twenty years, Gigi who is the daughter of both the Bishop and his wife returns home. Her younger sister Faith had died mysteriously and is one of the reasons why Gigi came home.

  • Main Actors: Keith David, Lynn Whitfield, and cast member, Lamman Rucker
  • Director: Clement Virgo
  • Producer: Oprah Winfrey
  • Creator: Craig Wright
  • Awards: Tribeca Film Festival
  • How long it aired: Series premiered on television on March 2016

Some of the characters that have relevance in the plot, in addition to those mentioned, are Grace Greenleaf (Merle Dandridge) and her daughter Sophia (Desiree Ross), with whom she has custody problems, as well as two marriages full of secrets: Kerissa ( Kim Hawthorne) and her husband Jacob (Lamman Rucker), and Kevin (Tye White) and his wife Charity (Deborah Joy Winans).

Succession

Succession - Season 1

Succession started airing in 2018 and is known as a comedy television show with some drama. It depicts a family with the Roy surname. The family patriarch like Animal Kingdom runs a huge enterprise. However, because he is reaching a specific age and the kids think that he should pass on the reigns to one of the family members and go enjoy his retirement.

The kids have established their individual sense of greed and competing for being the one who has the reigns passed down from the father.

  • Main Actors: Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Braun, Alan Ruck, and Hiam Abbass; among others
  • Awards & Nominations: Chosen as one of the 10 Best TV Program of 2018, British Academy TV Award, Golden Globe award for best TV series, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Series in Drama, Award from the American Film Institute
  • How long it aired: June 3, 2018 to October 13, 2019

The characters in the show do not really care about each other’s feelings or well being of the employees that work in the company. Rather, they are more focused on getting money that the company makes and on their individual careers. There is a lot of blame to go around and they try to avoid negative coverage of the media. You won’t particularly like any of the characters in this series.

Bloodline

Bloodline - Season 01

This is a crime and drama series as is Animal Kingdom. The main character is known as Danny Rayburn who returns to the family after a number of years to attend his parent’s forty-fifth wedding anniversary. There are three more siblings involved and neither of them likes him.

Danny did not make anything of his life and the other three siblings are sure to let him know that they did. All of his other siblings have professional lives with some degree of success. As the series continues, you will come to find that the reason why the other siblings do not care for Danny is due to an accident involving their sister, Sarah who drowned after falling into the sea.

Everyone thought that it was Danny’s fault because he was there with Sarah on the day of her death. When their dad died, his son, Danny, the black sheep of the family becomes one of the employees at the hotel that his parents ran. However, before long, Danny was trading and smuggling cocaine, using the hotel as a front for organized crime. All his siblings knew this and that was another reason for their distaste of him.

  • Main Actors: Sam Shepard, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini and Norbert Leo Butz
  • Director: Daniel Zelman
  • Awards: Writers Guild of America Awards, Satellite Awards, Golden Globe Awards
  • How long it aired: Premiered March 2015; aired May 2016 to final season in May 2017

In the second season, we found out what life was like for Danny before he came home. The directors always had plans for him to stay on the show. Even dead, Danny would have still been the most important thing in his siblings’ lives. The show was always about the role you play in your family, and how you can’t run from it, and how it builds your identity.

John was the good brother and Danny the bad. They are the two sides of the same coin. They could not exist without each other. John would never have been the golden boy, without there being a disaster. And the other two brothers, Megan (Linda Cardellini) and Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz) occupied the space that the two older ones left them. She is “the complacent one, and he is the funny one.

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