

Ellen Barkin’s character haunts the show like a ghost, permeating the rest of the cast’s actions and emotions, not to mention screwing them over one final time by leaving her entire estate to her friend Pam ( Charlayne Woodard).
#ANIMAL KINGDOM SEASON 5 SERIES#
We’re now nearly halfway through Animal Kingdom Season 5, and Smurf is well and truly gone. Animal Kingdom is a TV series version of an Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated Australian film of the same name. RELATED: Ben Robson on ‘Animal Kingdom’ and Why This Has Been a Defining Season for His Character It’s a moment of not only nuclear-level family dysfunction, but one in which J symbolically takes the reins of the family business and puts himself at the forefront of his uncles’ criminal undertakings. But as it turns out, it’s the level-headed brains of the tribe, J ( Finn Cole), who pulls the trigger before his unstable grandmother potentially kills his uncle. It’s a tense moment, as she screams at Pope ( Shawn Hatosy), the tortured muscle of the family, to do it, while he battles his love/hate demons for his mother. Smurf aka Janine Cody (Ellen Barkin), is waving a gun around threatening to shoot one of her three adult sons or her teenage grandson should one of them not put a bullet in her head to end her suffering from cancer. Cut to the finale of Animal Kingdom Season 4.
