Is There A Line To The Trek At Animal Kingdom

They dropped a couple of bombshells on us, and the stress is real.

Just when information technology seemed like Pope found some semblance of happiness with his skate park, we learn that Thompson is on the Catherine case, and she'southward relentless and not one to play by the rules.

Past the stop of Animal Kingdom Season half dozen Episode 3, she spoke to darling Lena, and past the close of Fauna Kingdom Flavour 6 Episode 4, we establish out she has an informant getting shut to Pope at the skate park. Information technology'southward not looking skillful for the eldest Cody.

We have never seen Pope this happy and stable. It makes the buildup to Thompson coming after Pope experience more than nerve-wracking as a event.

His skate park has brought him such joy, and while he was resistant to the notion of sharing information technology with others, he rapidly realized that if you lot can't, or rather shouldn't, literally beat them, and then join them.

His silent sequence of grabbing and and so abandoning the crowbar in favor of his skateboard, kickstarting some other board session on the ramp with the teens, was such a great ane.

In fact, now is the time to point out that Shawn Hatosy took some other spin in the director's chair for the starting time hour and excelled, as he always seems to practise.

The serial has e'er been this kickass love alphabetic character to Oceanside, but the past couple of seasons accept really taken that and ran with it.

Pope could've saved that ramp for only himself, just at that place was something special about leaving this marker, a more positive ane, contributing to the culture of the expanse via something that was 1 of his first and purest loves.

And it gave other skaters a spot to chill in a fashion that none of the other Codys had growing up, something Deran and Craig pointed out when they visited the identify.

Of course, J only thinks near how they can clean cash through it because everything must accept a deeper purpose. For someone as brilliant every bit he is, he hasn't seemed to grasp the significance of this lot for Pope or that perchance the 1 person remaining who spent the most time with Smurf may just need this petty slice of something for himself.

Deran: All of our avails are tied upwardly in this at this point, if anything happens to you lot, it happens to us.
Pope: Hm. You're starting to sound like him.
Deran: Just saying.

Just passing information technology off every bit a nonprofit and going from there could feasibly work, although J and Deran are correct near the liability they'd face if kids sue for getting hurt.

Little exercise they know, there's some truth to the words that if Pope goes downwards, then they'll all do. They accept no thought that Thompson is correct behind the corner, and the woman is relentless and non afraid to bend the hell out of the rules.

Exterior of the fact that she's coming for our favorite curmudgeon, she's likable. She seems similar a worthy enough opponent; from her perspective, she is merely trying to solve a tragic cold case of a mother.

She doesn't have all the history of the area or subscribes to all the politics that have either kept people coming for the Codys, running for the hills, or under their pollex. And there'southward something refreshing most that.

Thanks to a surprise give-and-take with Lena, and it was and so good to encounter her as we haven't seen her in ages, Thompson is directing her attending to Pope.

She knows that he was likewise at that place the night Catherine died, and she feels like blaming Catherine's death on Baz, another dead person is as well easy.

But information technology'southward a bit troubling that she didn't follow protocol. She spoke to Lena, a child, without her adoptive parents' permission, and she tried to use the intel to go a warrant for the Codys' home to search it.

Anyone in their right mind would nip that in the bud correct away, so I don't empathize her line of thinking if she wants to build an airtight case against a man whose family has THREE boxes of files on them.

Thompson: Tell me what you recall near that last day, Lena. You saw your mom and dad together, right?
Lena: Yeah.
Thompson: Was there anyone else there?
Lena: Uncle Pope was there besides.

What happened to the other cops that J and Deran had in their pocket? The Codys accessed their files during Animate being Kingdom Flavour 5 to read them for themselves, shouldn't ane of their muddied cops be giving them a head'southward up well-nigh Thompson?

Thompson has alternative means of getting what she needs, though, and that's already making her interesting and one to be concerned about hither.

Go figure the child Pope encouraged to fight for himself at the skate park is reluctantly working for her as some blazon of informant. I don't know what she expects to get out of him or how she feels he'll assist in her investigation against Pope since he's unlikely to get any closer to him.

Only he very well could be the person who tips Pope off about Thompson, and then in that regard, her tactic may backlash on her.

Other things about Pope came to light during these two installments, also. Information technology seems we may get to the origins around his nickname of "Pope," and it's probably because of how fatigued he was to church building and whatever happened when he likely couldn't end Smurf and Baz from robbing it and the nice priest.

Nosotros've seen Pope have connections with faith and church before, simply with this groundwork, information technology makes sense. It sucked when Smurf was working overtime to discourage him from attending the prayer meetings with the father and other teens.

Andrew wanted something his alone and a safe infinite where he could mostly exist himself instead of under Smurf's thumb, Julia's twin, or in Baz's shadow.

Sadly, Smurf felt her hold on Andrew slipping away and wanted to do her control again. The woman was truly diabolical the more we run into her interactions with her kids.

Don't become back in that location. They'll merely make you hate yourself. And I love you likewise much for that.

Smurf

It's awful how she used Baz to practise her bidding with the twins, also, and as irritating as it is that he did it all the time, you can understand from his perspective that he felt then indebted to her for taking him in, that even he operated from a fear of being bandage out.

When yous consider his fate, he wasn't wrong for that either. The 2nd he wasn't nether Smurf'due south control, he was disposable and all of a sudden not family.

Andrew was at a critical time where he was still trying to notice his way out and how to be his own person, but Smurf's forces always worked against him.

And he was cognizant of how different he was, peculiarly when he had someone like Baz at that place all the time who he could compare himself, never listen Smurf, who would tell him naught was incorrect with him but imply otherwise.

What did you make of her badgering him nearly if at that place were girls at church building he liked and what types of women he constitute attractive?

She encouraged his inappropriate, muddled fixation on her and Julia but so wanted to make him feel like a freak considering they were the only women in his life.

And the whole affair with her going into his room, endmost and locking the door to be with him didn't help matters either. As if kissing them on the lips and often wielding her sexuality on her sons weren't terrible enough.

The twisted oedipal vibes of Smurf'southward relationships with her sons and J have always been some of the almost disturbing, and seeing it at its origins is cringeworthy.

Julia: You're the reason that he'south like this.
Smurf: At that place is nothing wrong with your brother.
Julia: Baz, come on, I know you see it.
Baz: I hateful he's ever been like that, correct?

No corporeality of distracting Julia with a hot car, having ane fun, bad girl day with her, and keeping her from her well-intentioned path of working an honest job and having a life outside of Smurf's reign could keep the twin from existence concerned nigh Andrew.

The Smurf/Julia relationship is and then royally fucked up, but yous can't tear your eyes abroad. It's like a train wreck where you know how it ends, but the pathway to the crash is fascinating.

Leila George is at her best nonetheless equally immature Smurf, and she's truly getting to dig deep and do more playing off of the teen actors. She and Shine are doing and then well with the nearly complicated Cody relationship of the agglomeration.

Smurf'southward obsession with ruining her daughter or only wanting Julia happy if information technology was by her terms is unbelievable. She flipped her shit when Baz saved the reckoner for Julia and was making the moves on her.

But she was high off herself when she got Julia that car and the 2 of them got loftier and went joyriding, spending the solar day together and forgetting about Andrew altogether.

Smurf's love was conditional, and as a narcissist, she wanted to be in her kids' earth and didn't desire them to part without her. Information technology's twisted.

Tin can we talk near Deran's rising into Smurf? He'south condign so much like her, and it doesn't even seem similar he realizes it.

Did anyone have Deran being the Jack of all Trades in their criminal offense family and conveying the Cody memory on their Bingo Card? Considering I did non.

Historically, he was always the i who either wanted to go off, do his own thing, or bail on the family and the family unit concern altogether.

Interestingly, he'southward arguably the 1 clinging to their family legacy the near. But he's proving to be a triple threat who dabbles in a few of the roles, and it'south both agonizing and fascinating.

Pope wasn't wrong when he said that Deran sounded like J. He's gotten over his issues with his nephew, then information technology seems he sees the value in what J is trying to do and his line of thinking. He's trying to think of a smart style to build on their empire, modernize it, and get in uniquely their own.

He's been good at brainstorming right up there with J, showing that he's since leveled out a chip and got his emotions in bank check enough to mastermind.

Whereas Brute Kingdom Flavor 5 felt like the boys were falling autonomously until Pope got his head on directly enough to rally them together. Now, it feels like J and Deran are running everything while Pope and Craig do their corresponding things.

Deran and J experience similar partners, something you'd never anticipate. But Deran has also taken on some of Pope'southward roles with problem-solving, intimidation, and flat-out beating people up.

It used to be when he called Pope to handle certain things, and now he either does them alone, or he'due south not afraid to get his hands muddied.

Deran and Pope's adventure trying to move Quinn out of the condo provided more than a few laughs. Pope has had some of the best, about hilarious lines this season. His quip about Quinn not resisting if they threw him over the balustrade was priceless.

Pope: Craig's booting all the tenants out of this place?
Deran: Yeah, it was J'south thought.
Pope: He offered this dickhead 5 chiliad to move, why?
Deran: I don't know, path of least resistance, I judge.
Pope: Throw him off the balustrade, there'due south no resistance there.

Y'all had to feel bad for Quinn, though. He was a veteran who didn't want to stop up homeless once again. He gave Smurf twenty years of doing whatever she needed and turning a blind eye to things as long as he could stay there with his ducks.

Smurf was a master at picking the people she wanted to work with and use. Quinn was vulnerable, and Smurf knew how to exploit that to her advantage.

She has this manner of making people dependent on her, then Quinn felt lost over the prospect of not having her at that place to house them and shield him from the rest of the globe.

Y'all could tell Pope empathized with Quinn and encouraged Deran to discover another solution that worked, which led to Deran doing something you'd expect from Smurf.

Craig: What the hell are you even doing here, huh?
Deran: I just desire to talk to you.
Craig: You wanna talk? Alright, talk.
Deran: You're not picking upward your phone. You're leaving family meetings. You lot're acting all different, and I don't even recognize you anymore homo.

No help comes for free, and Trey quickly learned that when Deran brought Quinn over to stay with and work for him. Information technology was a classic favor for a favor where Trey had a debt to pay because of Deran's assistance.

Even how Deran has behaved with Craig has shades of Smurf'southward worst traits. He's so codependent when it comes to Craig, and at present that Craig is trying to do his own thing and become his life and family together, Deran is in his feelings.

He liked Craig ameliorate when he was loftier simply likewise when Craig depended on him, like some bundle deal of them against the earth. But Craig has been focused on his kid and Renn and now this biker friend group, and Deran is freaking out that his brother doesn't need him anymore.

It seems like such a switch-up that we accept Deran as the 1 who's drinking too much, being reckless, and just spreading his misery.

He seemed smug and pleased when he saw Craig drink, but he was correct back to being frustrated that Craig has been distancing himself and blowing them off beyond job updates and has been hanging with Vince and the bikers instead.

It's like Deran is trying to manipulate Craig into staying in his life, spouting that same shit about focusing on the family (i.east., the Codys) versus annihilation else that Smurf always did.

Deran is riding the hot mess limited difficult right now. And for all his digs almost Vince perhaps being a cop and not trustworthy, there's notwithstanding some shadiness with Great Value Matt Bomer, his utterly confused bang buddy who tin can't read a room.

Discount Adrian asks way too many questions and tries to dig into Deran's business too much, which seems too suspicious. Information technology'due south hard to say if he'southward someone coming for them or if he'south just a stage v clinger who hasn't realized that Deran is emotionally unavailable damaged goods.

Perchance he'll terminate asking so many questions at present that some of Deran'due south mysterious façade has faded, and information technology's a fleck horrifying.

The second that asshole started up with his homophobic remarks, information technology was apparent that Deran had a little something planned for him. He wouldn't be Deran if he didn't.

It wasn't even a surprise that he used his clingy boy toy as allurement so he could kick the bar patron'southward ass. Even so, things took a agonizing plough when he went to unbuckle his pants and essentially threatened the homophobe with the very opposite of a "good fourth dimension."

Discount Adrian seems a bit likewise groomed and upstanding to see something like that and not want to run for the hills, understandably. It was such an incredibly dark, unnerving scene.

Deran: You actually think one brother will plow on the other like that?
J: Yep, if we play information technology right.

The two hours heavily alluded to the inappropriate sexual acquit that has always factored into the Codys' lives. Sexual abuse is a spectrum, and arguably all of Smurf's sons brandish some behaviors and lingering furnishings that pull from that as an feel.

Craig has a full-blown addiction, sex existence one of his many vices and one that he's turned to as he tries to stay make clean of drugs and alcohol. Deran's aggressive and impersonal approach has always had him fucking like he's at war with the person, rarely intimate, e'er rough, damn near vehement. And Pope's sexual habits are the almost overtly "off."

He was the simply one not getting laid during these installments. Craig'southward hitting the ladies hard since he'due south been trying to go clean, and Vince is encouraging information technology so he doesn't experience bad well-nigh it.

Vince's approach to things is unorthodox, only he has some positive influence on Craig. Still, the bar is so low on providing back up that even this stranger who still feels potentially shady is a standout.

Vince: Those are some red eyes, bro.
Craig: Yeah, I messed upwards, man. Disrepair my ass to stay make clean and but pissed information technology away in ten minutes.
Vince: Yeah, it'due south not a directly path.
Craig: People like me drunk and high. My ex. My brothers. It started with my mom.

If you approach things from the perspective of Vince, peradventure knowing who Craig is and the Cody reputation and perhaps trying to lure Craig into HIS illegal activities, maybe nosotros're onto something.

In the name of Craig's sobriety, information technology does seem like he's encouraging Craig to altitude himself from his family and old life while also enticing him into his world of bikes, broads, thrill-seeking, and mayhap more offense.

They already hit a diner, and Vince heavily implied that Craig didn't have to give up his ways of making coin to stay clean.

He left a door open for Craig to back-trail him in whatever his pursuits are, and he'south been easing him into things with the offering to stay at his biker friend'south condo instead of Baz's former dwelling house and showing off the items he makes.

Who just casually makes a car gun like that, correct? Hell, who doesn't blink at a guy banging his ex-wife in the backroom of a bar and grill?

Craig is in an interesting position where in that location is merit on both sides of things. Deran is right to exist suspicious of Vince, but because Deran is coming from a selfish, destructive, unsupportive identify, it gets lost.

And Vince is right about Craig's sobriety. It was a scrap surprising how close Craig has gotten to Vince in this short time. He already considers Vince his sponsor, and the moment he fell off the wagon afterward that irritating confrontation with Renn, he went right to Vince to share.

Craig's path toward staying clean is commendable, particularly when you see that despite her puzzling attempt to go along Craig away from Nick, Renn is living the fast life, too.

What's the logic in her punishing Craig for getting loftier and not prioritizing his family and likewise doing the same when he gets sober and prioritizes her and Nick?

And why is she not processing that her lifestyle and drug habit are dangerous to Nick?

The inevitable moment when something happens to Nick and Craig has to save him, equally twisted as information technology sounds, will be so satisfying because Renn is a mess of contradictions and coke.

Fifty-fifty sober, Craig makes some questionable decisions, though. The human being looked good while doing the recon at Eddie's identify. Only he wasn't looking succulent enough to not enhance suspicions by visibly scanning for cameras and wandering areas he shouldn't.

Craig needs lessons from J on looking without appearing as though he's looking. The second he wandered off seconds after arriving at the place, you held your breath, waiting for him to get caught.

The job with Eddie is ambitious every bit hell and could go pear-shaped a 1000000 unlike means. J is so determined about it, though.

So much of this job going well depends on Arthur wanting to stick it to his one-half-brother. It'south such a succulent thing to explore because J has all the faith in the world that the two of them existence blood isn't synonymous with loyalty.

It had tripped up both Deran and Pope when J made his case. In a style, they can't fathom that, simply so Pope seemingly eased off the notion of it existence outlandish when he likely considered his relationship with Baz.

Craig: Bro, I only banged your ex married woman and you lot seriously don't give a shit?
Vince: Ex, man. Wait, she got her life, I got mine.

It besides seemed similar J'south adamance well-nigh this had Deran side-eying him for a second. In J's heed, loyalty and allegiance can exist cleaved if one party doesn't treat the other right.

He and Craig saw how Eddie treated Arthur, and while Arthur does all the work, Eddie takes all the celebrity and lives the best life. Even with that in mind, Arthur seems like a wild carte du jour.

But for now, he took J up on that offering, gave them something they could work with regarding Eddie taking $750k worth of goods offsite, and negotiated a bargain for himself.

It's an exciting heist, but it sounds like one that will have the states on the edge of our seats and a real nailbiter.

On the other mitt, in that location are so many flags going up with Penny. What is her deal? She sounds like she has a flake of hustle and grift, and you could tell she's trying to experience J out.

I'll never forget her reaction to the toll of J's properties.

As a secretary who works at a law firm that handles estates, Penny asking J to run into her to scope out a edifice she wants to buy and get his advice on what to do with information technology was and then transparent.

And their dinner turned engagement at the pier was nice plenty, but the daughter is working angles that feel similar more than just having sex activity with her law business firm'southward hot customer.

Smurf: How's community service going?
Andrew: It'south non so bad.
Smurf: Really? It'south not so bad? Aren't you lot picking up dog shit and candy wrappers?
Andrew: Meliorate than juvie.
Smurf: Don't get defenseless. You won't have to do either.

It seems she's feeling J out and wants in on whatever she thinks he's into. She casually shared that she's a secretary who both has access to and reads through confidential files of clients when "bored," and shows that she uses that information to her advantage.

She casually tested the waters by sharing a time she stole and got in trouble and tried to run into if he'd admit something when he told her he knew almost the room they took her to as a event.

She openly expresses how bored and disinterested she is in her deployed hubby. She initially seemed to brushoff J'south flirting only to double down on her own and lure him into a date.

Penny is suspect as hell!

Over to you lot, Animal Kingdom Fanatics.

Were y'all shocked by that Lena reveal? What's your impression of Thompson? What practice y'all make of Deran these days? Let's discuss all the things beneath.

Jasmine Blu is a senior staff writer for Television Fanatic. Follow her on Twitter.

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