For a show with such an expansive-sounding title, Animal Kingdom is remarkably insular. Someone with the last name “Cody” appears in every scene of “We Don’t Hurt People,” which works both for and against the show....

The trailers for TNT’s Animal Kingdom, as effective as they are, are somewhat misleading. By that I mean, they don’t do the show justice. Based on the 2010 Australian film of the same name, Animal Kingdom follows Joshua...