Spoiler alert: This post contains plot from the season 3 premiere ofAnimal Kingdom.
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But he would never make it off that table.
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And now, the Codys have to figure out what comes next.
EW spoke withAnimal Kingdomexecutive producerJohn Wellsabout the death and how it will change things moving forward.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We can start with the obvious: Why kill Baz?
JOHN WELLS:It was actually a year later than we thought we were going to do it.
Did you contemplate any other ways of killing him?
How did you decide on the “how” of this death?
It came kind of organically out of the storytelling that we were doing.
How will losing Baz affect the Cody brother dynamic?
Who is going to do what?
Can we still do this?
Should we continue to do it?
What is J’s part in it?
How can Smurf take a stab at control some of it from in jail?
That’s the whole direction that we’re going in the series this year.
Smurf told J (Finn Cole) that Baz was his father.
Did Baz know that he was J’s father?
Because it may just be one more way of manipulating him.
We saw Pope (Shawn Hatosy) go a little off the rails in this premiere.
Are we getting back to the crazier Pope of season 1?
Baz was important to maintaining a general levelness for him.
With Smurf and Baz gone, it’s much more difficult for him to find his moorings.
What will this mean for J’s role in the family?
He isn’t sure and that’s really what it’s about: Should he run?
Does he belong here?
Does he deserve something from these people?
Do they owe him?
Does he want revenge over what they let happen to his mother and to him as a child?
That’s what he’s struggling with.
That’s a big part of the season, watching him attempt to figure out if he belongs.
Animal Kingdomairs Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
