The Kennedys on TV, A Concluding Review

We viewed the final episode of The Kennedys last evening. It did not disappoint. All these years later I can still remember the shock I felt in grad school when Bobby was murdered in an L.A. hotel kitchen. That is where the mini-series ends.

An odd thing about the series was that, watching it, you would never have known Jack and Bobby had a younger brother Teddy. Can he have been so invisible during this time?

Perhaps the plan is to do a Kennedys 2.0 series including Ted at Chappaquiddick, his failed run for president, his evolution into grey eminence of the senate plus the death of John, Jr.? The family has been an ongoing soap opera.

BTW, it is clear why the Kennedy family and its hangers-on didn't want this series to air. Camelot loses magic when you see that the knights were flawed, the armor rusty, the table not round, and the motives often less-than-pure.