This was very interesting and highly enjoyable. The acting from all the principals was first rate. Especially Kinnear who seemed to actually BE JFK. Or at least the first few episodes were. I put up with the three Generals merged into one, and the possibly five CIA guys merged into one - as hell, Oliver Stone used to do this stuff ! But this was supposed to be a History Channel production. It isn't really History if you use amalgamated characters. I even put up with the German Ju52 ( with its obvious fixed undercarriage ) dropping the Anti Castro paratroops in 1960. But did this piece of bogus footage have to be on the credits every week? No, what really hacked me off was the invented dialogue with Marilyn, who seemed to be more like Madonna and far too young, and the rehashing of the Lone Nut/Oswald did it nonsense all over again. And no Teddy ? Perhaps if he had been in it we would have had to have seen where he was on 22 /11/ 63. At the Capitol building, as the entire Washington phone network was knocked out by the plotters to prevent the Senate interfering. But then the History Channel doesn't want this anomaly recorded as history - a new generation might start asking questions.
Review of The Kennedys
