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The Kennedys is the best miniseries you almost weren't allowed to see.
—Linda Stasi New York Post
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It is awesome. It may be the best television miniseries you've ever seen.
—Rush Limbaugh Facebook
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...riveting, entertaining and educational.
—John Ziegler The Daily Caller
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The Kennedys has turned out to be the best depiction of this doomed and overreaching clan ever put on TV.
—Tom Carson GQ
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Despite the bumpy road that got it here, and the stigma attached, The Kennedys turns out to be a solidly entertaining portrait.
—Frazier Moore Associated Press
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...the audience will be ... enthralled by this dramatization of the Kennedy family saga...
—Dorothy Rabinowitz Wall Street Journal
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The Kennedys is a hugely watchable political Dallasty...
—Adam Sweeting The Arts Desk (U.K.)
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...a lavish and well-drawn series...
—Sean Marland On the Box (U.K.)
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....both unsettling to watch and addictive.
—Allesandra Stanley New York Times
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(Greg) Kinnear gives a strong performance as John, (Tom) Wilkinson is suitably reptilian as paterfamilias Joe, the always watchable Barry Pepper excels as the conflicted Bobby and (Katie) Holmes certainly looks the part as Jackie...
—Sarah Hughes The Independent (U.K.)
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...well worth seeing.
—Derek Hunter Big Hollywood
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Definitive history The Kennedys is not. But most of the flaws explored here mostly make the characters seem human. The series credits wins as well as losses and sends most of its characters home on a positive note.
—David Hinckley New York Daily News
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...watchable, but not great TV...
—Ramin Setoodeh Newsweek
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In attempting to be both sprawling and intimate, The Kennedys winds up in a narrative no-man's land.
—Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times