'The Kennedys' Review: Viewers Will Be 'Sadly Disappointed'

7:06 PM PDT 3/29/2011 by Tim Goodman

The miniseries, airing Sunday on ReelzChannel, "feels like a paint-by-numbers recitation of history and a not-very-sordid waste of artistic license."

If someone in the Kennedy family really did pressure the History channel to drop its $25 million miniseries The Kennedys, they shouldn’t have bothered with all the fuss. All the ink that was spilled on the machinations behind History changing course — and others turning it down until it was picked up by ReelzChannel — only increased the curiosity.