Die Kennedys: After Camelot

Firstly at nearly 80 years old I remember "Camelot" clearly (I even wrote a fan letter to JFK and received an auto-penned photograph) and as such found the entire first miniseries outstanding -and in particular Greg Kinnear as JFK- as it stripped away the mythology of America's greatest political dynasty and revealed that family for the deeply-flawed people they were.

Originally, Showtime was to air THE KENNEDYS but panicked when Caroline Kennedy threatened legal action which nearly scuttled the entire project before the Reelz channel picked up the broadcast option. And even after airing, the DVD release was very slow in coming... especially to the United States. I actually had to order mine from Canada where the series was filmed.

AFTER CAMELOT avoided any such legal problems by simply eliminating Caroline from the narrative and that's why you won't see her portrayed here.

While AFTER CAMELOT lacks the style and quality of THE KENNEDYS it nevertheless furnishes an accurate account of a family riddled with all-too-human frailties and failures as both erase the legends we were once convinced to be genuine.