This should go down in the annals of absolute schlock. Not quite up to the quality of "The Crown", to put it mildly. This dreck belongs on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Matthew Perry is horrendous in every scene he is in. What fool producer cast him in this mess (oh, never mind)?
Katie Holmes reprises her vapid Jackie-in-a-haze performance as one of only two characters in the entire production that show any redeemable qualities - and her back-and-forth from "I'm in the family" to "I am not in the family" make absolutely no sense.
If 10% of the script is true, Ted Kennedy should have spent many years in prison. His late night call to the front desk of a motel after the car crash is completely moronic. His portrayal of calling the women dumb names like "Joansy" and "Jacksy" are nothing more than annoying. Not clever or "inside Ted", just dumb.
A great scene is where Ted learns that a girl dies from cancer and her parents went broke trying to pay for care. He is an oblivious boob, but this becomes his "calling in life". Which he never fulfilled.
Another where this boob blows any chance to beat Carter for the Democratic nomination (typically through his own stupidity); he bring "Joansy" down to DC to speak for him (she was going to AA twice a day at the time), and then, when he blows it, it drives her to the airport and embraces his mistress while old "Joansy" is sitting in the car. What a great human being!
Ethel is portrayed as a psycho witch, believing she has a Kennedy birthright. Crazier than Old Lady Rose.
Joan is almost likable (if you leave out that she was dumb enough to get involved with Ted and was a lush).
Onassis is almost likable as portrayed (if you overlook his Mediterranean views toward women, his ongoing affair with Maria Callas, and best of all, his psycho shrine to Jackie).
John John is a boob. Flunks and flunks, then flunks some more, then decides he should run for office. He has good hair.
Caroline isn't in this, other than briefly as a child. Must have decent lawyers.
The show ends abruptly with John John and wife getting on a plane. Not the trip that killed them, but just another less eventful trip they planned to take. The closing credits allude to the later crash.
Matthew Perry is horrendous in every scene he is in. What fool producer cast him in this mess (oh, never mind)?
Katie Holmes reprises her vapid Jackie-in-a-haze performance as one of only two characters in the entire production that show any redeemable qualities - and her back-and-forth from "I'm in the family" to "I am not in the family" make absolutely no sense.
If 10% of the script is true, Ted Kennedy should have spent many years in prison. His late night call to the front desk of a motel after the car crash is completely moronic. His portrayal of calling the women dumb names like "Joansy" and "Jacksy" are nothing more than annoying. Not clever or "inside Ted", just dumb.
A great scene is where Ted learns that a girl dies from cancer and her parents went broke trying to pay for care. He is an oblivious boob, but this becomes his "calling in life". Which he never fulfilled.
Another where this boob blows any chance to beat Carter for the Democratic nomination (typically through his own stupidity); he bring "Joansy" down to DC to speak for him (she was going to AA twice a day at the time), and then, when he blows it, it drives her to the airport and embraces his mistress while old "Joansy" is sitting in the car. What a great human being!
Ethel is portrayed as a psycho witch, believing she has a Kennedy birthright. Crazier than Old Lady Rose.
Joan is almost likable (if you leave out that she was dumb enough to get involved with Ted and was a lush).
Onassis is almost likable as portrayed (if you overlook his Mediterranean views toward women, his ongoing affair with Maria Callas, and best of all, his psycho shrine to Jackie).
John John is a boob. Flunks and flunks, then flunks some more, then decides he should run for office. He has good hair.
Caroline isn't in this, other than briefly as a child. Must have decent lawyers.
The show ends abruptly with John John and wife getting on a plane. Not the trip that killed them, but just another less eventful trip they planned to take. The closing credits allude to the later crash.