Ethel: Season 1

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: October 18, 2012

Summary: Rory Kennedy chronicles the life of her mother, Ethel Kennedy through family pictures, home movies, news footage, and interviews.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary

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S1:E1. Ethel
Air Date: October 18, 2012

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Verne Gay

Oct 16, 2012

A loving portrait of a lady--but who probably would be just as happy not to have this or any portrait at all. Read full review

Tara Fowler

Oct 15, 2012

This intimate biopic of a Kennedy matriarch is quite charming. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Oct 16, 2012

Ethel is a moving, highly enjoyable, thoroughly absorbing portrait. Read full review

David Wiegand

Oct 15, 2012

You will come away from the film understanding a great deal about an extraordinary woman who played much more than just a supporting role in a significant period in our history. Perhaps more important, you will get a better sense of that historic period as well. Read full review

Ellen Gray

Oct 18, 2012

Though Ethel can't possibly be construed as a tell-all, much less the work of an impartial observer, it's great that someone finally got her to talk at all. Read full review

Cynthia Fuchs

Oct 18, 2012

Again and again, Ethel insists she doesn't like to "talk about" her self, doesn't like to be introspective. And so the film offers images for the rest of us to parse, public performances that may or may not reveal what we want to see. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

Oct 17, 2012

Ethel is tone-deaf and maddeningly incomplete. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 18, 2012
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  S1:E1. Ethel
  Air Date: October 18, 2012