Netflix's Bobby Kennedy for President feels necessary, even amid the slew of Kennedy media attention

Vulture

The four-part documentary that Netflix released today contains one of TV's most heartbreaking moments, says Jen Chaney. "The loss of (Robert F.) Kennedy is still a fresh wound for Lewis and others, 50 years after the fact, and Bobby Kennedy for President, directed by documentarian Dawn Porter, spends four hours showing us why," says Chaney. "While it may seem like American culture has given us way more than enough explorations of the Kennedy family, this project distinguishes itself by tracing RFK’s journey from attorney general to senator to presidential candidate in a way that stands out from accounts that often focus on either his relationship to his older brother, or on June 6, 1968, the night he was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The crucial difference makes Bobby Kennedy for President feel necessary, especially for those who either don’t remember the era or weren’t alive when it all happened." ALSO: It’s rare that a series of this nature hits so close to home.