Netflix orders eight-episode Kennedy drama about the Kennedy family

Netflix has greenlit an eight-episode drama series titled Kennedy, the streamer said on Oct. 21, 2025, that will chronicle the rise of the Kennedy political family beginning in the 1930s. Michael Fassbender has been cast as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and the first season will follow Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children as the family builds social and political influence that would reverberate through American history.

The series is adapted from Fredrik Logevall’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography JFK Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956. Sam Shaw, creator of the historical drama Manhattan, will serve as showrunner and executive producer, and Oscar nominated director Thomas Vinterberg will direct the first season and also executive produce. The production is being developed by Chernin Entertainment, with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Kaitlin Dahill among the executive producers. Other executive producers include Eric Roth, Logevall, Lila Byock, Anya Epstein, Dustin Thomason and Anna O’Malley.

According to the series synopsis, Kennedy will "reveal the intimate lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies that shaped the most iconic dynasty in modern history, and helped...