There are certain pop culture stories that feel so large and omnipresent, that even if you don’t actively follow them, they somehow seep into your consciousness. For most people my age growing up in India, one such story was the saga of Princess Diana and the British royal family.

And yet there exists another dynasty, with an equally glamorous and tragic story — The Kennedys — that somehow slipped past my attention almost entirely until a new show brought them back on our social media feeds.