The Trailer For Woody Allen’s TV Show Is Here; Get Ready To Argue About Woody Allen Again
Now with added Miley Cyrus.
Get ready for another edition of Your Fave is Problematic because Woody Allen has a TV series coming to Amazon and the trailer just dropped.
The new single-season show, Crisis in Six Scenes, is Allen’s first foray into the world of TV. Over six episodes it will focus on a middle-class suburban family in the 1960s, whose father (Allen) is trying to write a TV show. The family gets thrown into chaos when a mysterious hippy girl (Miley Cyrus, doing her best post-The Last Song angsty scowl) arrives to steal all of Woody Allen’s navel oranges and challenge his sheltered worldview in a time of turbulent change.
As expected, it has all the hallmarks of your classic quirky, introspective, waxing-neurotic Allen fare — plus, bonus Hannah Montana wig!
The series marks yet another high-profile win for Amazon, as the streaming service zeroes in on the competition, Netflix, which is all-out for world domination at this point. Crisis in Six Scenes is set to premiere just a few days after Amazon’s tentpole series, the heartwrenching family “comedy” Transparent.
However Allen himself doesn’t sound too sold on it. “I’m doing my best with it, but I should never have got into it,” he admitted when quizzed about the series at last year’s Cannes Festival. “I thought six and a half hours would be cinch, but it’s not. It’s very hard. I’m not good at it, I’m floundering. It could be a cosmic embarrassment. I just hope I don’t disappoint Amazon.”
Even if it is that bad, discussion of the quality of the show is bound to be overshadowed by ongoing discourse around Dylan Farrow’s allegation that her adoptive father sexually abused her as a child. This was the case with last year’s premiere of Café Society at Cannes too.
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It’s becoming evermore difficult to separate alleged perpetrators of violence and abuse from their creative output. For his part, Allen has been fortunate to have the full support of the range of actors who have worked with him over his long career. In 2015 this led his son, Ronan Farrow, to publish a piece in The Hollywood Reporter that called out those actors who “continue to line up to star in [Allen’s] movies” and who “trust that the press won’t ask them the tough questions” on the red carpet or in the press junkets for Allen’s films.
Farrow makes an excellent point about “the self-perpetuating spin machine” that allows Allen to continue to work in Hollywood when he has such damning allegations levelled against him. As we approach the release of Crisis in Six Scenes, for many of us the question becomes, “Is it still permissible to support/enjoy Allen’s work?”
Whatever the answer is for you, Crisis in Six Scenes is coming at us on September 30 on Amazon Prime (though there’s no word yet on an Australian release date).