First episode is out?

I just watched the first episode of this "documentary", and I noticed
the bias from the first minutes of it. That's OK, I guess, I can listen
objectively for new information and see if I can make any more sense
out of this story than I already have.

It does seem heavily stacked against Woody, and told in such a way as
to spin the story in a way negative to Woody. That is OK too, because
at least from what I saw, there was some kind of inappropriateness
between Woody and Mia ... but there was also a very weird relationship
between the two.

First, there is Mia with several husbands, kids, lots of adopted kids and
a kind of homebody, or that is how it is portrayed. There is a lot of spin
going on in this, but it seems reasonable to at least consider that even
exaggerated there is something weird going on. The psychiatrist telling
Mia that Woody was inappropriately intense with Dylan. The thing is that
it has been 30 years now, and why is this being re-hashed again in public.

The really odd thing is that it is not all out there in one fell swoop, there
is all this innuendo dropped, and all from Mia's POV with her acquaintances,
and friends and her side of the story ... so far. It seems off that if this is
really "Allen V. Farrow" which implies a kind of courtroom like objectivity
that it is presented in a way that is not really balanced, and released to
push the maximum impact of Mia's/Dylan's experience.

I am watching, but I wonder, what is this all about. What are they saying
about Woody? As far as crimes, or potential crimes - none of it is spoken
of, just the kind of damning praise of Woody being so loved and comments
about him being portrayed as the opposite of what he is ... but they don't
say what they think he really is. That is, yet, I guess. So, the story hinges
on Woody having multiple odd things and bad parenting skills and not being
appropriate as a parent, with no skills and some kind of intense passion
for Dylan, and yet in the public this was all about one event where Woody
was supposed to have touched Dylan inappropriately.

So, what is it they want? They do not let on in this first chapter, and they
do not give Woody and Soon-yi any bandwidth in this story except to quote
to their own advantage in their own way excerpts from Woody's latest
book. That is truly unfair, and not the kind of objectivity one would like
to see from something that is truly fair ... like a documentary would
indicate, especially one tagged in a way as to be a kind of trial, with due
process on both sides. I did not see that from this first episode ... and
I do wonder why this all had to be released bit by bit instead of all at once?

It seems to me that every cinematic and marketing decisions was done to
put Woody in the worst possible light, and to justify that by what they claim
was going on.

Whatever happened, from Mia's, Dylan's and now Ronan's point of view,
it all seems aimed at taking Woody down and casting him in the same
light as Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, and others who actually committed
crimes, and recurring crimes and cover-ups as well. To me that seems
vicious, vindictive and vengeful, but one wants to give Mia's story its due
since she went through something that was just not something anyone
should have to go though, and Woody's dismissal that the "heart wants
what it wants" kind of thing is not really covering up seducing and taking
pornographic ( Mia's words) pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi.

I unpleasantly await to see the rest of this series, but I have to admit I
am rather sick of it and do not yet see why this is a story that has to get
new revisions of itself every few years, and why whenever Woody releases
a book or movie at this point Mia/Dylan and now Ronan have to dump all
over it? Maybe the rest of the series will explain that, but it doesn't look
quite fair to me in this first glimpse.