Even for die-hard Woody Allen fans, this isn't very good

Your friends at cut print film are dead wrong. At least as far as this die-hard Woody Allen fan is concerned; I enjoyed it immensely. It had me laughing several times over the course of its six episodes.

Too bad Cafe Society couldn't have been as good as this series.

Don't agree. 30 year old female Woody Allen fan (of his film work that is) and I'm loving it so far.

I will watch it and see myself, critics also didn't like his last movie very much, for me it was his best in years.

Can't always take critics word for things, many shows and movies and games that got trashed by critics ended up being some of my favorites.

Hell, did you know that Blade Runner was killed by critics when it came out? Now it is looked at as a classic. best to watch it and see for yourself imo.

Yeah, it's a very flawed work for sure. I wouldn't call it a "catastrophe". That just seems excessively hyperbolic but the film, I mean show, Crisis In Six Scenes leaves a bit to be desired.

You can tell watching it that Woody Allen really wasn't sure how to go about telling a story in a medium that is new to him so he allowed scenes & moments to drag in order to fill up the pre-requisite 22/23 minute per episode runtimes to act as chapter breaks. I still enjoyed the show - I'm a Woody Allen fan for sure - but it is certainly one of his lesser works of late. His blocking of actors was still on point but a lot of the little magic bits that Allen can make work in his feature films was not there. Far too much of the show was made up of long drawn out shot + reverse shot sequences of people at tables & while he doesn't get the respect he should a lot of Allen's films are really beautiful to look at. Crisis' visual look was .... serviceable.

Possibly the exact same story would have worked as a four episode series. The 1st & 2nd episode easily could have been combined since the first episode was exists to simply say "these two old people are happy in their old age" & the second merely says "Look at this crazy rebel who's going to throw everything out of alignment!" & both those ideas could have been more effectively gotten across in ten minute chunks each instead of 23 minutes a piece.

Still, I had fun. Elaine May was great, Woody Allen didn't do anything new as a performer & was fine, I liked a lot of the supporting cast. Miley Cyrus though was really bad though. Perhaps it's because she had to fill the non-existent role of "Militant Rebel" or just the weird way she poorLY annunciaTED HEr LInes but her scenes almost always failed.

It's not terrible but like some of the lesser films Allen can make - hey, when you put out a new film ever year, two in the case of 2016, they aren't all going to be masterpieces - I think now that I've seen Crisis In Six Scenes once I doubt I'll ever sit down to watch it again in my lifetime.

Still, I had fun & best thing about the "show" is how short it is. There will be no second season. You can watch the whole thing in an evening.

There. It's on the Internet. Thus it's official

I would say it felt like what would have been one of his more forgettable movies but stretched out by an extra 30-40 mins. The only real difference is each of the scenes goes on a lot longer to fill up time. I'm not saying this to knock him. The guy is over 80 years old and has been making a movie a year for a certain way for the past five decades. He just probably shouldn't have tried to tackle a different format if he wasn't prepared to really adjust to it.

I agree. And I guess that answers the question of this being a "series" instead of what it obviously is, a mini-series. But, while I wouldn't go as far as calling it a catastrophe, I think it's really just blunt and dull, covering the same ground but in a different era. An era that, ironically, Allen was busy making extremely funny, brilliant movies to make us forget about what he piles on, way to thick, on this show.

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I consider myself only a "moderate" Woody Allen fan (there were a couple of his movies I couldn't even finish), and I thought this was pretty good...it kept me entertained.

Formerly RIP_Matthew_Abaddon.

I tried to watch the first episode, and idk, it felt exactly like all his movies, him babbling about, with a fancy artsy background...