Crisis in Six Scenes

I'm not a Woody Allen "Stan" so I don't have his previous work to reflect on but I don't agree with the critics reviews on this series. I found it funny and a pleasure to watch. It wasn't life changing but it kept my interest. I think if you come with an expectation of something light and fun to watch you won't be disappointed.

I have missed Woody Allen acting in his own films.

This Amazon project brings him back to the screen " cause the dough is good" as his character tells his hairdresser. In that opening scene Allen gives his testimony of this for him unique project.

If you like the earlier films of Woody Allen, in which he always acted in the leading roles, you will like this.

It's the continuation of the New York laid-back humour and wise cracks like in the film "Small Time Crooks". This is not a politically correct series and I appreciate Amazon didn't censor its content too much.

Still, I think this series will be generally better received in Europe, where Allen's biggest fans are, strangely enough concentrated in Italy, France and Spain (countries where all his movies are dubbed).

Standing ovation for Crisis in Six Scenes.

From word go this series read as pure satire to me. This isn't about the sixties. It's about today set in in the sixties. I've read several other reviews and apparently I'm the only one who focused in on this. In fact, no one else even mentioned it. Am I really the only one? Half the dialogue is, yes, shout-outs to the sixties, but half the dialogue is also straight out of our recent presidential primary and election. I think if people approach this show as a political commentary rather than a comedy it will read much funnier. Just a suggestion.

Woody Allen feels as clunky as always and certainly this is not a comfortable venue for Allen in storytelling. Still, they're hitting us over our heads with quotes straight out of the Bernie Sander's campaign speeches and everyone is talking about less-than-subtle parallels with Salinger. We get the Salinger connection but not the Bernie Sanders ones? Were it many months or years past this monstrous political year we just experienced (and are still experiencing,) I might understand this. In our current political space in time, however, I'm surprised to see this element dismissed.

If that's really the case, then personally, I think we need a lot more headbanging. Anything but subtle correlations with just how far backward we have gone in this country should be the only thing allowed...if it's a satirical political commentary you're after, that is.

Probably, that's not what anyone was expecting from Woody Allen, including Allen. But that's how nearly every scene of this series read to me.

Tishacp

I absolutely loved this. Everything starts a little slow, but the pacing increases up to the last episode, where everything becomes really fun and with a great rhythm (really laughing out loud in the end... I don't remember the last time I did like that watching a comedy)... like one of the most messed up movies of Allen from the 70s, but with less nonsense. I can't understand the bad reviews. Maybe it's because I'm an Allen fan (but not an "hardcore one"), maybe it's because I'm 40, maybe the italian dub was way better than the real actors (it was good, but not amazing...)... I don't know. It's not a movie, so you won't find that kind if production values. It's not a huge series with hundreds of episodes (game of thrones, breaking bad...). It's a sort of "theatrical" movie. I registered on IMDB just to post this review.

I stayed away from this one, having read Woody's dismissive comments about the project (not to mention the generally lukewarm-to-negative critical reviews). So I was taken aback to discover "Crisis in Six Scenes" is actually solid latter-day Allen. While the plot is predictable, it serves as a sufficiently effective frame for Woody's always delightful dialogue. The Old Man's still got it.