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The series is set in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States. A middle class suburban family is visited by a guest (played by Miley Cyrus ) who turns their household completely upside down.

Cast

Main cast

• Woody Allen as Sidney Munsinger
• Miley Cyrus as Lennie Dale
• Elaine May as Kay Munsinger
• Rachel Brosnahan as Ellie
• John Magaro as Allen Brockman

Guest stars

• Becky Ann Baker as Lee
• Joy Behar as Ann
• Lewis Black as Al
• Christine Ebersole as Eve
• Gad Elmaleh as Moe
• David Harbor as Vic
• Margaret Ladd as Gail
• Michael Rapaport as Trooper Mike
• Rebecca Schull as Rose

Episodes

No.	title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	“Episode 1”	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	September 30, 2016
2	“Episode 2”	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	September 30, 2016
3	“Episode 3”	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	September 30, 2016
4	“Episode 4”	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	September 30, 2016
5	“Episode 5”	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	September 30, 2016
6	“Episode 6”	Woody Allen	Woody Allen	September 30, 2016

Production

Development

The deal with Allen was seen as giving Amazon a possible advantage in its competition with Netflix and television networks. The Golden Globe Award for the comedy-drama Transparent , another original series. ^[6] Allen had last written new material for television in the 1950s, when he wrote for Sid Caesar . ^[4]

In a May 2015 interview, Allen said that progress on the series had been “very, very difficult” and that he had “regretted every second since I said OK”. ^[7] [8] Allen HAS Said of the series, “I do not know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin. My guess Is That Roy Price [the head of Amazon Studios] will regret this. ” ^{[2] [3] [9]}

Casting

In January 2016, it was announced that the series would star Allen, Elaine May and Miley Cyrus , and that shoot would begin in March. ^[10] In February 2016, it was announced that John Magaro and Rachel Brosnahan had joined the cast. ^[11] In March 2016, Michael Rapaport , Becky Ann Baker , Margaret Ladd , Joy Behar , Rebecca Schull , David Harbour and Christine Ebersole HAD joined the cast of the series. ^[12]

Filming

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Reception

Critical response

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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the series has an approval rating of 19%, based on 43 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7 / 10. The site’s critical consensus reads, “Woody Allen’s filmmaking skills prove a poor fit for the small screen in Crisis in Six Scenes , a talk-heavy, unfunny, and overall disengaged production. ^[14] On Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating, the series has a score of out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”. ^[15]

Rodrigo Perez from The Playlist gave the series to D + on an A + to F scale, and described it as “Hamfisted and nearly unwatchable.” ^[16]

Allen has had openly expressed severe misgivings about the project. ^{[2] [3] [17]} At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival , Allen said in reference to the show, “It was a catastrophic mistake.” I do not know what I’m doing. To be a cosmic embarrassment. ” ^[18]

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