‘Crisis In Six Scenes’ Trailer: Woody Allen’s First TV Series Looks Like…a Woody Allen Movie
By Jacob Hall/Sept. 14, 2016 8:59 am EST
Crisis in Six Scenes finds Allen (appearing in one of his own projects for the first time since 2012’s To Rome With Love) playing Sidney Muntzinger, your typical neurotic suburban father figure grappling with all kinds of low-key crises in in the midst of the turbulent 1960s. His supporting cast includes Elaine May and Miley Cyrus, proof that Allen’s knack for attracting a variety of performers to his projects survived in his leap between entertainment mediums.
Crisis in Six Scenes Trailer
If the trailer feels more like a collection of one-liners and jokes than an actual preview, know that the official synopsis is also pretty vague:
There’s no trendy hook or high concept here. There’s a simplicity to the set-up of Crisis in Six Scenes that can’t help but be appealing and the first teaser for the series revealed that this show would be built around the old school banter that has defined so many Allen pictures. Of course, Allen’s recent output has been inconsistent at best, but movies like Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine have shown that he’s still capable of creating impressive work.
Crisis in Six Scenes is a comedy that takes place in the 1960’s during turbulent times in the United States and a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.
Crisis in Six Scenes is set to arrive on September 30, 2016.
That’s something we have to figure out with Woody. We’ll see how he feels and [what he] wants to do. He’s busy because he does a movie a year, so it’s hard. Normally he shoots a movie in the summer. Then he got this in right before it. I don’t know that he’ll always be able to do this schedule that way, because he also has to write too. I would do it.
