Woody plays to his strength here. He very smartly plays the neurotic character of his old days and it's still very funny. He also is a great judge of female talent and Miley Cyrus just kills it here. By that I mean she is fantastic. Amazing, in this late stage he can still be his old funny self. I loved it!

In late-1960s upstate New York, an elderly writer and his wife, as well as their impressionable houseguest who's about to be married, are all given a crash-course in political radicalization by a young woman on the run from the police and FBI. She's of the Constitutional Liberation Army, rebelling against the Vietnam War, imperial fascism and the U.S. government; the wife, an acquaintance of the girl's grandmother, invites her to stay in their house against her husband's wishes until she can escape to Cuba. Writer-director Woody Allen's six-episode series for Amazon Studios (each installment lasting about 23 minutes) is one of the loosest, craziest projects the filmmaker has delivered in a long time. He's assembled an unusual cast, including Elaine May as his spouse and Miley Cyrus as the radical. The series has some lapses in timing and occasionally a geriatric pace (this is a white-haired Woody Allen whose character wears a hearing aid, after all); nevertheless, the funny one-liners are there and the characters are colorful and ingratiating. Allen publicly commented on how surprised he was at the work involved in seeing this project through, and yet he has another film for Amazon on the way.

It 'just a small screen to bring back the great genius of Woody Allen. In recent months the US has directed and starred in, for Amazon Studios, the six episodes that make up the miniseries "Crisis in six scenes", a pure concentrate of citations and "alleniane" neuroses. Always reticent to the idea of ​​shooting a television series, Allen chose to direct a comedy of two hours and then divide it into six episodes of 20 minutes each. The result was a series of strong cinematic mold, which reached its peak in the first two episodes and in the beginning of the season finale. Actually "Crisis" does not add anything new to the filmography of Allen but reuses, in a very intelligent way, all the typical clichés of his cinema. From the inevitable cynicism that characterizes his characters, to a fine range of the soundtrack, Allen plays very safe, but his refuge in clichés is also balanced by courageous decisions as to present, in an unexpected role, the former party girl Miley Cyrus. The central part of the series suffers pace a bit 'too bland, but in many episodes the story is hilarious and punctuated. It is not the best work of Allen but, by his own admission, an amusing parenthesis to watch "all in one go" to discover the innate talent that has made one of the greatest directors of our time.

But since absolutely nothing happened in the first scene, make that 6 scenes too long. An embarrassment to all who appear. Except for Ms. Cyrus, who apparently cannot be embarrassed. Awful ending to an otherwise remarkable career. IMDb forces me to say more. Not much to say. Acting is awful. Plot is...well, in the first 1.5 episodes there was no plot. It was silly. Not smart, not well written. Embarrassing. Why is he doing this? IMHO his recent work is a failed attempt at humor and makes me think that I was right about his work after the 80s. Self- conscience and pedantic.Second attempt to post my review, which they keep saying isn't long enough. Irony is not lost on me. I'm writing a review about someone who stayed in the game too long until he sounded like he'd run out of things to say. I know the feeling.