Don't Forget Amazon's Crisis

Yesterday was the premiere of Amazon's new Woody Allen series Crisis in Six Scenes.  As with all of these Amazon series, you can sample or see them all in one sitting.  In this case, you only have six stories to watch (hence, the name of the new show). 

Here is a sample to get you started.  This is all Amazon will share about this series:

This 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. 

The presence of Black Panthers, discussions about pig's blood, and statement "we can build on guacamole" in the preview gives you a good idea about the period and predicaments that Woody Allen is so good at mining.  

Of course, it might help if Allen believed in the series himself.  For example, in a May Los Angeles Times story he defined his Amazon show in this way:

It was a catastrophic mistake...I don't know what I'm doing. I'm floundering. I expect this to be a cosmic embarrassment.

Brian Lowry at CNN tends to agree, calling the new series a "...a tired comedy that feels entirely phoned in, as if pieced together from snippets of Allen's old movies."  

Ouch!