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Critic Reviews
Sep 26, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Allen brings the whole TV-series self-consciousness bit home in the final minutes of the last episode, but he needn’t have worried. The fact that he hasn’t spent the past half-century trying to remake “My Mother the Car” enables him to simply adapt what he does best for the so-called small screen. And it’s a good fit. The performances are winning, with wonderful cameo contributions.
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Sep 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
This isn’t Allen at his wittiest or wildest--his career is almost by definition a thing of peaks and valleys, and he can be satisfying and frustrating within a single film. But he has a voice, and he has not yet lost it. Anyone susceptible to that sensibility will find many familiar pleasures here.
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Sep 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Some skillfully deployed, binge-enabling cliff-hangers notwithstanding, there’s not much here to differentiate Crisis In Six Scenes from any other late-period Allen trifle, slurped down in under 90 minutes and forgotten until the next round of cryptic casting announcements.
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Sep 30, 2016
Sep 30, 2016
Season 1 Review:
A lot of the qualities that still make Allen’s movies worth watching--especially his gift for crowding a bunch of actors into the frame and giving all of them something interesting to do--are present in Crisis in Six Scenes’ final episode. But the road to get there is so needlessly long, and so pointlessly convoluted, that many viewers will be forgiven for having abandoned it long ago.
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Sep 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Allen’s decampment to television does not really feel like television; although Crisis in Six Scenes is in six episodes, there is little to distinguish it from an overlong Allen film. The episodes do not stand alone, and serialization does not add anything of note to the story.
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Sep 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
An overly jokey screenplay that lacks the sharpness of Allen’s best work. And the problem is also Allen, who has largely stopped acting in his own movies. As Sidney, he can be lovably doddering and still delivers the occasional quip with style. But more often, he’s the least compelling character on screen.
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Sep 28, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Throughout, there are amusing character bits happening on the sidelines, particularly in the glimpses of Kay’s therapy practice (Lewis Black and Becky Ann Baker shine as a disgruntled couple that can’t agree on anything except guacamole), and a book club that includes Joy Behar. But none of this craftsmanship adds up to much when the material is as quarter-baked as it is here.
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Sep 26, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Crisis in Six Scenes isn't very good. It's compelling in very infrequent, late-episode snippets and stacks up poorly against a plethora of current, artistically ambitious half-hours like FX's Louie, Atlanta, Better Things and You're the Worst; Amazon's own Transparent, Catastrophe, Fleabag and One Mississippi; and Netflix's Master of None, Hulu's Casual and Starz's The Girlfriend Experience.
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Sep 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Getting any mileage out of Miley and her Bernardine Dohrn-with-a-husky-voice character proves unrewarding. Most of Crisis is spent listening to Sidney and Kay dither about hearing aids, Freudian analyses, and one-liners that sound dusted off from Allen’s decades-old standup act.
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