Following up this summer’s Cafe Society and before he embarks on next year’s Kate Winslet-led feature, Woody Allen has directed his first-ever television show for Amazon Studios. Titled Crisis in Six Scenes, the series is made up of six episodes, each running half-an-hour, and after a first teaser clip, today brings new details and images.
Described as “a comedy that takes place in the 1960’s during turbulent times in the United States,” we follow a “middle class suburban family who is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.” Starring Allen himself, alongside Miley Cyrus, Elaine May, John Magaro, Rachel Brosnahan, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Rapaport, Margaret Ladd, Joy Behar, Rebecca Schull, David Harbour, and Christine Ebersole, the images reveal much of our cast.
Check them out below, along with more details from EW for what is a self-contained series:
Crisis focuses on a traditional suburban New York couple (Allen and Elaine May), their friend-of-the-family houseguest (John Magaro) and his fiancée (Rachel Brosnahan) who have their conservative beliefs challenged by a young hippie (Miley Cyrus) who’s caught up in the ’60s movement and inspired by radical communist leaders. It’s basically the story of people with very different backgrounds and ideas crossing paths and how someone can come in and make you question everything you’re doing.
Crisis in Six Scenes starts streaming on Amazon on September 30.