Woody Allen has shared the trailer for his first venture into television, Crisis in Six Scenes.
The late Sixties-based comedy stars Allen as a television writer and Elaine May as his psychiatrist wife, a couple whose existence gets turned upside down by the arrival of a counterculture-minded guest played by Miley Cyrus. I dont dislike you. just everything that you stand for, Cyrus character tells Allen.
In the span of the two-minute trailer, Allen and Mays characters go from being protest-adverse Im allergic to tear gas, Allen quips to hanging out with Black Panthers and plotting bra burnings and draft board demonstrations. Gods gonna punish us for this, a disguised Allen says before a criminal act. May responds, Gods not gonna punish you, youre an atheist. But if Im wrong, were in big trouble, Allen says.
Crisis in Six Scenes, written and directed by Allen, premieres on Amazon Video on September 30th.