I’m assuming people who HBO wanted to write about it got screeners.  Not sure on anyone else.  Only episode 1 is out widely. 

Yup. Everytime something like this comes up with Allen, I’m always wondering, “Who needed more after he left his wife to marry her adopted daughter?”

Oh man, I wish you would have said there’d be spoilers from episode 2. I only have ep 1 on my feed. I’ll still watch. I don’t mind spoilers as much as some people, but episode 1 was so compelling.

Totally, it shows a pattern. No one would be talking about this if they weren’t still taking Allen’s side.  

It’s not one of his more talked about movies (it’s truly awful,) but he had one that came out in the early aughts called Hollywood Ending where circa-2002 Debra Messing, Tea Leoni and Tiffany Amber Thiessen were all absolutely head over heels for circa-2002 Woody Allen. Technically, only the first two were in love…

The comment about “Woody Allen the steamroller” (as opposed to the public image of Allen as a neurotic) reminds me of how Orson Welles absolutely pegged him for what he always was decades ago.

This. The guy has SHOWN who he is. Ending up with a child you met when she was twelve is the creepiest goddamn thing in the world, and only a creepy creepy creep would be capable of it. That’s even leaving out the fact that he was supposed to be her goddamned father. If someone shows you who they are, believe it.

You know, the thing any rational person would do after being falsely accused of doing such things, make movies clearly about yourself where you come very, very close to doing those creepy things...

I don’t understand how anyone could believe Allen after the business with his stepdaughter.

I have NEVER understood why he is lauded as some genius auteur. I, since I was a child found him repulsive and scary. I couldn’t understand why it was believable that beautiful, very young women would date him in his movies, and why anyone thought that was a story that made sense. In my opinion, the reason why several…

Yeah, all of his films are pretty much, “They can’t get enough of me! Young, old, young, young, younger, whatever... ME, the bespectacled nebbish with attractive characteristics...”

Does the series touch on the fact that Allen tells us repeatedly, in film after film, who he is? How many movies has he made now about a young, barely legal woman getting ensnared by a creepy old man (often played by Allen himself)?

Exactly- and the vast majority of the jobs you mention are done by women and people of color and immigrants.  

Step 1: Waive the Jones Act.

What happened? Life. What a life she has had and continues to have.

A few years ago, we saw her live doing Wishful Drinking on Broadway. Two things about the wonderful performance: we sat in the front row and were anointed with glitter by Fisher; as we were leaving, some uptight old broad from the UES kept saying, loudly, “Oh, she was so beautiful—what happened? Why did she let…

I think it’s fine if everyone is aware that it’s a fling, everyone (including wife) is consenting, and ultimately, it’s all fun and games.

Yeah, look. I have a friend who is 41 yrs old. And he thinks he’s “still young” and considers me (women his age) to be “old” over 40. I noticed that he likes to date women under 25.

Your own personal experience is one thing, but when that big an age gap occurs in the workplace between coworkers, one a relative Hollywood newcomer teenager and the other a married much older experienced actor, and there are drugs and alcohol involved, that’s where I see an issue.

Ditto (well minus the drugs and alcohol). There seems to be a large divide between giving women sexual agency and 19 year olds falling victim to perverted older men. And no gray area.