Reviews of HBO's Mia Farrow doc

Mia Farrow with her friends Roman Polanski and Joan Crawford.

 

I've seen a couple of reviews of the HBO "documentary" about Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. Most of them took it for granted that the accusation against Allen was true. They didn't seem to know anything about it. One noted that he "was never convicted" but didn't mention that he was never charged and that investigators concluded the accusations were false. 

Dylan, by the way, had until she was 22 to pursue charges against him and didn't do it. She can still sue. The burden of proof would be far lower, but she won't even do that because she knows she has no case.

But here's link to Roger Friedman's scathing review:

https://www.showbiz411.com/2021/02/17/hbo-doc-about-woody-allen-mia-farrow-ignores-mias-3-dead-kids-her-child-molester-brother-other-family-tragedies

From the article:

Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick made this series, and it’s a disappointment that they’ve been sucked into Farrow’s now almost 30 year vendetta against Woody Allen. But what you get out of it, surprisingly, is how much Mia hates Soon Yi, the girl she adopted who took up with Woody at age 18 and is still with him three decades later. Mia’s scorched Earth approach to Soon Yi should be the takeaway here. Soon Yi and Woody have been together since 1992. They have raised two daughters, now in college. And yet Mia will do anything she can to destroy Soon Yi. Mia Farrow is the most scorned lover in history. And don’t you forget it.

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The perfect Farrow family is a continuing theme throughout the four episodes. But that’s been scotched in real life by Moses, who was older than both kids when all this went down. At first Moses took Mia’s side. But then as time unfolded, he came to Woody’s side. You can read his 2018 essay here. But Moses’s adult evaluation of his family, and of the whole scandal, is just dismissed by Mia, Ronan, and Dylan. It doesn’t fit in with their modus operandi, their raison d’etre.

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Moses Farrow concluded his essay — also omitted from the series — with a note to Mia:

“I’m guessing your next step will be to launch a campaign to discredit me for speaking out. I know it comes with the territory. And it’s a burden I am willing to bear. But, after all this time, enough is enough. You and I both know the truth. And it’s time for this retribution to end.”

Before you buy into “Allen vs. Farrow” consider the sources, do the research. And take this mini series as a fictional account by a clever actress giving the performance of her life.