WECRASHED
[TV]
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★★★
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SHOWRUNNERS Lee Eisenberg, Drew Crevello
CAST Jared Leto, Anne Hathaway, Kyle Marvin, America Ferrera
PLOT Adam Neumann (Leto) is an entrepreneur going nowhere when he meets wealthy yoga instructor Rebekah (Hathaway). With her support, Neumann co-founds the office-space company WeWork, at one point valued at $47 billion. But Neumann’s lavish lifestyle and unconventional approach soon threaten to bring the company down.
STORIES ABOUT THE rise-and-fall of start-up businesses have been experiencing their own bubble lately: this year alone has seen Inventing Anna, The Dropout and the forthcoming Bad Blood. WeCrashed, thankfully, isn’t a sign of any stock-market implosion, but it does hint at the limits of where this in-vogue subgenre can go.