Review of "WeCrashed" a WeWork story starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway
How to make a billion and fail because of your own ambition.
Start-up Adam Newman (Jared Leto) is giving away idea after idea, from kneepads for babies to folding heels. He calls himself a "serial entrepreneur" and has the art of convincing people. But investors are in no hurry to invest in dubious projects, and in the late 2000s the future billionaire just has to keep believing in his own strength. That's when he meets Miguel McKelvey (Kyle Marvin), with whom they start building WeWork piece by piece. The series sheds light on all the important moments in the history of the co-working network, while also revealing the relationship between Adam and his wife Rebecca (Anne Hathaway), an eternal inspiration and a woman left in her husband's shadow.
"WeCrashed" begins as the usual "From Rags to Riches" movie, where a man's ambition allows him to achieve unprecedented heights, and those around him, along with the audience, watch mesmerized by the knock-down charisma. The first episode is even somewhat reminiscent of The Social Network: a dynamic shot releases Adam's energy (we must say, not without the help of Jared Leto's skills) and, through the interweaving of several scenes, marks the main points of the story. But while in the beginning the attention is held by the editing and intrigue because of the fast-paced company, the closer WeWork gets to collapse, the greater the desire to finally see the climax. After all, an hour-long series revolving around the issue of rent, corporate ethics, and luring in the next investors can bore even avid business acolytes.
The focus of the series shifts time and again from colorful offices to the equally colorful figure of Rebecca Newman, whose insecurities and attempts to somehow define her own personality contrast with Adam's dithyramas in honor of her mission to improve society. Hathaway's heroine is not only the wife of the CEO of a massive firm, but also Gwyneth Paltrow's cousin. Rebecca's dream of becoming an actress fades at the same rate her husband's business does. Trying to escape from the shadow of her husband, a young woman trying on different roles - the mother, the muse and the soul of the company. But, alas, draws everyone's attention inside WeWork at the moment when on stage during a corporate party, uttered a phrase about the task of a woman to support her partner. Rebecca genuinely does not understand why she has angered the feminist crowd, and the viewer, through flashbacks to the past, sees how she has been afraid to hurt her opinion of the opposite sex all her life and, in fact, has buried deep within her own potential.
After four episodes we can say that the rise and fall of WeWork is not as interesting as it was with Facebook. The series barely keeps the viewer in suspense and does not reveal important topics concerning, for example, the common employees of the company (however, there is always hope for the second half of the series). The pulse of the show beats primarily through the love story and committed partnership of the more often outrageous but at times sympathetic Adam and Rebecca. And maybe, in the end, modern day co-workers are just an excuse to talk about people and expose their wounds.
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