‘WeCrashed,’ Starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, Drags Out the WeWork ‘Love Story’ to Confusing Ends: TV Review
variety.comCaroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs TV expands beyond its traditional borders and attracts talent that would otherwise typically stick to films, the troubling trend of people describing their shows as “a [x]-hour movie” refuses to die.
It’s never quite clear what they mean, but for whatever reason, this inherent snobbery about the medium of television persists from some of the most prominent people making it.
So it’s to their credit that, at this point, the creators of “WeCrashed” (i.e. Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello) haven’t described their limited series – featuring movie stars Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, no less – as an eight-hour film.
And yet, that’s exactly what the show ends up resembling most as its strong start meanders to its repetitive, inevitable end. “WeCrashed” – which premiered March 12 at SXSW before its March 18 debut on Apple TV Plus – delves into the bizarre, true story of “serial entrepreneur” Adam Neumann (Leto) leveraging his passion and ambition into the multi-billion dollar enterprise of WeWork, spending money with abandon, and subsequently losing hold of his own company once investors grew wise to his extravagant bluffs.
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