Apple TV+’s new eight-part series charts the rise and “partial fall” of WeWork, the office space company that was once valued at $47bn, said Nick Hilton in The Independent. As the title rather gives away, the company came crashing down – though it still exists, but without its founder and original CEO, the charismatic Israeli ex-naval officer Adam Neumann. Neumann is played here with “mesmeric zealotry” by Jared Leto, while Anne Hathaway stars as his wife Rebekah, who seems to have matched him “pound-for-pound” in the ego stakes. For all the talk of rental leases and IPOs, the Neumanns’ “oddly sympathetic love story” is the focus of the drama – which is just as well, as WeWork’s story isn’t as exciting as, say, that of Facebook or Theranos.
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