Television, this spring, has been full of stories of real-life people struggling against the petty matters of their respective realities and reinventing themselves as heroic figures. On “The Dropou…
). She’s a part of the story of the company’s eventual implosion, but he certainly was at the heart of the news coverage. And yet the clever thing about “WeCrashed” — a show that dropped its final episode on April 22, and one that works vastly better than it might have — is that it turns its story less into a double act than into Rebekah’s show. It’s Adam who had the genius for convincing people to believe in his fantasy.
As written, the series favors Rebekah — which is to say that it filets her. Adam is just an oddball, but Rebekah is a worthy object of study. A New Age thinker who applied to her husband’s office-space company a mission of transformative change, Rebekah didn’t bring down the company, but she did bring it plenty of attention before the end times.
And it’s easier to simply operate in the backchannel: One of the cleverest parts of Hathaway’s performance is the breezily conspiratorial tone she takes with WeWork’s human resources department whenever an employee hasn’t seen reality precisely the way she wants it to be seen. “Bad energy,” she tells the H.R.