WeCrashed - Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway series on Apple +

I’ve been watching them all - Inventing Anna, The Dropout, Super Pumped, etc. - I have a pretty insatiable appetite for scammers and hubristic downfall stories.

I’m only one episode in, but so far I’m enjoying it a lot more than the reviews would suggest. AnnE is really fun as the holier-than-thou bitch on wheels. and while I could see it getting repetitive, I liked watching Leto neg people and playing on their emotions to get them to buy into his dream.

Can't stand either of them.

Just starting watching this and can’t believe it wasn’t better reviewed. It’s super entertaining and Anne is crushing it as Gwyneth’s even more pretentious and out of touch cousin.

AnnE is pretty great (I'm on Episode 2). Leto is solid but that character is just so annoying (as grifters who don't take no tend to be).

You're a SUPER NOVA.

I wanted to like it but I'm finding it boring and I also can't stand Jared Leto. Hated Inventing Anna btw but am loving The Dropout and the Renee Z one.

Elevating the world's consciousness.

I'd never heard of the Neumans before this show and didn't realise Jared Leto's accent was Israeli to begin with.

I'm still not sure how WeWork got to such a high it could have a spectacular crash. I'd never heard of it before this show.

But it's an enjoyable show about some awful people. Anne Hathaway in particular makes a good job of humanising a deeply unpleasant and resentful person. The contacts are a bit distracting though.

I'm loving it

Israelis have a snake oil salesman gene.

Easily the best of the horrible rich tech grifters shows. At least for me.

That's because, at least for the first few episodes, I truly believed the two loved each other. Sure, they were insane. Megalomaniacs. Pretty horrible. But I bought that they really loved each other in a whacky, out there sort of way. And that made me understand their humanity and even root for them a little more than I did, say, Elizabeth Holmes.

If you live in NYC, you know cunts like Rebekah Neumann. They're everywhere around here. Awful, awful cunts.

Binged watched last weekend and also loved it mostly for the great acting, the characters themselves are truly bad. I lol so hard when they asked her about her teachers, her answer: "well it's only mother nature and his holiness the Dalai Lama". The pretensiousness of it all it's hilarious.

Jared Leto shows off his lovely feets in this quite often so it’s a thumbs up from me.

This is such a brutal takedown, loving it!

[quote]I think Jared is miscast

Who would you cast instead?

Jared Leto has had some excellent work done.

I hate fake nose acting but nonetheless it seems to work?

How does Jared Leto keep getting cast in things?

This is way more entertaining than the Mandy Seyfried snoozefest (although she’s very good in it).

Really digging it so far (I'm on episode 4) and think Hathaway is perfectly cast. She went to the same high school as my husband which is full of girls like Rebekah so I suspect she knows the type well.

Leto's Israeli accent is on point and he's doing a good job with Adam too--there's more of a physical resemblance there than I would have thought.

WeWork was a great idea, people who had space there really liked them, really liked working at a WeWork pre-pandemic, especially people who were new in a city and were looking for something resembling community.

Just finished and I thought it was excellent. Viewer reviews seem much higher than critical ones.

I loved it! I watched the documentary first (on Hulu), which is great background going into this.

They are truly hateful people--particularly Rebekah who is absolutely insufferable and kind of evil. (abusive to staff).

I said this on a Harry/Meghan thread: Rebekah and Adam's relationship reminds me of Harry and Megan. Rebekah is an insufferable and hypocritical SJW, who thinks vegetarianism and spouting empty liberal platitudes elevators her above mere mortals. She controls Adam by pivoting between smothering/coddling him as if he was a baby and being cold, withholding mother when he displeases her.

Jared and Anne were pitch perfect in the roles. The series tried to inject some empathy into Rebekah, but it couldn't stand up to the 99% of her that's just plain awful.

And the series is super fun and well made. I highly recommend it. But watch the documentary, too. That's equally good.

I'm R22: Also I find Rebekah's interview about WeLearn hilarious. You can see that Goop is using all of her acting skills to pretend to be interested in the crap Rebekah's spewing. I laugh each time I see a clip of it. Please, please, please don't watch the full hour interview. I don't want to torture by beloved DLs. Just skip around to a few places and look at Goop's expression. You can tell that she's mentally checked out and thinking about her grocery list or anything except for what Rebekah is saying.

oops! I'm R23. The link above isn't to the Gwyneth and Rebekah interview. I can't find it on Youtube. But if you watch the documentary you'll see a clip of it. It's hilarious.

[quote] She controls Adam by pivoting between smothering/coddling him as if he was a baby and being cold, withholding mother when he displeases her.

This is bullshit.

Adam Neuman is an independent thinker who is responsible for his own successes and failures. He has agency and is not controlled by his dreadfully unappealing wife.

Stop blaming women for things awful men do.

r23 that interview is excruciating. Rebekah is such a self-absorbed twat, she does nothing but speak in platitudes. And she's really hard on the eyes too.

Rebekah looks an awful lot like Bruce Paltrow, Gwyneth's dad. Much more so than Gwyneth herself.

The woman who reviewed it (mostly positively) in the New Yorker, who is Israeli herself, said Leto really nailed the Israeli accent.

At times I had trouble believing they could really be that “cringe,” as the youngs say. But apparently they could.

Anne Hathaway really nailed Rebekah. The superior attitude and condescending tone of voice, just behaving like she was more elevated and enlightened that other mere mortals, Hathaway was perfect.

Playing a holier than thou bitch-on-wheels isn’t exactly stretching AnnE’s acting chops.

I know nothing about Anne's personal life or why she's hated by the OCD weirdos on DL. All I know is that she's a consistently strong actress.

Anne Hathaway seems perfectly nice and decent in real life.

She’s super-earnest and energetic and neurotic which is easy to mock, but she doesn’t seem to be a mean-girl Kate Hudson/Lea Michele type.

To me, Anne Hathaway is so specific-looking that she is still Anne Hathaway to me in whatever role she is playing.

I have no other comments about her. Not a hater.

Has Sarah Silverman or David Baddiel denounced Jared Leto giving himself Jew-Face (ok, Jew-Nose) rather than casting an actual Jew?

R25 is evidently unfamiliar with the concept of “pussywhipping.”

[quote]Anne Hathaway really nailed Rebekah. The superior attitude and condescending tone of voice, just behaving like she was more elevated and enlightened that other mere mortals, Hathaway was perfect.

I did feel sorry for Rebekah because Rebekah's life was so disappointing and dissatisfied, entitled and vacuous to a point of being hollow. The scenes with America Ferrara (also very good) were great because you could see Rebekah wanting to be a good person and trying to be, but ultimately being bitter and jaded.

America Ferrera was great in this.

She was R37-- to the point where I did not realize it was her, but thought "that actor looks sort of like America Ferrera..." (and then looked up who it was on IMDb and realized why.)

As I had noted upthread, my husband grew up in the same town /went to the same high school as Hathaway--she was a few yeas older than him--and there were many girls like "Rifka" there and we both knew kids who went to the summe camp where they had the big party.

Miguel also came off very badly in the series -- a completely spineless milquetoast who seemingly did not have a life outside of work or a sex life, though Google reveals he was married and divorced during his time there. (He is also 6' 8" in real life)

I wonder how much he came away with.

r38 I'm sure Miguel never has to work a day again for the rest of his life.

Hathaway as Rebekah was such a smug, self-centered, holier-than-thou bitch you just wished somebody would've smacked her.

Really enjoyable satire, despite a miscast Leto.

The real Adam Neumann (shown in the end credits of the last episode) was much more atractive than freaky, eye-lifted, botoxed Jared Leto (and about a decade younger). And he didn't sound like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, either.

Oh, and a big thumbs up for O-T Fagbenle as Leto's primary antagonist.

Leto was wonderful in this. He got Neumann's manic personality down.

Two insufferable and pretentious hacks. How do they still have careers?

Have you ever heard Neumann on video? Leto really did manage to nail his Israeli accent.

But yes, Neumann was better looking than Leto, Rebekah was not nearly as good looking as Hathaway and Miguel was actually not a bad looking guy

Leto is better looking than Neumann

O-T Fagbenle was fantastic as the only adult in the room.

No one wants to watch Jared Leto do anything. Hathaway still out here making terrible choices.

Hathaway is in a new movie with Michaela Coel, directed by David Lowery, so that's a good call. Or at least it appears so at first glance, hopefully it doesn't end up being a turd.

I agree about Leto. I find him too creepy, I can't watch anything he's in.

I thought Leto’s eyes were makeup for the show. Holy hell, his cosmetic surgeon did a Redford on him.

That said he was very good in this, as was Anne.

Though I thought the way 2 or 3 of his Führer style rants were filmed were in poor taste given the character is Israeli, but maybe I’m being over sensitive.