Critic Reviews

A sensational blend of docudrama, heart, comedy, and drama that is one of 2022’s best miniseries.

The series is ultimately rocket-fueled by the intoxicating, larger than life personalities and performances of Leto and Hathaway.

When Leto and Hathaway are on-screen together (and that’s much of the show, whose strapline is “A Love Story Worth $47bn”) there is that special alchemy that shows like Big Little Lies and True Detective achieve.

WeCrashed isn’t perfect, but Hathaway’s performance (and Leto’s, to a lesser extent) and the fact that Adam Neumann’s at times shown to be the hustler he is sold us on wanting to watch more.

It’s a wonderful and deeply enjoyable tale of rags to riches to (relative) rags, but it panders to the viewer’s schadenfreude instead of offering anything meatier, or any wider perspective or criticism.

Altogether a compelling tale whose drama grows ever greater, not least in the final chapters packed with tension.

If nothing else, WeCrashed is a testament to just how long money — or the illusion of it — will insulate narcissists from consequences, and the slow burn of its progression makes the show all the more tantalizingly agonizing

The series fully captures the Monopoly-money quality of the startup era, the sense that nothing is quite real and certainly not relatable to most people on the planet. If this is a little sickening, it can also be wildly entertaining.

So, yes, you’ll have fun watching WeCrashed, even if the rhythms of the story are a little cliched.

The series sags in the middle episodes after an exciting start. The propulsion returns at the end, but viewers have to get there to enjoy it. ... Even if you know how the WeWork story ends, it's an enthralling ride to the inevitable implosion.