Another failed entrepreneur…
The least that can be said is that biographical fiction devoted to ambitious entrepreneurs (or enterprising) who have not “got stuck” in the flowers of the carpet of ethics has the wind in its sails this winter. television. After the Russian scammerInventing AnnaTheranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, now behind bars at The Dropoutand angry ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in Super Pumpedit’s the turn of Adam Neumann and his wife Rebecca, at the origin of WeWork, a company of shared workspaces of which they lost the reins in 2019, to be the subject of a miniseries recounting their rise and then their inexorable fall.
As in all the cases cited, this production produced by the duo Requa-Ficarra (I Love You Phillip Morris) is an adaptation of a journalistic investigation, here a podcast that tells the story of big money and love of this couple of ambitious narcissists, played by Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. A belated critical embargo prevents us from advancing on the qualities and weaknesses of this other fictionalized portrait of power-hungry people who have burned their wings through their own fault. That said, the formula, even served in an original case and with the best ingredients, is beginning to have had its day…
WeCrashed: Fall of an Empire
AppleTV+, from March 18
The feminist revolution, in a sexy coating
The premise of this comedy set in the 1970s, while quite wacky, may give the impression that it may be inspired by real events, but it seems that it is not. minx tells the story of the improbable partnership between a young feminist who wants to revolutionize the women’s magazine market, far too old-fashioned and beige for her taste, by launching a publication with a political and demanding flavor, and a publisher of low-level pornographic magazines, archetype of the libidinous “uncle”.
Together, they will launch the first erotic magazine for women, with shots of naked Adonis, to better attract the desired readership and shake things up a bit. The few excerpts that we were able to catch of this novelty which mixes sex, politics and organized crime suggest that it turns out to be less caricatural than it seems.
minx
Crave, from March 17
Revisiting the past and changing the future
Comedian and comedian Amy Schumer would have been inspired by events in her own life to create this comedy-drama in which she stars and which she also directed. In Life & Betha television project developed for the Hulu platform (which Disney+ relays elsewhere than in the United States), she embodies a thirty-year-old who leads an existence that many would describe as successful, with her job as a wine negotiator, her beautiful apartment and her husband. adequate.
But the proverbial event that will turn everything upside down will make her return to the fold and to her visibly painful family past, to find meaning in her life, and perhaps love. It all seems telegraphed and predictable. The rather favorable American critical echoes lead one to believe that Schumer is doing this with a certain subtlety, with assumed dramatic accents. We can not wait to see the result.
Life & Beth
Disney+, from March 18