![]() That there were employees and investors and people that really got hurt by the fallout. Our job, we thought, was to balance that with the fact that there was collateral damage in this story. “We learned about his childhood and some of the things that went into making him the person he was. “The more we learned about Adam, you can't help but empathize,” says Crevello. WeCrashed creators and showrunners Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello knew that the best way to make sure WeWork's Adam Neumann didn’t feel like a parody was to simply do their job as writers. It gets really dark, but I don't think it starts out in that spot.” “It was important to me that it wasn't presented purely as this dark, dark, dark story. (Meriweather created the network comedies New Girl, Single Parents, and Bless This Mess.) It helped to approach the beginning of the story as that of a young woman trying to start a company, Meriweather says. The first several episodes of The Dropout, which follow the early life of Elizabeth Holmes as a teenager, her brief time at Stanford, and the early days of Theranos, have a light, comedic tone that creator and showrunner Elizabeth Meriweather “knew was going to be challenging,” especially coming from a comedy-writing background. Thrillist spoke to actors and showrunners from Inventing Anna, The Dropout, and WeCrashed about creating these characters and their voices in an authentic way that didn’t cross that fine line.Įnsuring these characters come across as human beings started with the writing. Recency adds additional pressure: All three of these scammer stories unfolded in the mid to late 2010s, with podcasts and books, YouTube videos, or documentaries about each readily available. On top of that, these scammers are (albeit on very different levels) morally corrupt people who lied, schemed, and in some cases, committed real crimes to get what they wanted. For these performances, the line between perfection and impression is thin, particularly when it comes to their accents. Each has a unique accent (or voice) plus a depth and darkness beyond their shiny public facades. Friday, March 18 marks the beginning of the end of Scammer Season with the premiere of WeCrashed on Apple TV+, which charts the co-working space WeWork's financial mismanagement at the hands of founder and CEO Adam Neumann.ĭelvey, Holmes, and Neumann are big, polarizing personalities. A few weeks later, on March 3, Hulu dropped (sorry) the first three episodes of The Dropout, following the rise and fall of Theranos and its founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. It’s Scammer Season, baby! This three-month period in 2022-in which a trio of unrelated limited series about prominent 2010s scammers premiered within two months of each other-started with the arrival of Netflix’s Inventing Anna from Shonda Rhimes on February 11 telling the true story of Anna Delvey (or is it Sorokin?).
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