Unbearable. The race looks crazy. Focus on the birth of the 2.0 transport company, Uber, with a trip to Travis Kalanke.
Super Pumped has been airing on Canal + since Thursday, with two episodes. The series is also fully available on myCANAL. Watched episodes: 2/7
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, best known for his films (500) a day together in Inception or even in Looper and Snowden, is now back on stage thanks to a small screen. Mr. Cormen, creator and lead actor of the Apple TV + series released last year, has been cast in the role of controversial entrepreneur Travis Kalanick in Super Pumped.
For this occasion, he is accompanied by Kyle Chandler as investor Bill Garl, Uma Thurman – the founder of Skin Reviewer. Huffington PostAriana Huffington, but also Elizabeth Shu, who gives her qualities to Kalanick’s mother. His right-hand man is Babak Taft, Hank Azaria is Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Ben Feldman is Google co-founder Larry Page.
As never before, behind the scenes of Silicon Valley and its many scandals, it inspires television, in particular, start-up business leaders who have experienced a dizzying fall. Elizabeth Holmes’s trip to Disney + was recently in the midst of Adam Neumann of The Dropout, Apple TV +’s WeCrashed, and therefore now Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick to be the protagonist of the series. : Super Pumped, which airs tonight on Canal +.
Adapted from the book Super Pumped: Battle for Uber Journalist New York Times Mike Isaac, a series created by Brian Koppelman, Beth Shakter and David Levine, began in 2011 when Kalanick was looking for investors for his company, still called UberCab. This is Bill Gurley, played by the flawless Kyle Chandler, who will have a scoop.
From there, everything is connected very quickly for beginners, which is growing at an increasing speed. The rival city of taxis is conquering the United States without much hindrance from the government. From the beginning, the CEO with illusions of generosity, therefore, moves from trick to trick in order to be able to carry out his project in the world of transport to revolutionize.
Often a man who is willing to do anything to increase his profits (e.g., he introduced a security fee at Ubers not to protect women from potential aggressors but to make more money), Travis Kalanick also has a talent for embellishing the truth. Give yourself a nice role. Whatever the realization skillfully shows, it slowly erases the misleading scenes to leave the character a place alone against a green background.
Other tricks also make the series dynamic, such as the words of the protagonists appearing on screen or the voice that moviegoers recognize as… Quentin Tarantino, who explains concepts, or even deconstructive narratives and passages in video game animation. .
Interestingly for its topic, the discovery of the less pink page of the rise of such a famous company is intriguing, as well as its many excesses that led to the resignation of its CEO in 2017. Super Pumped has another asset: the performance of Joseph-Gordon Levitt. The charismatic actor has a natural charm that fits perfectly with the character he embodies, this “super agitated” boss over-spreads the culture of victory.
Between the Wolf of Wall Street and the social network – the second season of the anthology is also dedicated to Facebook – Super Pumped is a fascinating portrait of Travis Kalanick that in the long run may be disgusting to order from Uber. The future!
Source: allocine
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