The story WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann just keeps getting seamier.

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WeCrashed, the Apple TV+ drama about real-life startup WeWork, goes big, goes crazy and gets bitter this week.

As WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann starts trying to expand his co-working company, he decides he’s got to tear down the competition, too. Meanwhile, his wife Rebekah is having her own crisis of confidence — and it may end with her having burned every last bridge she has.

Though cheaply entertaining a few times an episode, this show suffers from an insurmountable problem: It never picked an identity. It has to believe enough in Neumann’s prowess as an entrepreneur to find his tactics interesting, while also tacitly admitting he was wrong and crazy and a huckster.

But you can’t sort of admit your hero is a bad guy, not when you keep charting his rise to success without giving you any kind of window into who he was.

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Flashbacks and a funeral propel The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey [Apple TV+ recap]

BY SCOUT TAFOYA • 12:00 PM, APRIL 1, 2022

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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey recap Apple TV+: Astounding acting makes for another compelling episode.

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey recap Astounding acting makes for another compelling episode of this touching show.

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Ptolemy starts tying up loose ends in this week’s episode of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, the Apple TV+ series based on the book of the same name by Walter Mosley.

We see reconciliation and revelations for almost everyone this week, in a finely acted and carefully directed hour of television. Ptolemy’s memories are fading, but before they do, he remembers his days as a boy. And he realizes he wants his nephews to feel protected the way he used to.

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Pachinko packs an emotional wallop [Apple TV+ recap]

BY SCOUT TAFOYA • 11:00 AM, APRIL 1, 2022

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Pachinko recap Apple TV+: This is what memorable television looks like.

This is what memorable television looks like.

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Pachinko, the epic, time-hopping Apple TV+ series about a Korean family’s struggles, hits its stride in a truly unbelievable fourth episode.

The show started strong enough, but it reaches pantheon level in this incredible installment, which sees Solomon renouncing his capitalist training, Sunja saying goodbye in the past and hello in the future, and a climactic singalong uniting people, eras and cultures.

This is the kind of thing you’re lucky to get out of serialized TV.

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Lumon’s drones plot their escape this week on Severance [Apple TV+ recap]

BY SCOUT TAFOYA • 9:00 AM, APRIL 1, 2022

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Severance recap Apple TV+: Lumon Industries doesn't know what lies ahead.

Lumon Industries doesn't know what lies ahead.

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The plan is set on this week’s episode of Apple TV+’s dark comedy thriller Severance. But will our heroes make it out of Lumon Industries? Will anyone believe Mark, How to Get Discounts on Apple Products Helly and Irving when they wake up from their regular lives and emerge their work selves?

This week’s magnificently tense episode, directed by series executive producer Ben Stiller, is a real nail-biter. It’s wonderfully edited and excellently performed.

Severance has abandoned its early crux — the depressing lives of office drones who literally have no souls because they’ve been surgically stripped of them — for a more fast-paced approach to the show’s thriller aspects.

It’s no longer a show about the drudgery of both lives lived by lost people. It’s about the race to get back some measure of its characters’ personhood.

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Spy series Slow Horses comes out of the gate fast and sarcastic [Apple TV+ recap]

BY SCOUT TAFOYA • 7:00 AM, APRIL 1, 2022

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Slow Horses recap: Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, head of a group of screwup spies in new thriller series Slow Horses.

Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, head of a group of screwup spies, in new thriller series Slow Horses.

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Slow Horses, based on the first book in the Slough House series by author Mick Herron, is the newest addition to the Apple TV+ roster of thrillers.

In the series, which premieres Friday, Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, the leader of a group of misfit spies who work cases in secret while MI5 looks down its nose at the scrubs.

Directed by James Hawes and created by Will Smith (no, not that Will Smith), the first two episodes of this oddball spy show prove reasonably diverting.

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Best monitors for Mac Studio (and other Macs) in 2022

BY D. GRIFFIN JONES • 7:08 AM, MARCH 31, 2022

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The Studio Display, Pro Display XDR, iMac 24″ and 16″ MacBook Pro.

From left to right: The 16-inch MacBook Pro, the 24-inch iMac, the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR.

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The introduction of a brand-new desktop called the Mac Studio brought new life to the Mac, and it deserves a great monitor to match. But the Mac Studio is only part of the story. You may want a desktop monitor when you’re at home with your MacBook Pro, a display for your Mac mini, or a second display for your iMac. Or, maybe you’re jumping in on the headless MacBook Pro bandwagon. What’s the best monitor for your Mac?

Apple introduced its own Studio Display alongside the Mac Studio, and it seems reasonably priced compared to Apple’s other offerings. But what does the broader market for midrange displays look like?

Here’s a display buying guide to help you find an appropriate monitor to go with your Mac.