Hulu Movie Review: Swiped

The new Hulu movie "Swiped" is about the career of Whitney Wolfe, who was mostly responsible for the dating apps Tinder and Bumble.

The best part of this story is the real-life battleground of betrayal, bad people, credit stealers, and backstabbers that all of us face in this world, working for companies and trying to make a living. None of this is ever easy for anyone, least of all Whitney Wolfe who, despite her genius, had to live through huge injustice and hardship before hitting it big.

Lily James stars in the lead role as Whitney Wolfe Heard, who, at only age 22, had ambitions to be a very wealthy entrepreneur in charge of her own financial destiny - the perfect workaround from working for other people. Whitney runs into several other entrepreneurs and lands a job at a new startup, attempting to create a dating app for a smartphone. Mainly through Whitney's great and innovative ideas, the new dating app "Tinder" was created.

Whitney mistakenly has an affair with a new hire who is her boss, and when she breaks up with him, an avalanche of injustice follows. Despite Whitney's proof of non-stop texting abuse on her phone, she is the one who has to leave the company, even though she is the one who created all of the best ideas for Tinder, including the name of the app. What follows seems like it was the fictional ideas of a screenwriter even though this is a true life story. After a long struggle and legal battles, Whitney started her own company with the help of a wealthy investor and was a self made billionaire in February 2021, when the company went public. Real life stories like this one can inspire anyone who has been through a bad job, or a massive injustice at work.

The Rotten Tomatoes critics giving this good movie a 37% rating are way off, with my rating a solid 85% and a recommendation for a great true-life story about struggle and triumph.