| “The Andrew Yang Show” dissects what propelled the candidate to the top of New York City’s mayoral race—and what brought him down.  Andrew Yang has undergone a career’s worth of transformations in just a few years as a political figure. During the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary, he was a quirky outsider championing a novel idea, universal basic income. As a candidate for mayor of New York City, he was a well-known front-runner attempting to appeal to a wide coalition of voters. And now, having lost both races, he is working to form a centrist third party in his image. Along the way, Yang has cultivated a charismatic political identity that inspires strong responses from supporters and critics alike. In the incisive new film “The Andrew Yang Show,” a part of the New Yorker Documentary series, Sara Joe Wolansky and Gareth Smit follow Yang’s mayoral campaign as it is challenged by the pandemic, the rise of violence against Asian Americans, the emergence of crime as a central issue in the race, and, ultimately, the candidate’s own missteps. “Our hope was to capture the visceral feeling of what it was like to be him both at his highest and at his lowest,” Wolansky says. “How did his psychology and temperament transform as polls went up and down?” —Ian Crouch, newsletter editor Watch the new documentary “The Andrew Yang Show” here. | 
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