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It's a--hole season on TV

Current ripped-from-the-headlines programming showcases unrepentant a**holes. Are they critiques or glorification?

Salon

How Theranos drama The Dropout gets scam and tech culture right

The limited series traces how Elizabeth Holmes built a house of cards from the foundation up, without indulging in feminist antihero refashioning

The Guardian - US

The Dropout: Amanda Seyfried explains why she did not meet with real-life Elizabeth Holmes ahead of role

‘Mean Girls’ star plays the disgraced entrepreneur in new Disney Plus series

The Independent UK

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The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

The Independent UK

The Dropout team explains why Amanda Seyfried’s makeup as Elizabeth Holmes is intentionally awful

‘It hurt a little bit to have to do such bad makeup,’ says the show’s head of makeup

The Independent UK

‘The Dropout,’ Elizabeth Holmes and Hollywood’s scammer fixation

“The Dropout” starring Amanda Seyfried on Hulu is a retelling of the wildly dishonest rise and eventual, if belated, fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech firm Theranos. In short: Theranos raised billions on the promise that it could build a small, portable device that would change medicine forever by…

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The Dropout: Amanda Seyfried explains why she did not meet with real-life Elizabeth Holmes ahead of role

‘Mean Girls’ star plays the disgraced entrepreneur in new Disney Plus series

The Independent UK

‘The Dropout’: Amanda Seyfried right on the money as the tech world’s billion-dollar swindler

Hulu’s take on the crooked Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is the best of the current wave of true-crime limited series.

Chicago Sun-Times

Invest in Hulu's potent Theranos series

The latest in an array of TV shows about great American scams may end up being the season's best

Salon

The Dropout review – another mind-blowing portrait of a great American fraudster

Yes it’s clunky at points, but Amanda Seyfried excels as one-time billionaire grifter Elizabeth Holmes – and the story is simply too jaw-dropping to pass up

The Guardian - UK

How Amanda Seyfried found her (deep) voice as Elizabeth Holmes in 'The Dropout'

Amanda Seyfried is leaning into her computer's camera for an impromptu tutorial. When it was announced that she would be playing disgraced Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes in a new Hulu limited series, most of the focus was on whether she could convincingly mimic Holmes' famous deep baritone.

Los Angeles Times

Who is in The Dropout cast on Disney+ alongside Amanda Seyfried

Elizabeth Holmes' story is being told in a new eight-part miniseries

Manchester Evening News

The Dropout review: Elizabeth Holmes drama lacks subtlety but is more viable than anything Theranos ever produced

Amanda Seyfried deftly conveys the brittleness of Holmes’s fake-it-till-you-make-it demeanour, but the series is slightly let down by foreshadowing, blunt symbolism

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The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes's sordid saga goes from trial to TV series

Hulu is presenting a limited TV series about fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes just two months after she her conviction for duping investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos

The Independent UK

The Dropout review: Elizabeth Holmes drama lacks subtlety but is more viable than anything Theranos ever produced

Amanda Seyfried deftly conveys the brittleness of Holmes’s fake-it-till-you-make-it demeanour, but the series is slightly let down by foreshadowing, blunt symbolism

The Independent UK

Amanda Seyfried reacts to an old photo of herself at the 2004 Mean Girls premiere: ‘I did not have a stylist’

Actor was 19 years old at the time of the hit film’s release

The Guardian - UK

The Dropout: this true-crime story aims for Wolf of Wall Street energy – and misses

Amanda Seyfried is surprisingly passive as convicted con artist Elizabeth Holmes in an adaptation that’s not daring enough to be a thriller and can’t decide how camp it wants to be

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Inverse

'The Dropout' review: Elizabeth Holmes drama isn't as good as the true story

Amanda Seyfried's take on Elizabeth Holmes anchors this Theranos drama. Streaming soon on Hulu, 'The Dropout' often over-dramatizes the true story, much to its detriment.

The Guardian - UK

The Dropout to Killing Eve: the seven best shows to stream this week

Amanda Seyfried stars in Disney+’s nuanced true-crime drama, while Jodie Comer returns as Villanelle for a final season of her electrifying chemistry with Sandra Oh’s Eve

Mic

Amanda Seyfried is Elizabeth Holmes, voice-drop and all

The upcoming Hulu series ‘The Dropout’ promises to make the Theranos scandal a juicy prestige drama.

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