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The Dropout: Full release schedule for Elizabeth Holmes drama on Disney Plus

First three episodes arrived on Disney Plus on Friday 4 March

The Independent UK

Obsessing over Elizabeth Holmes' voice

Holmes’ supposed attempt to alter her voice is part of a broader cultural fixation on the way women speak and sound

Salon

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

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

The Independent UK

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‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost

He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything

The Guardian - 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

Elizabeth Holmes' wild trial almost remade 'The Dropout.' Here's why it was left out

LOS ANGELES — Liz Meriwether, the creator of "New Girl" and "Single Parents," became fascinated with Elizabeth Holmes in 2019, much like the rest of us. She remembers being drawn in by a Vanity Fair piece that detailed the Silicon Valley wunderkind's final months at her biotech company, Theranos, which…

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

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What's behind the obsession over whether Elizabeth Holmes intentionally lowered her voice?

There is a scene in Hulu’s new series, “The Dropout,” where Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, wearing a white blouse, stands in front of a mirror and practices saying, “This is an inspiring step forward.” With each iteration, her voice deepens.

Tribune News Service

‘The Dropout’ traces fraudster Elizabeth Holmes’ spectacular fall as Theranos founder

The fall of Theranos was almost as spectacular as the tech startup’s rise, but “The Dropout” is more concerned with how founder Elizabeth Holmes got there in the first place.

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

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

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The Guardian - AU

Halo, Moon Knight and more Bridgerton: what’s new to streaming in Australia in March

Plus a Tiger King dramatisation, a comedy musical about buying property in Australia and a Ben Affleck erotic thriller

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes case: Bail tightened for Theranos fraudster as she awaits sentencing

The federal court judge set to sentence convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in September ordered Tuesday that she put up property worth $500,000 to help ensure she will not flee to avoid an expected multi-year prison sentence.

Tribune News Service

What to stream: New drama series retell Joe Exotic, Elizabeth Holmes stories

There’s an interesting content pipeline happening right now, as viral articles, podcasts and documentaries are turned into various series with movie stars stepping into these fictionalized adaptations of splashy true-life scandals. That trend reaches boiling point this spring, with several of these limited series dropping within a few months of…

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 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

Evening Standard

The Dropout review: Amanda Seyfried’s Elizabeth Holmes is pitiful, never pitiable

The moral of this Silicon Valley morality tale? Don’t run a company based on a cod-philosophical slogan printed on a paperweight

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.

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