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‘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.

Tribune News Service · Mar 3, 2022

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 · Mar 3, 2022

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 · Mar 2, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2022

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

Evening Standard · Feb 25, 2022

'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.

Inverse · Feb 25, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2022

Bossing it: why the women of big tech are taking over the small screen

The Tech Bro has become Hollywood’s go-to villain. Now, TV is finally grappling with Silicon Valley’s complex female entrepreneurs

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2022

What we learn from Anna Delvey: scams are all the rage for Generation Hustle

A wave of TV shows such as Inventing Anna are sympathetic portrayals of the con artist that lies within us all, says journalist Laura Martin

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2022

Review: 'Inventing Anna's' greatest failure: It's as shallow as its subject

From "Fyre Fraud" to "The Tinder Swindler," con artists and their schemes have provided an endless font of material for television docuseries. No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. But in the spirit of fixing something that's…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 11, 2022