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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/2\/25\/22948048\/the-dropout-review-hulu-elizabeth-holmes<\/a>
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes<\/a> was a subject of fascination within Silicon Valley and the tech press even before her eventual downfall and recent conviction for defrauding investors<\/a>. But Hulu\u2019s The Dropout<\/em><\/a> <\/em>is confident there are still people out there dying to know more about the woman behind the disruptive medtech unicorn that could have been.<\/p>\n

Adapted from ABC News\u2019 investigative true crime podcast<\/a> of the same name hosted by Rebecca Jarvis, and produced by Taylor Dunn and Victoria Thompson, The Dropout <\/em><\/a>chronicles Holmes\u2019 (Amanda Seyfried) journey from being just another Stanford dropout with a half-baked dream to becoming one of the most infamous American CEOs of the 21st century. <\/p>\n

Like the podcast, the new Hulu show \u2014 which Jarvis, Dunn, and Thompson co-executive produced along with series director Michael Showalter \u2014 sets out to both entertain and inform as it lays out a timeline of events beginning in Holmes\u2019 childhood and culminating in 2015 as The<\/em> Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u2019s Theranos reporting began to expose the company\u2019s troubles. Though The Dropout<\/em>\u2019s dramatization of past events pulls heavily from the podcast\u2019s reporting, the show is far more comfortable editorializing with a story that somewhat sympathetically frames Holmes not simply as a visionary-turned-fraudster, but also as a woman navigating the treacherous and broadly sexist world of multimillion-dollar tech startups.<\/p>\n

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Much like Holmes herself, The Dropout <\/em>is as focused as it is busy. Its first few episodes jump back and forth in time between various moments from Holmes\u2019 past, and in 2017 as she\u2019s being deposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of being charged in 2018<\/a>. After opening on Seyfried\u2019s nervous tick-driven Holmes at a point when the public still took the carefully-constructed idea of Elizabeth Holmes, blood wunderkind<\/a>, at face value, The Dropout<\/em> tries to make you understand how she got there by zeroing in on important chapters from her past that she carried into the future. <\/p>\n

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