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The Dropout

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Generally favorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Ratings

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The Dropout

Series Details & Credits

HULU | Release Date: March 3, 2022

Summary: The eight-part series based on the podcast from ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis tells the story of the rise and fall of Theranos and its CEO Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried).

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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S1:E8. Lizzy
Air Date: April 7, 2022
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S1:E7. Heroes
Air Date: March 31, 2022
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S1:E6. Iron Sisters
Air Date: March 24, 2022

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75

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23

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Critic Reviews

100

Salon

Melanie McFarland

Mar 4, 2022

Season 1 Review: "The Dropout" will be tough to top, or even match, because of the way Seyfried, along with Meriwether and her writers, marry the visible facets of Holmes' put-on with her skewed ethical paradigm. ... ["The Dropout" makes] a person appreciate the scope of crime – and, better still, the extraordinary pleasure of watching Seyfried and the rest of the actors recreate this case with genuine confidence. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Roeper

Mar 4, 2022

Season 1 Review: The artistry of “The Dropout” is that while it never makes excuses for Holmes and shines a harsh spotlight on her bizarre behavior and sociopathic-level lack of empathy, we see her as a three-dimensional human being who had unlimited potential and probably WOULD have achieved something great had she listened to those who were trying to get her to slow down and do things the right way. Read full review

80

Variety

Caroline Framke

Feb 25, 2022

Season 1 Review: “The Dropout” succeeds where “Inventing Anna” doesn’t, creating a sharp portrait of an unnerving woman that doesn’t excuse her actions, but makes them at least more understandable (as in more easily understood, not more “relatable”). Read full review

80

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Mar 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: Compelling. ... Amanda Seyfried humanizes this enigmatic faux visionary by capturing her eerie intensity and drive. [14 - 27 Mar 2022, p.6] Read full review

70

Primetimer

Aaron Barnhart

Mar 3, 2022

Season 1 Review: To some degree The Dropout is just a re-enactment of the public record — re-enactments of Elizabeth’s court deposition do a lot of the series’ expositional heavy lifting — but there is something strangely compelling about watching an actor portraying the purveyor of this audacious corporate fraud. Read full review

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i Emily Baker

Mar 3, 2022

Season 1 Review: On paper, Holmes’ story of unbridled ambition at any cost is shocking and makes for delicious gossip. But the excitement doesn’t translate on screen, and the episodes are dragged down with dawdling dialogue. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle

Carla Meyer

Feb 25, 2022

Season 1 Review: The show’s more serious elements hit their targets far more often than its attempts at humor. So why bother with the comedy? Perhaps to make the real story less depressing. Read full review

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Qhasi

May 27, 2022

They could have made the show half as long. The show drags for 6 episodes and they cram the best part into the final episode. The demise/ fallout could have at least been two episodes long.

All the ingredients were there. I will say it was a far better dramatization than the mess that wasThey could have made the show half as long. The show drags for 6 episodes and they cram the best part into the final episode. The demise/ fallout could have at least been two episodes long.

All the ingredients were there. I will say it was a far better dramatization than the mess that was The Staircase.… Expand

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MetacriticOnur

Sep 25, 2022

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JLuis_001

May 13, 2022

I finally caught up with the final two episodes I was missing, and I gotta say that while I found this show quite competent, it also has a lot of weaknesses that undermine a lot of what it accomplishes. Anchored by an excellent performance from Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout succeeds inI finally caught up with the final two episodes I was missing, and I gotta say that while I found this show quite competent, it also has a lot of weaknesses that undermine a lot of what it accomplishes. Anchored by an excellent performance from Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout succeeds in getting by more often than not, but it also can't help but look and feel like a cliche story that starts with a little lie and so on and so forth, but in frauds most of the time that's how it is, especially when dealing with greed and people like Elizabeth Holmes, so there's no groundbreaking twist to it. I don't dismiss it at all, mostly because of the work of its more than solid cast, but I do think it was a project that was overextended. If you don't want the long fictionalised version, I would recommend the HBO documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.… Expand

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joelgreenberg

Mar 12, 2022

This is being written after watching 4 of the 8 episodes - and after watching the Alex Gibney documentary, it's always a bit harder to watch a dramatization with actors playing the roles of the people who were flesh and blood only a few minutes before. That said, I found the first 3 episodesThis is being written after watching 4 of the 8 episodes - and after watching the Alex Gibney documentary, it's always a bit harder to watch a dramatization with actors playing the roles of the people who were flesh and blood only a few minutes before. That said, I found the first 3 episodes compelling and I was especially pleased that Amanda Seyfried, who I've never much taken to in her past work, here lands with a weight she hasn't brought to previous work. However, the 4th episode struck me as an abrupt and unhappy shift in tone - "Old White Men" played the older guys from Walgreen's like idiots, and although the Walgreen team demonstrated a level of naïveté and were taken in by whatever charm Ms. Holmes was said to possess - whether in the doc or this dramatization, I find her transparently phony, affected and without a shred of the magnetism she is reported to have had in such abundance that she could charm millions and millions from the wealthiest, and medically uneducated people one can imagine. The writing presumes that the audience is as stupid as the characters themselves. The Alan Ruck character is particularly moronic and, sad to day, deserves everything that he will live to regret by the story's end. If the final scene is based on something real - wherein the Walgreen guys sing a song to Holmes as they celebrate their ill-fated partnership, well, that's fodder what came before. If the song is a fiction, and I don't imagine I'll ever know which is the case, best to have left it with the rest of the detritus in the lab.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 3, 2022
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  S1:E8. Lizzy
  Air Date: April 7, 2022
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  S1:E7. Heroes
  Air Date: March 31, 2022
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  S1:E6. Iron Sisters
  Air Date: March 24, 2022
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  S1:E5. Flower of Life
  Air Date: March 17, 2022
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  S1:E4. Old White Men
  Air Date: March 10, 2022
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  Air Date: March 3, 2022
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  Air Date: March 3, 2022
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  S1:E1. I'm in a Hurry
  Air Date: March 3, 2022