EPISODE 1.1
I'm in a Hurry
Elizabeth Holmes, an optimistic and determined young woman, drops out
... More of Stanford to found a promising new blood testing startup.Less
The Dropout: Miniseries
Amanda Seyfried plays Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout and founder of medical testing start-up Theranos, whose career was on a meteoric rise - and her company worth billions of dollars - when it was revealed that none of her company's medical tech actually worked. Co-stars Naveen Andrews (Sense8), William H. Macy (Bobby), Bill Irwin (Legion), and Michael Ironside (Nobody).
2022Rating: MUSASearchlight Television, Semi-Formal Productions, 20th Television
DramaTrue Story & Biography
The Dropout: Miniseries | Reviews
89%90 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Variety
It was only a matter of time before someone adapted Holmes’ story to the screen... (The Dropout) is the first -- and its canny performances, writing, and directing should set a high bar for every other version to come.
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Vulture
Delicate portraiture is where most scam shows falter and where The Dropout really pulls ahead of the competition.
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CNN
The Dropout gets under your skin, passing the "Should I watch?" test with flying colors.
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Entertainment Weekly
Things really start to move in episode 7, which must be the worst thing you can read in a TV review.
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IndieWire
Even if (The Dropout) exists more as a surface-level primer than a deep-dive, stars Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews make it compulsively watchable.
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Rolling Stone
It’s a maddening, gripping, and at times startlingly funny recreation of a story that would feel too absurd to be true if we didn’t already know otherwise.
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Independent
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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Slant Magazine
The details are strikingly unembellished, but its the perspective-shifting storytelling that brims with imagination.
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Vanity Fair
The limited series compounds both the gravity and ridiculousness of what Holmes did not achieve.
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Collider
The Dropout refuses to ever fully lock on to a clear mission statement of its own, instead dutifully plowing through the facts of the case...
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The Dropout: Miniseries | Release Details
The Dropout: Miniseries is available to stream in New Zealand now on Disney+.