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- grantss15 mei 2025Slow start but riveting viewing by the end. Elizabeth Holmes always wanted to be a billionaire. Before the age of 30, she was, due to being founder and CEO of biomedical company Theranos. Theranos promised to revolutionise healthcare through being able to run dozens of tests instantaneously on a small machine from a drop of blood. Publicly the company appeared to be delivering on that promise. However, the reality was quite different. An enthralling, engaging and edifying mini-series on the Theranos scandal of the mid/late-2010s and in particular on its founder, Elizabeth Holmes. Quite riveting viewing as the events unfold, especially once things start to unravel. It isn’t always that interesting though. The first three episodes, largely showing Holmes’s teen years, Stanford, her meeting Sunny Balwani and her setting up Theranos are okay but quite dry. It’s only once the company is in full flight and, especially, when the reality starts to diverge from the vision that things get interesting. These episodes also reveal the complexity of Holmes’s character. Initially she’s presented as driven, single-minded and quite transparent but as things progress we see other sides to her. This complexity is well portrayed by a great, highly convincing performance by Amanda Seyfried as Holmes. Stellar supporting cast – Sam Waterston, Naveen Andrews, William H Macy, Kurtwood Smith, Anne Archer, Stephen Fry, Laurie Metcalf, amongst others – doesn’t put a foot wrong. One disappointment is that the series doesn’t cover the later legal proceedings as these provide closure to the story. These were still ongoing while the series was being filmed so the outcome was not known at the time but some of this could have been included. Or a Season 2 added… If you enjoyed this I suggest you watch Alex Gibney’s documentary on the Theranos saga: ‘The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)’. This is even more enthralling than the series.
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The Dropout has 1 season.
The Dropout has 8 episodes.
The key characters in The Dropout are Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried), Sunny Balwani (Naveen Andrews), Chris Holmes (Michel Gill).
The Dropout was directed by Michael Showalter, Erica A. Watson, Francesca Gregorini.
The Dropout was produced by Amanda Seyfried, Hilary Bettis, Megan Mascena.
Het verhaal van Elizabeth Holmes de oprichter van het bloedtestbedrijf Theranos. Hoe kon 's werelds jongste zelfgemaakte vrouwelijke miljardair alles in een oogwenk verliezen? Hoe kwam het dat de vrouw, die ooit werd aangekondigd als 'de volgende Steve Jobs', strafrechtelijk werd vervolgd - waarvan ze pleitte niet schuldig te zijn - en tot 20 jaar gevangenisstraf werd veroordeeld? Hoe bracht haar technologie, die een revolutie teweeg zou brengen in de gezondheidszorg, mogelijk miljoenen patiënten in gevaar? En hoe hebben zoveel slimme mensen niet gezien dat het nep was?
The Dropout is rated 16.
The Dropout is a Drama, Biography, Mini-Series show.
The Dropout has an audience rating of 8.3 out of 10.
The Dropout episodes are 50 m long.
No, this show was canceled after 1 season.