# The Dropout (2022)

> Amanda Seyfried plays Elizabeth Holmes, the Stanford dropout whose blood-testing startup Theranos was built on claims that never worked.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/101360

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 52 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Elizabeth Meriwether
- Network: Hulu
- Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, Elinor Gunn, Robert J. Chu, Jack Buckley, Dave Kumar, Piper Major, David Danipour
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10166622/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: tense, satirical, unsettling, cool, propulsive

## What critics say

Audiences broadly regard the miniseries as a well-made, gripping retelling of the Theranos saga, with Amanda Seyfried's performance as the centerpiece.

## Synopsis

The Dropout (2022) is an American true crime limited series created by Elizabeth Meriwether for Hulu. Amanda Seyfried stars as Elizabeth Holmes, the Stanford dropout who founded the medical testing startup Theranos, with Naveen Andrews as her business partner Sunny Balwani. Across eight hour-long episodes, the engine of the story is ambition colliding with reality: a young founder chasing investors, press acclaim and billions of dollars while the technology behind her blood tests quietly fails, and the people relying on those results face real harm. The show moves through boardroom pitches, secret relationships, and the mounting pressure of keeping a myth intact. It is a dramatized account of a single fraud rather than an anthology, so each episode deepens the same escalating deception. The tone is sharp and unsettling, with a cool, satirical edge that grows creepier as Seyfried's performance tightens. Its theme of charismatic fraud and Silicon Valley hype will appeal to viewers who enjoy prestige business dramas. Fans of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, WeCrashed and The Big Short will find resonance in its portrait of a visionary whose story unravels in plain sight.

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