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Theranos Circles The Wagons On 'The Dropout': Ep. 7

The penultimate episode is filled with people who don't want to hear the truth.

The Street

'You hurt people!' How 'The Dropout' stuck the landing on Elizabeth Holmes' downfall

"Do you really believe that?"

Los Angeles Times

Just Gonna Say It: Even Conwomen Like Elizabeth Holmes Can’t Weasel Out Of Sexism

It’s 2022 and I’m obsessed with scammers. I’ve been obsessed with scammers since Caroline Calloway popped up on my Instagram and I became obsessed with her rose-tinted, romanticized Cambridge University life. Now, my obsession with scammers has moved on and I’ve admittedly spent the last few months binging shows like Inventing…

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Trial begins for ex-Theranos exec Sunny Balwani

Balwani's trial began this week, with just a sliver of the attention as was afforded to the more public-facing Holmes.

Axios

Noose Tightens as Plot Heats Up on The Dropout: Ep. 6

The Theranos Founder is at the height of her fame, but the truth is starting to come out

The Street

How scammers and con artists became TV's laziest way to hook viewers

Once upon a time, if Hollywood told the story of your life, it was because you did something inspiring: ending British rule in India; writing one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 20th century; being, like, really good at math.

Los Angeles Times

Theranos deputy's fraud trial opens in Silicon Valley

San José (United States) (AFP) - A top aide and ex-boyfriend of fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes went on trial Tuesday in California, with prosecution and defense clashing on allegations Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani helped perpetrate massive fraud at the startup.

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Elizabeth Holmes set for prison: Why Hollywood can’t get enough of Silicon Valley stories

The jaw-dropping stories of Silicon Valley’s biggest successes - and biggest failures - make for thrilling TV

Evening Standard

Sunny Balwani’s Theranos trial delayed after possible Covid exposure

Ex-executive faces same charges as his former romantic and business partner in Silicon Valley scandal

The Guardian - US

US small-screen series explore the drama of startups

New York (AFP) - As the founders of massive startups like Theranos, WeWork and Uber fall from grace, their failures have proven rich territory for television series.

AFP

It's a--hole season on TV

Current ripped-from-the-headlines programming showcases unrepentant a**holes. Are they critiques or glorification?

Salon

How Theranos drama The Dropout gets scam and tech culture right

The limited series traces how Elizabeth Holmes built a house of cards from the foundation up, without indulging in feminist antihero refashioning

The Guardian - US

Sunny Balwani trial starts two months after Elizabeth Holmes’s guilty verdict

Businessman who served as Theranos’s co-president accused of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors

The Guardian - US

Elizabeth Holmes may have a secret way to reduce sentence

The Theranos founder heaped much of the blame for the company’s scandalous downfall on her former partner Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, whose own fraud trial begins this week

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The Independent UK

The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

The Guardian - UK

‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost

He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

Chicago Tribune

‘The Dropout,’ Elizabeth Holmes and Hollywood’s scammer fixation

“The Dropout” starring Amanda Seyfried on Hulu is a retelling of the wildly dishonest rise and eventual, if belated, fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech firm Theranos. In short: Theranos raised billions on the promise that it could build a small, portable device that would change medicine forever by…

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Dropout’: Amanda Seyfried right on the money as the tech world’s billion-dollar swindler

Hulu’s take on the crooked Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is the best of the current wave of true-crime limited series.

Salon

Invest in Hulu's potent Theranos series

The latest in an array of TV shows about great American scams may end up being the season's best

Los Angeles Times

Elizabeth Holmes' wild trial almost remade 'The Dropout.' Here's why it was left out

LOS ANGELES — Liz Meriwether, the creator of "New Girl" and "Single Parents," became fascinated with Elizabeth Holmes in 2019, much like the rest of us. She remembers being drawn in by a Vanity Fair piece that detailed the Silicon Valley wunderkind's final months at her biotech company, Theranos, which…

Manchester Evening News

Who is in The Dropout cast on Disney+ alongside Amanda Seyfried

Elizabeth Holmes' story is being told in a new eight-part miniseries

The Conversation

What's behind the obsession over whether Elizabeth Holmes intentionally lowered her voice?

There is a scene in Hulu’s new series, “The Dropout,” where Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, wearing a white blouse, stands in front of a mirror and practices saying, “This is an inspiring step forward.” With each iteration, her voice deepens.

Tribune News Service

‘The Dropout’ traces fraudster Elizabeth Holmes’ spectacular fall as Theranos founder

The fall of Theranos was almost as spectacular as the tech startup’s rise, but “The Dropout” is more concerned with how founder Elizabeth Holmes got there in the first place.

The Independent UK

The Dropout review: Elizabeth Holmes drama lacks subtlety but is more viable than anything Theranos ever produced

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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