The Dropout was a successful podcast about Elizabeth Holmes’s rise and fall. Hulu has now turned it into a streaming series starring Amanda Seyfried. But is it any good? Lauren Chens tells you what she thinks of it so far.
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When she was 19, Holmes founded a company called Theranos and rocketed to massive success. Yet the technology her company was supposedly producing did not work. And early this year a jury found her guilty of fraud. So how did she get away with fooling so many people for so long? In short, it was because she pretended to be exactly what the ruling class so desperately wants: a female STEM genius.
If you aren’t familiar with Holmes’s story, don’t worry, Chen gives you more info in her review of The Dropout. So click that play button and give it a watch.
