Does Hulu’s new limited series on the life of Elizabeth Holmes add anything new to the conversation surrounding her explosive rise and epic fall? Does Amanda Seyfried capture Holmes’ uniquely awkward demeanor? Is it too soon or too little too late? On today’s episode of The Goggler Podcast, Bahir and Uma watch and review The Dropout.
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Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye?
The Dropout was created by Elizabeth Meriwether and stars Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, William H. Macy, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Michel Gill, Laurie Metcalf, and Stephen Fry.
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