The actress embodies depth the fallen leader of the medical start-up, without overwling the duplicity.
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A few weeks after posting on Apple TV + of Wecrashed, The Dropout confirms the appetite of series producers for the subject, very contemporary, turbulence that shook the economy 2.0 in recent years.
The creator of this new series produced by Hulu, Elizabeth Meriwether, could come from the world of comedy (we owe him very cults New Girl and Sex Friends), it is with a serious sharpening that she uses to unravel the sons of the Theranos case. The scenario of The Dropout is inspired by the eponymous podcast produced by ABC News, which, in line with the major investigative podcasts at the Serial, trained 2019 the setbacks of a medical start-up based by a Stanford student. 19 years old, Elizabeth Holmes.
richly documented, the ABC podcast serves as a basis for a “file” miniserman, in the continuation of Dopesick and the great American investigation stories; The interest of The Dropout is that it far exceeds this program by moving from the personality of Elizabeth Holmes a thick mystery, a form of sociopathy that is reminiscent of the way David Fincher filmed Jesse Eisenberg in the Role of Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network, 2010).
The Dropout is the story of a supercropare that finds its origin in a sick ego, that of a brilliant student in persuaded science for having had the idea that will make it the “Next Steve Jobs”, As the magazine Inc. be titled in 2015. The idea, a case for practicing a medical analysis battery with a simple drop of blood, never succeeds. This will not prevent the founder of Theranos from continuing to raise funds with investors seduced by this visionary and terrified young woman to the idea of being rooted or, worse, replaced.
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In the opposite of WECRASHED or, in the same kind, of Inventing Anna, two series that readily bind the failures of their hero to the tares of capitalism, The Dropout rarely seeks to justify the flight forward of his heroin: On the contrary, the series makes Elizabeth Holmes the product of its own neuroses coupled with ambivalence from a time when the value is measured by economic success. Without ever damaging itself in the sordid contemplation of its fall, The Dropout focuses on understanding what animates its main character.
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