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Critic Reviews
Mar 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
"The Dropout" will be tough to top, or even match, because of the way Seyfried, along with Meriwether and her writers, marry the visible facets of Holmes' put-on with her skewed ethical paradigm. ... ["The Dropout" makes] a person appreciate the scope of crime – and, better still, the extraordinary pleasure of watching Seyfried and the rest of the actors recreate this case with genuine confidence.
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The PlaylistMar 2, 2022
The Daily BeastMar 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
You get a sense of who Holmes was, what drove her ambition and, ultimately, the desperation behind her foolish delusion that she had to stay the course, even as things careened out of control. Yet the series never lionizes her or glorifies her actions—tempting given the scale and implausibility of what she pulled off for as long as she did. ... [The Dropout] gives us something much more valuable, something that Theranos hoped to achieve itself: A new, better way of doing things.
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Mar 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The artistry of “The Dropout” is that while it never makes excuses for Holmes and shines a harsh spotlight on her bizarre behavior and sociopathic-level lack of empathy, we see her as a three-dimensional human being who had unlimited potential and probably WOULD have achieved something great had she listened to those who were trying to get her to slow down and do things the right way.
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Mar 2, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Employing a deftly selected soundtrack of early-to-mid-aughts bangers to bring home the cultural specificity of her rise and fall, the limited series compounds both the gravity and ridiculousness of what Holmes did not achieve. Seyfried finds Holmes’s awkward, serious, entrepreneurship-driven persona not only in her verbal oddities, but also in her physicality. ... The interpretation is as important as the details of Holmes’s story.
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Mar 2, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Boasting an inordinately good cast in even relatively minor roles, the series adopts an unexpectedly sympathetic posture toward Holmes, at least in the early going, as she seized on the idea of improving the blood-testing process before dropping out of Stanford to pursue her vision.
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Mar 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Seyfried, who was Oscar-nominated for "Mank" last year, is just as revelatory here, but strictly as an actress, not as a window into the phenomenon of Holmes. The portrayal is absorbing, committed and morbidly fascinating. ... Whether Holmes was an enchantress remains mysterious, though she certainly represents the kind of millennial con artistry that's in vogue right now.
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Feb 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Sure, there’s nothing here you couldn’t have gotten from the two-hour Gibney documentary. But the Gibney documentary doesn’t have an award-worthy performance from Seyfried, and it doesn’t have the pleasures of these little acting victories from Metcalf, from Smith, from Kate Burton, from Michael Ironside, from Elizabeth Marvel, from Michaela Watkins. And more.
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ColliderFeb 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Of course, a story this salacious and juicy was going to get the prestige miniseries treatment. And the good news is, even if it never develops into a more intriguing whole, The Dropout is made of up enough solid components — whether it’s the early trials and tribulations of the well-meaning lab workers or the corporate-thriller turn that the story eventually takes — that anyone watching should be able to find something that appeals to them.
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Mar 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
To some degree The Dropout is just a re-enactment of the public record — re-enactments of Elizabeth’s court deposition do a lot of the series’ expositional heavy lifting — but there is something strangely compelling about watching an actor portraying the purveyor of this audacious corporate fraud.
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Mar 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
We’re going to stick with The Dropout because of Seyfried’s pitch-perfect performance as Holmes as well as the myriad guest actor performances that are already looking promising by the end of the first episode. We just hope that the show doesn’t continue to make Holmes the hero of her own story.
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