The Dropout

HULU | Release Date: March 3, 2022

6.7	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Ratings

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JLuis_001May 13, 2022

I finally caught up with the final two episodes I was missing, and I gotta say that while I found this show quite competent, it also has a lot of weaknesses that undermine a lot of what it accomplishes. Anchored by an excellent performanceI finally caught up with the final two episodes I was missing, and I gotta say that while I found this show quite competent, it also has a lot of weaknesses that undermine a lot of what it accomplishes. Anchored by an excellent performance from Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout succeeds in getting by more often than not, but it also can't help but look and feel like a cliche story that starts with a little lie and so on and so forth, but in frauds most of the time that's how it is, especially when dealing with greed and people like Elizabeth Holmes, so there's no groundbreaking twist to it. I don't dismiss it at all, mostly because of the work of its more than solid cast, but I do think it was a project that was overextended. If you don't want the long fictionalised version, I would recommend the HBO documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.… Expand

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joelgreenbergMar 12, 2022

This is being written after watching 4 of the 8 episodes - and after watching the Alex Gibney documentary, it's always a bit harder to watch a dramatization with actors playing the roles of the people who were flesh and blood only a fewThis is being written after watching 4 of the 8 episodes - and after watching the Alex Gibney documentary, it's always a bit harder to watch a dramatization with actors playing the roles of the people who were flesh and blood only a few minutes before. That said, I found the first 3 episodes compelling and I was especially pleased that Amanda Seyfried, who I've never much taken to in her past work, here lands with a weight she hasn't brought to previous work. However, the 4th episode struck me as an abrupt and unhappy shift in tone - "Old White Men" played the older guys from Walgreen's like idiots, and although the Walgreen team demonstrated a level of naïveté and were taken in by whatever charm Ms. Holmes was said to possess - whether in the doc or this dramatization, I find her transparently phony, affected and without a shred of the magnetism she is reported to have had in such abundance that she could charm millions and millions from the wealthiest, and medically uneducated people one can imagine. The writing presumes that the audience is as stupid as the characters themselves. The Alan Ruck character is particularly moronic and, sad to day, deserves everything that he will live to regret by the story's end. If the final scene is based on something real - wherein the Walgreen guys sing a song to Holmes as they celebrate their ill-fated partnership, well, that's fodder what came before. If the song is a fiction, and I don't imagine I'll ever know which is the case, best to have left it with the rest of the detritus in the lab.… Expand

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QhasiMay 27, 2022

They could have made the show half as long. The show drags for 6 episodes and they cram the best part into the final episode. The demise/ fallout could have at least been two episodes long.

All the ingredients were there. I will say it was aThey could have made the show half as long. The show drags for 6 episodes and they cram the best part into the final episode. The demise/ fallout could have at least been two episodes long.

All the ingredients were there. I will say it was a far better dramatization than the mess that was The Staircase.… Expand

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MetacriticOnurSep 25, 2022

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