Limited Series – The Dropout

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R. F @RT41167530 Jul 22 Look the story is riveting, makes you want to binge watch Season 1 but the casting really took me out of it. I found it hard to believe the lead actress as an 18 or 19 year-old just starting college. To me, she looks significantly older than the character she's supposed to portray, which made the role feel unconvincing and a bit distracting. In fact she looks too old to even play a 30 year old. She looks used, like someone over 40. See more Dave N @Cymbeline Jul 17 Well acted and nicely made, but it didn't grip me and the story is so dragged out. The first 4 episodes are boring, and I almost stopped watching several times, but was curious enough to keep going. Then episodes 5 and 6 get more interesting, but the whole thing would have been told far better in 3 or 4 episodes. And I guess the main takeaway from it was that Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani are really horrible people, and that didn't seem enough to justify so many hours of viewing. See more Nalaya C @Nalaya Jan 13 Amanda Seyfried really mastered the embodiment of Elizabeth Holmes. Her facial expressions, her body posture, her voice, the tension in her smile, all of it. These kinds of real life enactment shows are my absolute favourite. Especially when it's a mind blowing story like this one. It's so fascinating to get a glimpse of what actually went down. It was truly brilliantly done! See more Dr M @RT56667350 Oct 30 As a Jewish person, my only criticism of the entire season is episode 4 should have been called “old Jewish men” instead of “old white men” See more Claire M @RT01732244 Sep 18 Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews gave amazing performances in a true story demonstrating that when big money and a charismatic sociopath are involved people often don't bother doing their due diligence. The moral to the story is: When people's lives are at stake no corners should be cut. The Dropout is one of the rare times when a limited series is as good as the book. See more Rob A @RT76386004 03/12/2025 Captivating miniseries about the true story of Elizabeth Holmes, Sunny Balwani and Theranos, a fraudulent medical device maker founded by a 19 year-old Stanford dropout. Amanda Seyfried, whom I consider to be this generation's Michelle Pfiffer, and William H. Macy (honestly looking awful here I barely recognized him) knock it out of the park. The supporting cast, including Sam Watterston, were all fine as well. The production appeared to have a big budget and is a manageable 8 episodes. I binged this one in 24 hours. (Holmes and Balwani are both serving long prison sentences today and deservedly so.) See more Read all reviews

The Dropout — Limited Series

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