Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOf all this season’s limited series based on high-profile incidents of chicanery, “The Dropout” stands out.
More than Showtime’s Uber show, Apple’s WeWork show, or Netflix’s Anna Delvey show, Hulu’s look at the life and career of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes feels as though it has a certain point-of-view on its subject.
And that subject – Holmes, as played by Amanda Seyfried, and the culture that made her – finds brilliant expression in the series’ music choices, overseen by music supervisor Maggie Phillips.
Rarely in recent memory has a pop soundtrack been leveraged so effectively, and so eerily, to underscore points the show is making.Consider, for instance, a scene in which a pre-fame Holmes is waiting outside the Apple Store on the day of the iPhone’s release.
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