Winter TV Watch List: Silicon Valley Scammers and Jean-Luc Picard’s Return
thewrap.com“The Dropout”Thursday, March 3, HuluBased on the podcast of the same name by Rebecca Jarvis, “The Dropout” follows Elizabeth Holmes (played by Amanda Seyfried after Kate McKinnon, um, dropped out) and her short-lived tech company, Theranos.
And you know what that means – fraud season continues! If you haven’t heard of Holmes (or watched the excellent HBO documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley”), she touted a new technology wherein blood could be tested from a single drop.
Of course, the idea had no basis in reality and she still managed to swindle plenty of people and wind up on the cover of magazines as the next Silicon Valley whiz kid.
That combined with her odd affectations (dressing like Steve Jobs, pitching her voice to an unnaturally low grumble, a propensity to never blink) made her a sensation — and her fall from grace was even more catastrophic.
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