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Stephen Fry does good work in these early sections as Ian Gibbons, an experienced scientist (unlike Elizabeth Holmes) who was part of Theranos from practically the beginning, who was fired, rehired, and then demoted from the lab he loved. Macy) and his long legal battle with Theranos don't really work they're a little too silly, despite the presence of Macy and the great Mary Lynn Rajskub as his wife. The tone in the early going is uneven, too: Efforts to tackle the story of family friend Richard Fuisz (William H. But in those sections, it's a little more on rails and less intriguing, especially for people who have read a lot about her. It traces her relationship with the much older Sunny Balwani (Naveen Andrews), who would eventually be her boyfriend, second-in-command at Theranos, and fellow defendant. Sure, the show, from Liz Meriwether (who made New Girl), looks at Holmes' early life and her relationship with her parents (Elizabeth Marvel has great fun as her mother) and brother. It's about everybody else, and about the question: How did so many people stay on the hook for so long?

That part feels very familiar.Īt its best, The Dropout is about the thing that separates Theranos from a lot of these other startups, which is the fact that the Theranos technology, according to the legal proceedings against Holmes, never worked the way they said it did. Nevertheless, the best parts of the series are not the parts about Holmes and her passion for riches and fame - which resembles the passions of a lot of other tech founders for riches and fame, as portrayed in other series (documentary or scripted) about, say, Uber or WeWork. Seyfried does a fine job throughout of offering not a precise impersonation of Elizabeth Holmes, but a sense of her. There's a moment very early on in the series when a interviewer asks Holmes to describe herself in one word, and she hesitates, hesitates, hesitates, before finally saying: "Mission-oriented." It's not all about her