“This is an inspiring step forward,” Amanda Seyfried, portraying convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, tells her subordinate, while all but forcing him to perform defective blood tests on terminally ill patients.
In the new Hulu series “The Dropout,” the audience gets a deeper look into the rise and fall of Holmes, former CEO of Theranos (a combination of “therapy” and “diagnosis”) who was found guilty on three counts of fraud and one of conspiring to defraud investors earlier this year.