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    'You hurt people!' How 'The Dropout' stuck the landing on Elizabeth Holmes' downfall

    "Do you really believe that?" "Is there something wrong with you?" "Do you have any idea of what you did?" This is what Theranos lawyer Linda Tanner asks her now-former boss in the last minutes of "The Dropout," the Hulu miniseries dramatizing the rise and fall of the fraudulent blood-testing startup and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes. Though Holmes had her company shut down by the government, ...
    by Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times Apr 07, 2022 6 minutes
    Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes in "The Dropout."

    "Do you really believe that?"

    "Is there something wrong with you?"

    "Do you have any idea of what you did?"

    This is what Theranos lawyer Linda Tanner asks her now-former boss in the last minutes of "The Dropout," the Hulu miniseries dramatizing the rise and fall of the fraudulent blood-testing startup and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes.

    Though Holmes had her company shut down by the government, owes millions of dollars across various settlements and could go to jail for 20 years, the disgraced wunderkind (portrayed by Amanda Seyfried) appears unmoved by any of it, and even has the audacity to be upbeat while playing with her new dog, dishing on her new boyfriend and, as she describes it, "taking a moment to enjoy myself and have fun."

    "You hurt people," continues Tanner, played by Michaela Watkins. "I worked here, so I have to live with that somehow. But I'm not sure that you understand. I mean, you must, right?" It's what the viewers of the eight episodes are also asking, up until these

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