Ripped From the Headlines: Where to Stream the Best Tech Dramas

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Consumer technology and entertainment both move in cycles. After years of wanting smaller smartphones, we now demand handsets that resemble tablets. Likewise, prestige TV brought cinematic quality and freedom to cable, but now cutting-edge video streaming services embrace trashy reality shows featuring people running their lives for our pleasure. The two segments intersect with the new crop of tech dramas.

The tech industry has no shortage of people who enjoyed meteoric (and suspicious) success, only to become absolute lunatics or outright convicted criminals. The backstabbing, money-chasing hustles and huge grifts may make you cynical about the world, but it also makes for compelling drama.

We’ve seen so many of these tech disasters that they’ve now become the big, new trend on video streaming services. The movies and TV programs spotlight charismatic (but flawed and unhinged) tech founders, show their rise to the top, and revel in how they lost it all through greed, incompetence, half-truths, and blatant lies. Take Goodfellas, and replace the gangsters with folks in vest jackets. 

You can use video streaming services to enjoy these parables about technology's dangers. When dry documentaries aren’t enough, check out the best tech dramas that are ripped straight from the headlines.

Amanda Seyfried plays Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, a Hulu miniseries. Despite her creepy eyes and allegedly fake, deep voice, Holmes can’t transplant Silicon Valley’s dubious hustle culture into the medical field, a place where human lives are on the line. Catch up on this story before Holmes gets sentenced later this year.

Halt and Catch Fire is a fictional show, but it explores the 1980s and 1990s computer culture so