The Dropout Episode 6 Review
This episode of Hulu's dramatic retelling of the grim tale of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos sets all the pieces in place for the finale. In between the brave and driven figures who sought to expose the company's wrongdoing, the show takes time to explore one of the most iconic images of its founder. Francesca Gregorini again takes the helm on this episode, which is written by regular story editor Wei-Ning Yu.
Since episode one, The Dropout has made great use of a central framing device. Most of the big events of the series were accompanied by a recreation of the deposition wherein Holmes accounts her actions as CEO. That segment is absent from episode 6: «Iron Sisters», but in its place is a clever alternative. Most who can picture Elizabeth Holmes have a particular image in their head, the one that opens The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. The close-up, where she's looking directly to the camera while surrounded by harsh bright white, was originally filmed for an ad campaign. From that position, Elizabeth does most of her framing in this episode.
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Rather than establishing the events as they happen, the show's take on Errol Morris interrogates Holmes as a person and is left wanting. The most impressive aspect of Amanda Seyfried's performance as Holmes and the way the character is written is that it manages to make her feel scripted within a scripted work. Holmes was notoriously obsessed with image, every aspect of her personality manicured and stage-managed for maximum public relatability. Of course, the entire work is scripted, yet Holmes still manages to feel uniquely artificial against a world of naturalistic performance. Watching Seyfried, a great actor doing a
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