The Dropout Episode 7 Review
It's amazing how the world bends around an interesting story; from the people driving the action, to the victims caught up in it, to the journalists trying to tell it to the masses. The tale of an unhealthy-driven CEO defrauding some of the world's most powerful people defies genre as it introduces new elements. Episode 7: «Heroes» comes from director Erica Watson, best known for helming a couple of episodes of Snowpiercer. The episode is written by Liz Heldens, the Passage and The Big Leap creator.
The pacing of The Dropout is a thing of beauty, weaving a story of several years into an eight-episode miniseries. It's well-portioned, intelligently spaced out, and covers all the fun parts. «Heroes», like «I'm in a Hurry» before it, is named after the excellent song that heralds it in. David Bowie's 1977 masterwork appears somewhat ironically in the episode, the primary driver of which is the suffering faced by the story's supposed heroes. Disparate forces, brought together by the singular goal to take down a greedy company before it hurts countless people, united only by the immense difficulty they face. Spoiling a story that happened in reality, to enormous public attention should logically be impossible, but seeing what's become of Richard Fuisz's life as he pursues vindication is genuinely chilling.
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After Tyler Shultz, Erika Cheung, and Mark Roessler resolved to turn against Theranos, the company has struck back. Seeing the immense power of a wealthy corporation turned against a handful of regular people is terrifying. Legal action is viewed as the big threat, but the constant surveillance and the never-ending pressure of fighting a monolith weigh on the
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