The Dropout Reviews: Critics Praise Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes
Advance reviews have just arrived for the Hulu biopic series The Dropout and critics are praising Amanda Seyfried's performance as Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes was the first self-made female billionaire off the back of her company Theranos, which purported to be using a revolutionary technology for blood sample testing. It eventually came to light that she was committing massive fraud and she is currently set to be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison this September. Her story has been the subject of much furor and has been covered by the 2018 nonfiction book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, the 2019 HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, and the 2019 ABC Audio podcast The Dropout.
That audio series has now been adapted into a TV miniseries by Hulu starring Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes. It follows her from age 17 to 34 and tracks the development of the massive story with a supporting cast including Naveen Andrews, Sam Waterston, William H. Macy, Laurie Metcalf, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Stephen Fry, Michael Ironside, Dylan Minnette, and Alan Ruck. The series was originally developed with Kate McKinnon in the lead, but she dropped out in favor of Seyfried and is now playing Tiger King figure Carole Baskin in the Peacock series Joe vs. Carole, which drops on March 3, 2022, the same day as The Dropout.
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Today, many different outlets have released their early reviews for The Dropout ahead of its streaming premiere. While some have harsher words to say about Seyfried's performance (EW calls her "vaguely Vulcan"), most agree that she delivers as the offbeat personality she's portraying. Likewise, while outlets differ on whether the series
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