The Dropout: What Happened To Kevin Hunter & Where He Is Now
Warning: SPOILERS for The Dropout ahead!
The Dropout'sWalgreens-employed lab consultant Kevin Hunter is regularly overruled when he asks to test Theranos’ technology’s authenticity, raising questions of what happened to the real Kevin Hunter and where he is now. The Dropout is an 8-episode miniseries from New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether, based on the podcast of the same name produced by ABC News. The Hulu limited series focuses on biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes (played by Amanda Seyfried), who was convicted of criminal fraud in January 2022, and the fast rise and fall of her company, Theranos.
In The Dropout episodes 1 to 3, the truth almost catches up to Holmes and the board tries to remove her as CEO upon learning she has hidden things from them. She ends up being saved by her partner Sunny Balwani (Lost and Once Upon A Time’s Naveen Andrews) entering the company as COO. The Dropout episode 4 introduces a completely new challenge as, although Theranos’s product the Edison is nowhere near ready to be used in stores as the new plan envisages, Holmes and Balwani look for distribution to drugstores and grocery stores anyway, tricking executives from Walgreens and Safeway into believing they'll cut a deal with the other company. In The Dropout episode 4, titled “Old White Men,” the only character who seems to be able to see past Holmes and Balwani’s sketchy behavior is lab consultant Kevin Hunter (Rich Sommer), employed by Walgreens to verify the authenticity of Theranos’s claims.
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As it turns out, Hunter’s role in the miniseries mirrors what happened in reality, as detailed by John Carreyrou’s nonfiction book on Theranos, Bad
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