Seyfried has dutifully recreated the most well-known aspects of the Theranos CEO, from Elizabeth’s baritone voice to her irregular blinking patterns and her black-turtleneck uniform. As new episodes air each week until then, we’ll keep track of where the show sticks to fact and where it may have dipped into fiction. The Dropout’s finale will stream at 3 a.m. But just how faithful is Hulu’s onscreen adaptation to its real-life source material? In case you don’t have time to delve into the history yourself, we’re comparing the major players (except for some whose images weren’t as easy to find - sorry, Edmond Ku) from each episode to their onscreen counterparts. The end credits of each episode of The Dropout remind us that the show is based on the ABC News investigative podcast of the same name, which contains interviews with investors, patients, and former Theranos employees, as well as recordings of deposition testimony.
But as reporting by the Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou first revealed in 2015, Theranos’s well-guarded product didn’t deliver on its lofty promises. Such technology would indeed represent a revolutionary scientific breakthrough, and the allure of the concept helped Holmes grow to become the youngest self-made female billionaire. Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at age 19 to found a biotech start-up that claimed it could perform a wide variety of diagnostic tests using only a drop or two of blood.
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The series follows the trajectory of the now-disgraced Silicon Valley darling who was once viewed as a visionary CEO poised to change the world of medicine. Two months after Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of four out of 11 counts of fraud and conspiracy at her blood-testing company Theranos, Hulu’s The Dropout has arrived. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by HBO and Hulu
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