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  1. crime and punishment
    Elizabeth Holmes Is Getting Shah-mazing Abs Under Her Prison JumpsuitWithout the green juice, she has to do something for her health.
  2. black turtleneck vibes
    Amanda Seyfried Calls Elizabeth Holmes’ Prison Sentence ‘Fair’Gobbledygook answers are sometimes the best ones.
  3. bridges you cross
    Amanda Seyfried Was Auditioning for Wicked While Playing Elizabeth Holmes[Elizabeth Holmes voice] Popular, you’re gonna be pop-u-lar.
  4. emmys 2022
    Celebrities Are Just Honored to Be Emmy-NominatedWho here had the best morning?
  5. good one podcast
    Liz Meriwether Needed to Write New Girl to Make Sense of Elizabeth Holmes“I never wanted the jokes to allow the audience to distance themselves from Elizabeth.”
  6. thera-no
    Amanda Seyfried Wants to ‘Spend Some Time’ With Elizabeth HolmesAnd Jared Leto’s down to set them up.
  7. girlbossery
    Elizabeth Holmes’s Old Tweets Are Miraculously Still UpIt’s like watching The Dropout unfold in real time … on Twitter … with 100 percent more Margaret Thatcher quotes.
  8. chat room
    The Dropout’s Camryn Mi-young Kim on Capturing Whistleblower Erika Cheung“She’s watching when other people aren’t, asking questions when other people aren’t.”
  9. a bloody study
    How The Dropout’s Actors Compare to Their Real-Life CounterpartsThe series stays largely faithful to the true story of Theranos, the fraudulent biotech start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
  10. close read
    The Dropout Revealed Its Truths via Needle DropMusical moments are used so effectively throughout the miniseries that even their absence in the finale is illuminating.
  11. overnights
    The Dropout Series-Finale Recap: Okay, ByeAs the bleak end approaches, Elizabeth undoes all of her CEO trappings and undergoes yet another reinvention.
  12. exit interview
    Elizabeth Meriwether Wants to Complicate Your Diagnosis of Elizabeth HolmesThe Dropout showrunner on identifying with the disgraced Theranos founder, making Holmes dance to “How to Love,” and keeping the green juice flowing.
  13. overnights
    The Dropout Recap: Stab the FishAs much as this episode is about Theranos’s major successes amid an investigation, it’s also about Elizabeth cheering, “We got herpes!”
  14. overnights
    The Dropout Recap: Elizabeth the GreatThis week, The Dropout blends the buddy investigation, horror movie, and #WomenInScience biopic genres into a fun episode of television.
  15. overnights
    The Dropout Recap: Science or WhateverElizabeth has trouble keeping track of all her lies.
  16. overnights
    The Dropout Recap: NDAs and SnacksAmanda Seyfried deploys some amazing blank stares as Elizabeth Holmes in 2010.
  17. chat room
    The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews Saw Sunny Balwani As Lady Macbeth“I always felt that there was this huge void of insecurity in Sunny, and what made him interesting was I don’t think he was aware of it.”
  18. overnights
    The Dropout Recap: Adult SupervisionElizabeth gets a full CEO makeover.
  19. overnights
    The Dropout Recap: I Can’t Feel My FingersThe unsubtle subtext is that everyone at Theranos cares so much about their work that they will literally give their blood to it.
  20. overnights
    The Dropout Series-Premiere Recap: I Wanna Be a BillionaireElizabeth meets Sunny and starts on her journey to become a billionaire in The Dropout’s premiere.
  21. tv review
    The Dropout Hits the Scammer Sweet SpotAmanda Seyfried’s take on Elizabeth Holmes taps into the compelling mess that many scam shows promise but few manage to deliver.
  22. cheat sheet
    The Grifters Have Come for Your TVFrom real-estate empires to sham blood-testing apparatuses, let’s separate the scum from the scammers.
  23. the law
    Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty on Four Counts of Fraud and ConspiracyThe jury could not reach a verdict on three charges, and acquitted her of the remaining four.
  24. turtlenecks
    This Is What Amanda Seyfried’s Elizabeth Holmes Looks LikeBut what does she sound like?
  25. true crime podcasts
    This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Elizabeth Holmes on TrialPlus, dive into the Killer Psyche of Dr. Death.
  26. casting
    Naveen Andrews Cast Opposite Amanda Seyfried in The DropoutAs Sunny Balwani, obviously.
  27. therano more
    Kate McKinnon Drops Out of The Drop Out Hulu Series About Elizabeth HolmesShe’s still set to play Carole Baskin though.
  28. kate mckinnon
    Kate McKinnon Is Playing Elizabeth Holmes in a Hulu Drama — Yes, a DramaThe show is based on the podcast The Dropout.
  29. scams
    20/20 to Air Its Own Special About the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos DebacleThe ABC News podcast The Dropout, also about Holmes, premiered in January.
  30. true crime podcasts
    This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Michael Connelly, the New York Times, and MorePlus, the story of a young Marine’s wife who disappeared.
  31. true crime podcasts
    This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Elizabeth Holmes, Conan O’Brien, and MorePlus, tales from Down Under.