🍿 2022-04-20 18:30:27 – Paris/France.
There is an almost parodic aspect to the portrayal of young Elizabeth Holmes and her musical tastes. In the first episodes of 'The Dropout: The Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes', which arrives today on Disney+, we see the young woman played by Amanda Seyfried Motivate yourself with fairly “regular” songs.
More parodic for its look at those common tropes in stories of great entrepreneurs, business sharks, and people destined (or who think they are destined) to build the next great empire. With that the script signed by Elizabeth Meriwether and company plays a lot.
Based on the ABC News podcast of the same name, the eight-episode miniseries follows the case of Theranos, the company that promised to revolutionize the world of clinical diagnostics turned out to be a massive scam. A case that we have already seen on screen thanks to the documentary by Alex Gibney for HBO.
The “Steve Jobs of medical science”
In this wave of "startup era chronicles" we're experiencing on TV (this past few months we've already seen 'WeCrashed', on WeWork and 'Super Pumped' on Uber), one of the things the most surprising thing is that 'The Dropout' has a certain vocation for comedy.
Not only in the previously mentioned musical selection, but in the drama that it is, the fiction is populated with friendly characters and comic relief in the form of dialogue and another situation (Holmes repeating his boss voice). Which is understandable since its creator and showrunner has been seasoned in the genre.with comedies like “New Girl” in his portfolio.
This, in fact, sets her apart from her "sub-sub-subgenre" peers like those mentioned above and millennial con stories like the recent "Who is Anna?" (Inventing Anna). But that's not why the miniseries shines, but because it polishes the portrait a lot both as a rogue, allies, and the world that falls into their networks.
The fourth episode, for example, is a good example. On one side we have a fully transformed Elizabeth in the picture we all know. Throughout the first act of the series, we see her evolve from a young optimist and convinced that everything was going to be fine to someone who stops prioritizing science in favor of advancing the product.
On the other hand, the series also affects another factor that led to this boom: big companies that don't want to be left behind and be the latest to join the novelty in a world dominated by startups. Thus, they are forced to assume an innovative way of doing things based more on promise than on reality.
Negotiates very well with stereotypes
'The Dropout' negotiates very well with the viewer when it comes to assuming the presuppositions and stereotypes typical of this type of story: the greed of big business, the treacherous startup, the crooks... and, without sanctifying them , manages to grant a welcoming three-dimensionality to any
All this, added to the brilliant performance of Seyfried and the rest of the cast (with Stephen Fry, Naveen Andrews and even William H. Macy, among others) they manage to row 'The Dropout' completely in favor of the complex story What does Meriwether mean?
In short, "The stall" it's a great series. The script deconstructs tropes of the "scam" genre to deliver a compelling chronicle and occasional bright spots of a con that left half of Silicon Valley "in its pants."
SOURCE: Reviews News
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