The Dropout
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The Dropout (2022)

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7.5
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 49,042 votes
7.1/10 5,155 votes Synced 2026-08-06
7.5/10 43,466 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 7.3/10 50 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 7.5/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 8.3/10 Synced 2026-07-18
Critics 9.0/10 Synced 2026-07-18
7.3/10 371 votes Synced 2026-09-13

External reviews

Richard Roeper · Chicago Sun-Times 88.00/100.00

The artistry of “The Dropout” is that while it never makes excuses for Holmes and shines a harsh spotlight on her bizarre behavior and sociopathic-level lack of empathy, we see her as a three-dimensional human being who had unlimited potential and probably WOULD have achieved something great had she listened to those who were trying to get her to slow down and do things the right way.

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Kevin Fallon · The Daily Beast 90.00/100.00

You get a sense of who Holmes was, what drove her ambition and, ultimately, the desperation behind her foolish delusion that she had to stay the course, even as things careened out of control. Yet the series never lionizes her or glorifies her actions—tempting given the scale and implausibility of what she pulled off for as long as she did. ... [The Dropout] gives us something much more valuable, something that Theranos hoped to achieve itself: A new, better way of doing things.

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Peter Travers · ABC News 88.00/100.00

Start engraving a Best Actress Emmy for Amanda Seyfried who is sensational as Theranos founder and fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in a true-crime story that is more than compulsively watchable, it’s a cautionary fable that really stings.

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Melanie McFarland · Salon 100.00/100.00

"The Dropout" will be tough to top, or even match, because of the way Seyfried, along with Meriwether and her writers, marry the visible facets of Holmes' put-on with her skewed ethical paradigm. ... ["The Dropout" makes] a person appreciate the scope of crime – and, better still, the extraordinary pleasure of watching Seyfried and the rest of the actors recreate this case with genuine confidence.

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Dan Rubins · Slant Magazine 88.00/100.00

The discovery that Elizabeth might not be the most interesting or important person on screen at all times is what makes The Dropout so watchable and so often startlingly moving.

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Rodrigo Perez · The Playlist 100.00/100.00

Think, “The Social Network” if it were less clinical, more emotionally perceptive, and somehow even sometimes sympathetic towards its similarly strange, dissocial, and pathological protagonist. It’s also led by an outstanding performance by Amanda Seyfried.

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Verne Gay · Newsday 88.00/100.00

Great cast, fine performances, consistently entertaining.

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Kathryn Porter · Paste Magazine 90.00/100.00

Hulu’s portrayal of her girlbossing too close to the sun is captivating through and through.

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Anita Singh · The Telegraph 80.00/100.00

The Dropout slowly draws you in, because the stakes are so much higher and Holmes’s rise is enthralling.

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Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone 80.00/100.00

It’s a maddening, gripping, and at times startlingly funny recreation of a story that would feel too absurd to be true if we didn’t already know otherwise.

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