“I was constantly considering and reconsidering her”: TheDropout creator Elizabeth Meriwether wanted to depict Theranos's disgraced founder with bite—without judgment.
creator of Hulu’s limited series“I don’t know what was going on in her head, and I’ll never know,” Meriwether says. “And I don’t think the show presents an answer to that. Hopefully, the show continues to ask the questions—and challenges you to keep asking questions.”arrives at the intersection of those two subject areas.
to invest and managed to get a valuation in the billions—despite the fact that the machine didn’t worked consistently, even as consumers began relying on it for diagnoses. Her naive start-up evolved, gradually, into a life-threatening con.tells the story with a pointed, stylized interpretation. “The story covers 12 years. It covers tech. It covers business. There are gender issues. There’s Henry Kissinger,” says Meriwether, best known for creating Fox’s“It covers just so many things, and that was exciting for me—all of the places that the story went.”
For a public figure who’s been so regularly lampooned and villainized since her downfall—her bizarrely low voice and black turtlenecks are already the stuff of scam-artist legend—takes a notably empathetic approach in the first several episodes. We meet Elizabeth as an ambitious, brilliant teenager who finds college doesn’t move fast enough for her. A few fateful interactions find her suddenly in charge of her own company, with serious academic backing. The possibilities are seemingly limitless.
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