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The Dropout review: The charismatic Star Wars geek who swindled her way to millions, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The Dropout, a series that first aired on Disney+ in 2022, is a corporate true-crime story about Elizabeth Holmes, the former poster girl for Silicon Valley.

The Dropout, a series that first aired on Disney+ in 2022, is a corporate true-crime story that can't decide whether to glorify or demonise Holmes, the former poster girl for Silicon Valley, whose fall from grace was spectacular. Elon Musk's rockets explode (or undergo 'rapid unscheduled disassembly') and his Tesla cars do occasionally burst into flames, but it can only be a matter of time before he's the subject of an adoring Hollywood biopic, too. It culminated in a manic pitch for investment on Larry Ellison's yacht, giving a madly macho cameo to Die Hard's Hart Bochner as the maverick computer software multi-billionaire.

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