Elizabeth Holmes

'The Dropout' showrunner Liz Meriwether talks through choices made during the final episode of her Elizabeth Holmes miniseries, almost filming at Burning ...

I fell in love with the format because it’s so fun to be able to have the time and the space to dig in with characters but also know that you’re not locked into a story for years and years. “Who do we need to hear about and what do we need to say?” If left to my own devices, it would’ve been a whole little essay about just where everybody was. I’ve been asked a lot, “What would you say to her if you saw her?” Really, it’s hard for me to engage with the real person — because, in my head, she’s so much of a character. I had to make that distinction in my head in order to move forward. That “You hurt people” moment had always been the closest thing that we had to that. There was actually an anecdote in a Vanity Fair article about the dog pooping in the office. We were all just desperate for some moment where she had a reckoning, where she acknowledged that something had happened — because she never really did it publicly, before the trial. As I was writing the finale, something clicked, because I knew I could trust her to be the one to say all of the things that I think you feel when you’re watching the show. “We need the dimensions of the box!” What was really hard is that it’s an ongoing story. But, at the same time, it felt their relationship had been building to this point where I needed there to be some big operatic finish. But I think it ultimately added a lot of layers and scope — every episode, you’re meeting new people and there’s new parts of the story. That was something I was scared of going into it.

When Elizabeth Holmes was convicted for conspiring to commit fraud against investors earlier this year, the reactions of many constituted nothing short of glee ...

Theranos is ultimately a case highlighting the grey areas of the industry – an unfortunate by-product of the invariably driven environment that Silicon Valley produces. The lesson of the Theranos case is not that we cannot accept the risks in this structure – there was always going to be a ‘Theranos-style’ case in Silicon Valley, it’s just a shame for everyone involved that it was, in fact, Theranos. As some of the earliest critics of the company inside the industry have insightfully pointed out, her conflation of optimism with reality was far from unusual for a tech start-up – otherwise her business would never have been propped up by investors as long as it was.

Elizabeth Meriwether, the creator of 'New Girl' and showrunner of Hulu's Elizabeth Holmes series 'The Dropout,' discusses the new show's music, working with ...

The second half of the series tries to show what it takes to stop a speeding train like Theranos. It takes a lot. Elizabeth referred to Sunny with melodramatic phrases like “the breeze in the desert.” “How to Love” came out in 2011. I could tell that was reaching for a joke, and I didn’t want the tone to be reaching for comedy. It was important to look at those different versions of being a woman in the sciences side by side. That scene was the climax of that story. But I had always been drawn to the character of Erika Cheung. The Tyler Shultz–George Shultz dynamic is incredible, but Erika, as another female scientist and a young woman in the story — there are a lot of parallels with Elizabeth, but she’s also very different. So I wrote into the script that “it all flashes in front of her eyes.” When I went to set, we talked about what it was going to be, and Amanda had a clear picture of what she wanted to do. I needed him in a turtleneck so that at the end of the episode “Green Juice” she’s in a turtleneck. I wish I had a cooler way of finding the songs, but I would Google the year“How to Love” came out in 2011. Over the course of putting the show together, I would get notes from Hulu that were like, “This is too ridiculous,” and I would be like, “This is actually what happened.” But while I loved the strangeness of the story, I never wanted the audience to comfortably laugh at things or to think of her as a joke. As I was working on the finale, I was thinking about her memory, and in the deposition, she keeps saying she can’t remember anything. There’s an exchange in the finale between Elizabeth and her mother that references Elizabeth’s assault and her mother’s advice to her afterward.

The creator of Hulu's "The Dropout" breaks down what's fact and fiction in the jaw-dropping Elizabeth Holmes scammer series.

"But then Phyllis, for me in the series, became the voice of women in the sciences and other female founders, (underlining) the effect that Elizabeth had on a field that is so male-dominated. "Ana Arriola (Nicky Endres), who was one of the employees at Theranos, saw Elizabeth in her car before work one morning dancing to a hip-hop song by herself when she thought no one was looking. One of the more surprising supporting characters in "Dropout" is the resentful Richard Fuisz (William H. Macy), a medical inventor and Holmes' childhood next-door neighbor, who clashes with her in the first episode before she heads to college. "The story is full of moments we can't really believe." In the last few minutes of the finale, Theranos lawyer Linda Tanner (Michaela Watkins) informs Elizabeth that investors including media mogul Rupert Murdoch have jumped ship, and urges her to declare bankruptcy. With Evans, "there seemed to be a real pivot," Meriwether says.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Evan Sernoffsky is an investigative reporter for KTVU who covered the four-month-long Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial from gavel-to-gavel.

The couple reportedly married, although, the legal and financial details of that union are unclear. By the time the CMS report came out, though, Holmes was forced to sing a different tune. Richard and Phyllis work with John Carreyrou to build a case First they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world." This really happened, and it's so important to the story that it's still coming up at trial. Richard and Phyllis work with John Carreyrou to build a case

CEO and founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, has been portrayed on the Hulu series The Dropout starring Amanda Seyfried. Her twitter account is still ...

This one says, “Define what is non-negotiable to you, what you are willing to fight for, die for, live for,” superimposed on the Golden Gate Bridge. Menacing, considering how people use this as a place to “die for” stuff. And nothing lays bare the callowness of empty “feminism” than wishing Margaret Thatcher’s corpse “Happy birthday.” Holmes was really trying to get “#ironsisters” going. The season finale of The Dropout, Hulu’s nuanced portrait of a turtle-necked girlboss, dropped on April 7, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time. Holmes’s feed at this time is full of her retweeting her own quotes. It appears that Holmes’s Twitter account from Theranos’s heyday is still more or less entirely intact and available to peruse with tweets going back to August 2015.