I just finished watching The Dropout, a mini series portraying the case of Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech company called Theramos. 

Spoilers to follow 

I didn't know ANYTHING about this story when I started watching this, and to be honest the first few episodes bored me rather.. 🤭 But, by the last 3 episodes I was hooked and desperate to find out what happened. 

In the end she is serving 11+ years for her fraud. The bigger question though for me, is whether she was actually a kind of psychopath! 

The series does allude to this a lot.. she has a breakdown and then uses different voices. She is also presented as cold, caluculated, manipulative.. 

The clip I shared is from the final episode and sums up a lot of it. 

At first I thought it's a complex question, but actually it's very simple. And, in fact, we see so much of this in life and specifically in politics and law, of how people can just avoid lying now. The series depicted Holmes' trial and of course many of her answers are vague "I don't remember, I don't recall specifics" etc 

By now in life, you can tell the person in the wrong more by how they avoid questions instead of lying. It was the same when the NY times repeatedly told her team of lawyers that if they had nothing to hide they should "just answer the questions". 

I wonder even if you haven't seen this, what do you think of these ideas? 

I'd give the series a solid 8/10, I really enjoyed the intense psychological moments, and the crazy relationships she had with people, but especially with Sunny, who actually I think was played much better and was my favourite character.