Elizabeth holmes documentary7/3/2023 ![]() Viewers learn about the scammer’s bad behavior, the scammer gets their comeuppance, and nobody will get tricked by them ever again. ![]() These days, if you try to, say, swindle millions of dollars from the women you’re dating while pretending to be a wealthy heir, Netflix will likely make a documentary about you that everyone will talk about for a week. ![]() The moral is that there’s value in following the rules, even if the rules are largely arbitrary. (There’s also a feature film about Holmes in the works starring Jennifer Lawrence.)ĭocuseries about scam artists are comforting because they represent what we’d always like to be true: that there’s no real way to get rich quickly and illegally without consequences. But the latest, and perhaps the best reviewed of the bunch, is Hulu’s miniseries based on the Theranos scam, The Dropout, which premiered earlier this month. Later this month, Apple TV+ will premiere WeCrashed, featuring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as the Neumanns. In February, Netflix premiered Inventing Anna, and Showtime launched Super Pumped, about Uber’s egotistical CEO. Now, all within a few weeks of one another, fictionalized TV series about these scandals are coming out. These documentaries feel far less ethically dubious than the true crime content that gets made even though a victim’s living relatives likely don’t need a real-life cold case to go viral 20 years after the fact. There’s comfort in seeing someone’s awful plan fall apart and schadenfreude in watching rich players lose their money. I inhaled Generation Hustle, The Inventor, and WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn. It was just a few years ago that the “ summer of scam” had us all by the throats with a few now-infamous cases: Anna Delvey’s New York It Girl posturing, Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos failure, and Adam and Rebekah Neumann’s WeWork collapse.ĭespite the fact that a new docuseries about a scammer appears every 15 minutes, I still love them.
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