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Scammer TV season marches along with Hulu’s The Dropout, the best recent series to analyze the very American story of a person lying their way to fame and fortune and scamming investors and allies before a highly publicized, rabidly judged downfall. The Dropout stars Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of the blood-testing company Theranos, and Naveen Andrews as Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the business partner and secret boyfriend with whom she built the company. Theranos grew to be worth billions of dollars despite never providing consistent results from its Edison machine, and The Dropout paints Holmes and Balwani as an increasingly toxic pair whose relationship is fascinating in its oddness and…
