The Dropout
Lizzy
TV Flash files “Lizzy” as a desk essential hour — The Dropout (2022) on Hulu, season 1, episode 8, aired 2022-04-07, 52 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 8 in the The Dropout guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 2022-04-07 (52 min). The listed hour before it is “Heroes” (S01E07). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Lizzy”. Lizzy as the eight-episode close: the nickname as ending, Hulu limited craft still a clean arc through rise and collapse, not a documentary leftover.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the wake of the Wall Street Journal article, Elizabeth and Sunny face a reckoning.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Lizzy sit in the The Dropout guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 8 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did The Dropout S01E08 air?
Lizzy aired 2022-04-07 and is listed at 52 minutes.
How many episodes?
Eight. A complete limited series from rise through criminal downfall, adapted from the ABC News podcast of the same name.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Amanda Seyfried's precision portrait of Elizabeth Holmes through Theranos rise and collapse. Elizabeth Meriwether's eight-episode Hulu limited series is a clean arc through a scam everyone thinks they know — fake blood tests, black turtleneck, Silicon Valley belief as American tragedy.
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