The Dropout
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Woof, this is a heavy one, yall.
What working at Theranos does to poor Ian Gibbons … well, its pretty tragic.
(Content warning for discussion of suicide in this recap.)
Theranos is bleeding (LOL) money year after year.
Or that Sunny will magically get thingsoperatingright since hes in charge ofoperations.
Or that she will magicallynotbe the very public face of this company.
(As a side note, does she know she canmagicallyput her iPhone on silent?)
Elizabeths old neighbor Richard and the patent lawsuit he and Theranos are embroiled in.
Hes dragged into the aforementioned lawsuit because his name is on the patents with Elizabeths.
But he did not survive the mental anguish working at Theranos put him through.
That is fucking awful and sad.
The fraud it just gets bigger and bigger each episode.
This is who I am.
And anyone who doubts my company doubts me.
Does anyone here doubt me?
A real pivot from where she started the episode.
Who tells him that Elizabeth has always been a fraud.
And thats that … until next week, anyway.
Spare Drops of Blood
If I settle now, Im the shmuck!
Richard, dude, you have been the schmuck since we met you in the shows first episode.
Flower of Life brings us the return of Amanda SeyfriedasElizabeth-Holmes dancing!
Thank you, TV gods.
For those keeping track at home, Henry Kissinger has joined the Theranos board.
At the Theranos Halloween party, Elizabeth is dressed as a wizard.
A nice visual reminder that she clearly believes more in magic than science at this point.
