"The Dropout"

I didn't care for "Inventing Anna" and I put this series in the same category without viewing it.  But I watched it for the SAG Awards and found it better than expected.  It puts quirky, weird, irritating Elizabeth Holmes in a slightly different light.  There is background, structure, a sense of who she is and why she makes certain decisions.  That being said, she is a brilliant mind which is a bit "off".  So don't expect to fully understand her after it is all said and done.  No, she didn't start out to scam everyone or even to get fabulously rich.  She had a true belief that she could help people and the insistence of youth that she must be right about everything because "the old people who run everything are just blind and rigid".  There are legitimate issues here about the ridiculousness of how medical research gets funded, and how dismissive and predatory the men with the money are to women trying to get ahead.  Does it excuse her nasty behavior towards her staff?  No.  But the whole thing puts in her in context.  She isn't a bad person per se.  She's just someone who doesn't see others, or reality, very well.