Out of the whole wave of early-2020s scammer television (Inventing Anna, WeCrashed, Super Pumped), The Dropout is the one that holds up best. That's mostly down to Amanda Seyfried, who takes a real-life figure famous for a fake baritone voice, black turtlenecks, and unblinking eyes, and somehow finds a human being underneath the sociopathy.
For older teens, it's a sharp watch alongside a parent. Younger kids will be bored to tears by eight episodes of boardroom intrigue and faulty blood-testing machines, so you don't have to worry about them wandering in. For high schoolers, though, it's a crash course in how charisma, NDAs, and fear of missing out can blind an entire industry—and what actual integrity costs when you're a 22-year-old lab tech going up against billionaire lawyers.














