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You Can See Everything mania lifts viewership for The Dropout by 186%

The Guardian UK Tuesday 20 October 2026, 21:16 UTC By Adrian Horton 1 min read
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The hit Elizabeth Holmes documentary led to increased interest in the award-winning narrative series on Hulu as well as Bad Blood, a 2018 book on the scandal‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’: how Lance Oppenheim made the year’s two buzziest films‘You can’t make this stuff up’: why we remain fascinated by Elizabeth HolmesInterest in Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos fraud scandal has surged amid buzz for You Can See Everything, the record-breaking documentary on the disgraced former...

The hit Elizabeth Holmes documentary led to increased interest in the award-winning narrative series on Hulu as well as Bad Blood, a 2018 book on the scandal

Interest in Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos fraud scandal has surged amid buzz for You Can See Everything, the record-breaking documentary on the disgraced former CEO.

Viewership for The Dropout, the 2022 Hulu series starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes, surged by 186% in September compared with the month prior, according to Variety, following the announcement on 6 September of the previously secret film’s first teaser.

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