The Dropout: Miniseries

"It was only a matter of time before someone adapted Holmes’ story to the screen... (The Dropout) is the first -- and its canny performances, writing, and directing should set a high bar for every other version to come."

"Delicate portraiture is where most scam shows falter and where The Dropout really pulls ahead of the competition."

"The Dropout feels a little bloodless."

"The Dropout gets under your skin, passing the "Should I watch?" test with flying colors."

"Things really start to move in episode 7, which must be the worst thing you can read in a TV review."

"Even if (The Dropout) exists more as a surface-level primer than a deep-dive, stars Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews make it compulsively watchable."

"It’s a maddening, gripping, and at times startlingly funny recreation of a story that would feel too absurd to be true if we didn’t already know otherwise."

"Bloody good performances."

"Amanda Seyfried deftly conveys the brittleness of Holmes’s fake-it-till-you-make-it demeanour, but the series is slightly let down by foreshadowing, blunt symbolism."

"The details are strikingly unembellished, but its the perspective-shifting storytelling that brims with imagination."

"The limited series compounds both the gravity and ridiculousness of what Holmes did not achieve."

"The Dropout refuses to ever fully lock on to a clear mission statement of its own, instead dutifully plowing through the facts of the case..."