The Dropout Diaries (no longer updated)

In this week's episode of The Dropout Diaries, Wingspan's Trisha Dasgupta talks about the final episode of Hulu's "The Dropout."...

In this week's episode of The Dropout Diaries, Wingspan's Trisha Dasgupta talks about the rise in true crime and how The Dropout does it well....

This week’s episode of The Dropout was somewhat of an SNL sketch at moments, but overall very fun nonetheless. While the pace dropped a little bit, the best part of this episode was getting to see John Carreryrou uncover more and more of the eventual story that would become Bad Blood. This episode also gave us another phenomenal performance from Amanda Seyfried and Dylan Minnette, and I truly belie...

In this week's episode of The Dropout Diaries, senior Trisha Dasgupta talks about feminism and Elizabeth Holmes. ...

Okay. Wow.  Episode six of The Dropout was by far the best episode that has been released and I genuinely cannot believe how well written, directed, shot, and performed this episode was.  While the previous episodes were paced like mini psychological thrillers, episode six was a horror movie, with scenes that brought forth so much suspense and anxiety- a notably difficult feat considering ...

In this episode of The Dropout Diaries, Wingspan's Trisha Dasgupta discusses the context and culture in silicon valley that led to the creation of Theranos....

The Theranos scandal has become a running joke- while there’s a general consensus that it was a serious series of crimes, the absurdity of it all sometimes overshadows the genuine harm done by Elizabeth Holmes’ continuous lying. This week’s episode of The Dropout (titled, The Circle of Life) was haunting and very well done, all of the storylines working in conjunction with each other to start to sho...

The story of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, first captured by investigative reporter John Carreyrou in what became the book Bad Blood, is cinematic in and of itself- before any creative liberties or Oscar-nominated actors are added to help push the thrill along. That being said, there were so many different ways Hulu’s The Dropout could’ve gone wrong.  The Dropout could have been the same ...