Out of the bustling ecosystem of this season’s true crime dramas and docs, “The Dropout,” Hulu’s dynamic adaptation of the ABC News podcast about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, has emerge…
,” Hulu’s dynamic adaptation of the ABC News podcast about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, has emerged as an innovative creation in the sub-genre of scam TV. But when she created the series, showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether didn’t see it that way at first.Meriwether accepts the placement of her series within the overall scam genre, which has never been more popular, but says there are more differences between the myriad projects than similarities.
They believe that film was “the first scam culture documentary,” adding that they’re not interested in vilifying their main characters. Instead, they seek to examine the circumstances that birthed them, particularly in more ordinary environments than Silicon Valley or among the New York City elite.
Felicity Morris, director of Netflix’s “The Tinder Swindler,” says that audience’s base attraction to the genre stems from a relatability to the schemers’ motives, which are often to climb the ranks of society without the usual work that goes into it. The sudden flood of fraud dramas may also be explained as a response to the true crime documentary boom of a few years ago, and the benefits that come with adapting them as dramas.
Meanwhile, Meriwether says she was inspired to venture into the true crime realm after she watched the first season of Ryan Murphy’s “American Crime Story,” which dramatized the era-defining O.J. Simpson case. “We basically started this huge trend in scam TV, and I think the reason is because as consumers, we’re all getting scammed,” Nason says. “It’s like watching our cultural id give us some pep talk for our own egos.”Courtesy of Netflix
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