I was anticipating this one quite a bit after following the initial story but wasn't really thrilled about the doc. I felt like they let Holmes off kind of easy painting her as a zealot who had lost touch with reality and believed her lie because of her devotion to the cause
That wasn't the case at all. Her and her boyfriend were well aware of what they were doing and fully cognizant of what laws they were breaking and who they were screwing over. They also glossed over a lot of the details of the terrible work environment that Theranos became. I know they covered it, but there needed to be more specific examples because her and that boyfriend of hers basically created a hellscape of a workplace.
One of the interesting things about this story is how she was able to get by all of these supposedly smart people without any data and proof. They briefly touch on this in the doc, but what they didn't do is get into why she was able to do it.
When Theranos was at its peak and before Holmes was exposed as being a fraud, everyone in Tech, Tech Media, investment publications, and Silicon Valley were falling all over her for being the FIRST self made female billionaire. This fact in itself allowed her to operate with impunity and rarely subjected her to questioning. In a sense, she was a very protected class in probably the WOKEST place in the world. Someone mentioned all the stock footage of her walking around, etc, and that's because she was likely being followed by crews wanting to document her every move. Add to the fact that she apparently loved the attention and an instant monster was created