My judgment is on the series as a compelling watch and not its historical accuracy. In this regard: The first half is sluggish. But the producers dedicate a lot of time to making sure you know the subplots count too (the work we see the WSJ journalist putting in makes us understand the importance when he & his boss finally meet face-to-face with the Theranos legal brigade).

But perhaps the best dramatic payoff is the evolution of the Liz-Sunny relationship told through the acting of Seyfried and Andrew's. Whether or not this is how their relationship played out in real life, it makes for strong viewing in this dramatization. The actors nail the dynamic of a relationship each knows is phony, the audience knows is phony and yet each remains convinced the *other person* in the relationship doesn't know is phony. It gives a lot of their dialogue a tense undertone of submeaning.

If you're willing to stick it out through some *less* believable dialogue early on and work to the halfway point where things really take off, you'll find it rewarding .