As a nurse I was excited by the idea of doing tests with just a drop of blood. Blood draws are hard on some patients who have veins prone to roll or collapse. You have to fill a vial of blood at least 3/4s or the lab won't take it. So Theranos' promise was a dream. Unfortunately that's all it was. But Elizabeth Holmes thought having a dream was sufficient, just like so many people believe. We are told this by just about every motivational speaker, inspirational book and every Disney film. What we should be told is what Bette Davis said about dreams: what you really need to do is to set goals and work out the tasks required to achieve those goals. Holmes wasn't willing to do the hard work of figuring out how to do those tests and how to build a machine that could do it, mostly because it would take too long. And everyone bought into the idea that her dream would just come true. Nobody asked the tough questions about the practical difficulties involved. Because we believe in the American Dream, not the American Goal and the necessary and hard and not glamorous tasks that it will take to get there. The sad thing is that patients were lied to and endangered so that a narcissistic dreamer could enjoy the kudos of the rich and important without actually doing any of what was required to make her dreams a reality. Good miniseries with good performances all around.