You think you know what reality television can achieve, and then Nathan Fielder teams up with Lance Oppenheim to document the 34 days leading up to Elizabeth Holmes going to prison. The resulting A24 project, You Can See Everything, defies every documentary norm we've grown accustomed to. When the first trailers dropped showing Fielder stepping into the domestic sphere of the disgraced Theranos founder, audiences collectively blinked hard. Is this a joke? Is it performance art? No, it is an entirely real, deeply unsettling three-year dive into the mind of someone who still believes her own pitch.
Most true crime projects treat their subjects like specimens behind thick glass. Fielder and Oppenheim decide to live right inside the fishbowl instead. Watching the footage, you are forced to confront a deeply uncomfortable truth. Holmes remains utterly unshakeable, speaking with the exact same eerie calm that once convinced billionaire investors and high-ranking politicians to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars. She insists to Fielder’s face that she never actually lied, framing her catastrophic deception as a misunderstanding of semantics and cloud-based technology.
The Mechanics of Manipulation on Camera
What makes the project so fascinating isn't just the sheer audacity of Holmes attempting to court new investors while weeks away from a federal prison sentence. It's watching Fielder monitor his own psychological reactions in real time. In interviews, Fielder has admitted to experiencing a bizarre mental tug-of-war. He would talk to her, feel completely convinced of her sincerity for a split second, and then have to actively remind himself that he was speaking to a convicted fraudster.
That exact cognitive dissonance translates directly to the screen. You will find yourself questioning your own judgment as she explains her grand visions with complete serenity. It triggers a profound unease because it strips away the comfortable distance we usually keep from grifters. We want villains to look and sound like cartoon characters. Holmes looks like your polite neighbor who happens to possess a bottomless well of absolute denial.
Why This Documentary Changes the Rules
For years, media coverage of Theranos followed a predictable script of outrage and disbelief. Books were written, scripted miniseries like The Dropout were produced, and society settled on a neat narrative of corporate malfeasance. This documentary completely detonates that neatness. By embedding filmmakers inside her actual living space, the project exposes how resilient human self-deception can be.
Fielder brings his trademark deadpan sociological curiosity to a subject that usually demands righteous indignation. Instead of shouting or cornering her with gotcha journalism, he just listens. He lets the silence stretch out for uncomfortably long stretches. And in those quiet moments, Holmes fills the void by doubling down on her reality distortion field.
If you plan on watching it, prepare to feel entirely unsettled. It forces you to look directly at the machinery of charisma without any guardrails to protect your common sense.
You Can See Everything Official Trailer
This trailer captures the exact psychological tension and surreal atmosphere that makes Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary a masterclass in modern discomfort.
