Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Is the Year's Most Uncomfortable Watch

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim made a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, and it’s nearly three hours long.You Can See Everythingpicks up 34 days before Holmes is sent to prison for the Theranos fraud, following her, partner Billy Evans, and their two young children through that final countdown. Fielder is in the film the whole time, essentially interrogating whether Holmes truly believes she’s innocent or whether she’s the most manipulative person he’s ever encountered.

The second half delivers the twist everyone’s talking about. Amanda Seyfried, who played Holmes inThe Dropout, appears as Fielder’s onscreen sounding board, an actress who studied the role sitting beside a filmmaker trying to decode the real person. Holmes maintains she never tried to deceive anyone and says the New York Times misquoted her. The film had a top-secret premiere, is selling out opening-weekend screenings, and early audiences were asked to keep one collaborator’s identity hidden.

What makes the film land isn’t just Holmes. It’s the question underneath it: what happens when a convicted fraudster gets to rebrand herself on camera, and what do we become when we buy the ticket? The debate is the film’s real product.

Would you watch it, or does giving Holmes more screen time cross a line? Let us know.