The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary That Makes a Fraudster Look Sympathetic, Explained

You Can See Everything follows Elizabeth Holmes for about a month before she reports to prison, and it exists because Holmes and partner Billy Evans brought the idea to A24 themselves. Nathan Fielder lives with the couple and their two children during filming. The film is a box-office success and a possible Best Picture contender, which means one of the most notorious fraud cases in business history is now officially a pop culture moment.

The uncomfortable part is the film’s ambiguity. Slate critic Laura Miller, a longtime Theranos obsessive, found herself briefly wondering if controlling men had set Holmes up, even though Holmes was convicted in 2022 of defrauding investors. Miller argues the movie works as art precisely because it scrambles your certainty, but she faults it for leaving out details like the $28,000-a-month beach rental and the private jet to prison. Those facts don’t fit the“victim owed a redemption arc”story now spreading online.

What Miller calls the Franken-girlboss narrative is the real story here: a convicted fraudster recast as a trauma survivor. Her sharpest line: a man can lie about his accomplishments, but a woman does it and suddenly we’re producing a six-part documentary about the disturbing psychology of female ambition. So will you watch it, and will you bring the context with you? Tell us in the comments.