The 10 biggest revelations of Nathan Fielders new Elizabeth Holmes documentary 'You Can See Everything'

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Set us as preferred Nathan Fielder would rather you not read this article.At least not until you’ve seen his new movie.He has a point.Now in theaters, “You Can See Everything,” the nearly three-hour documentary Fielder co-directed with filmmaker Lance Oppenheim about convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is full of head-spinning twists and turns best left unspoiled, and the filmmakers have gone to extreme lengths to keep them that way.

At its secret premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last month, audience members were required to lock their phones in pouches and warned that security guards with night-vision goggles would be watching for anyone trying to record the screening.Afterward, Fielder pleaded with the crowd to keep the film’s biggest surprises to themselves.Holmes was convicted in 2022 of defrauding investors in her failed blood-testing company and sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison.

Fielder and Oppenheim began filming her and longtime partner Billy Evans, an MIT graduate and heir to a family-owned San Diego hotel business, shortly before she reported to prison in 2023, gaining extraordinary access to the couple and their two young children.Movies ‘You Can See Everything,’ co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, offers extraordinary access to the convicted Theranos founder before taking a reality-bending turn.Holmes and Evans welcomed the cameras, hoping they would help vindicate her.

But the closer Fielder and Oppenheim got to the couple, the harder it became to distinguish candor from calculated performance.Fielder, whose series “Nathan for You” and “The Rehearsal” put real people through elaborate, often uncomfortable experiments, began to wonder whether the tables had been turned.“I really am struggling to this day to understand exactly what I experienced in th...