Spoiler alert, in the most literal sense: if you haven’t seen You Can See Everything, stop here, go see it and come back. We’ll wait. It’s three hours. Bring snacks.
We saw everything. We understood nothing.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spent the last 34 days before Elizabeth Holmes went to prison living in her house, and kept filming long after she left. We walked out of the theater with broken brains. (Actual text from Sara, sent in the middle of the night: “Is your brain broken?” Erica’s reply: “Yes, I need answers.”) So we put on our black turtlenecks and opened a support group.
We get into the camera work that puts you inches from those unblinking blue eyes, the egg scene, the guest room with no pillows and the moment the title turned out to be very literal. We ask whether Billy Evans is the puppet master or the fall guy, why we both felt bad for Holmes and then felt bad about feeling bad, and what Theranos whistleblowers Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung are saying now that the film is out. Then Erica runs a round of Believe It or Not on the things Holmes says on camera, from her innocence to her “modest” beach rental.
Drinking game: take a sip every time one of us says “I don’t know.” We say it more than two dozen times, so small sips. Think finger prick, not full vial.
Drop your theories in the comments. We need answers.
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