Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim have turned Elizabeth Holmes into the center of a new documentary that was shot over 34 days before she surrendered to federal prison in 2023. The film, You Can See Everything, catches her in the narrow window between her conviction and the start of a prison term that has kept her in the public conversation ever since.
That timing matters because Holmes is no longer a distant figure from the Theranos scandal. She is being held at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas and was scheduled to be released on Feb. 22, 2030, so any fresh look at her life lands with the force of something that is already part history and part live story. The documentary arrives as viewers search for how she looked and sounded before she went behind bars, and why her version of events still draws attention.
What the film gives them is a portrait built around hesitation. Holmes repeatedly answers, “I don't know,” and repeatedly becomes emotional about her impending prison time and about being separated from her two small children. She also struggles with a question that is almost ridiculous in its simplicity: the central joke in Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First?”
That is where the documentary’s pull starts to bend. It presents Holmes in a more sympathetic light, especially as a mother facing separation from her children, but it does not erase the way she avoids clearly accepting responsibility for the Theranos scandal. Her father adds another layer to that picture by linking an alleged rape at Stanford University to a permanent shift in her behavior. Billy Evans, meanwhile, used Holmes’s different way of thinking as the reason he reached out to Fielder, a detail that helps explain how the filmmakers gained access to a subject who is still defining herself in public.
The result is not a neat defense or a clean takedown. It is a pre-prison portrait of Holmes that leaves the hardest question intact: whether a film can make her more understandable without making her answerable. For now, the timing of You Can See Everything does the work. It freezes Holmes before prison, after Theranos, and just ahead of a sentence that was already counting down to 2030.
