Oct 16, 2026 · 2h 47m
A documentary turns Elizabeth Holmes into an unsolvable mystery
You Must See ‘You Can See Everything.’ Plus: Judd Apatow!
The episode examines how You Can See Everything uses uncertainty, reenactment, and domestic intimacy to challenge documentary truth and ethical judgment.
- 1You Can See Everything makes its own construction visible without resolving whether its central performances are sincere or strategic.
- 2The film’s family scenes and shifting perspectives turn Elizabeth Holmes’s story into a study of power, sympathy, and unknowability.
- 3Judd Apatow explains why his documentaries favor openness, archival contradiction, and comedy’s unresolved psychological masks.
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Amanda Seyfried’s reconstructed prison phone call with Elizabeth Holmes turns memory, transcription, acting, and documentary evidence into one unstable scene.
The brief
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins begin with Greta Gerwig’s Narnia trailer, Zendaya’s collaboration with Alex Garland, and their plans for fall movie coverage.
Their main argument is that You Can See Everything turns Elizabeth Holmes’s domestic life, prison countdown, and family dynamics into evidence that never settles the truth.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim gradually expose the documentary’s machinery through reenactments, Amanda Seyfried’s investigation, and a prison phone call shaped by memory and performance.
The film’s ending leaves Holmes, Billy Evans, and Fielder caught in competing versions of intimacy, raising ethical questions about children, sympathy, and who controls the story.
Judd Apatow discusses observational filmmaking with Maria Bamford, archival portraiture with Norm Macdonald, comedy’s psychological masks, and his increasingly improvisational process.
Books & mentions
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The Dropout
Its dramatized account of Theranos provides a useful contrast with the documentary’s unresolved portrait of Elizabeth Holmes.
Mind Over Murder
Judd Apatow’s recommendation extends the episode’s interest in true crime, human behavior, and the limits of explanation.
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