If you’ve been curious about Nathan Fielder’s recent endeavors following The Rehearsal‘s latest season, we have the scoop.
The comedian, writer, and director from Vancouver unveiled a teaser on Sunday evening for his upcoming project, a documentary focusing on Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, who was notably found guilty of fraud in 2022 after her company claimed to have developed a blood testing method capable of detecting numerous diseases with minimal blood samples.
Fielder’s documentary, titled You Can See Everything, was created in collaboration with filmmaker and documentarian Lance Oppenheim and focuses on the period leading up to Holmes’s imprisonment in 2023.
Oppenheim’s previous works feature Spermworld (2024), an FX-produced documentary about sperm donors, and Some Kind of Heaven (2020), which explores a retirement community in Florida.
Fielder rose to prominence with Nathan For You, a Comedy Central series where he offers questionable business advice to entrepreneurs. He previously captured the attention of Canadian audiences with his segments titled “Nathan On Your Side” on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 2008 and 2009.
You Can See Everything is being distributed by the popular Gen Z brand A24. The trailer showcases the company’s characteristic high-saturation color grading and unsettling ambiance.
It features a nearly one-minute intimate dialogue between Holmes and Fielder, where they lock eyes intensely as Holmes states, “Why would I deceive you? There’s no — there’s no reason for me to do that.”
Following a lengthy pause, Fielder, looking incredulous, asks, “You’re being real right now?”
The trailer’s debut coincided with a surprise screening on Sunday at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Although reviews are pending, several critics took to social media to share their enthusiastic reactions.
Film director Daniel Howat posted on X after the screening that You Can See Everything “is perhaps the most hysterical, shocking, insane documentary I’ve ever encountered. Endlessly thought-provoking … A work of genius.”
Los Angeles-based music producer Erik Nordgren described it as “easily the best film of the year for me, possibly making my best of the decade list. It transitions from an intensely uncomfortable documentary into something even more shocking in its structure, style, and form. Like nothing I’ve ever witnessed.”
This interaction recalls another awkward, lesser-known interview Fielder conducted on This Hour Has 22 Minutes with former CBC president Hubert T. Lacroix back in 2008. In that segment, Lacroix admits to being a fan of Fielder’s work but struggles to provide any specific examples.
You Can See Everything is scheduled for theatrical release next month.