A Holmes documentary asks whether she even knows she lied (opens the source in a new tab)
- In "You Can See Everything", Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim film Elizabeth Holmes at home with her partner and two young children in her last weeks before prison. Asked if she did anything wrong, she says no.
- Critics split on what it shows. The Post's Monica Hesse sees either a damning portrait or a near-exoneration, and thinks Holmes is guilty; on NPR, Ronald Young Jr. says it turns on whether she understands what lying is.
- The backstory: in 2022 a jury convicted her on four counts of defrauding investors over a finger-prick blood test that didn't work as promised.
- 4
- fraud counts in the 2022 verdict
- 11 yrs
- prison sentence
- $140m
- Walgreens' reported Theranos deal
Why it matters Theranos sold a story before it sold blood tests, and big backers lent it credibility. A film about how far conviction can drift from reality lands well in a week of big forecasts and bigger bets.
Other side Giving a convicted fraudster this much screen time risks softening her story. A jury has already weighed her claim that she didn't know, and NPR's critic says he left understanding Fielder better than Holmes.
Also read: NPR (2022): Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of fraud, is our latest seller of false hope · The Guardian: why we still care about Elizabeth Holmes