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Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s A24 documentary has turned Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos downfall into a cross-media surge, drawing renewed audiences to the book, podcast and television saga built around her.

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**You Can See Everything**, the A24 production co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, surpassed expectations to become the highest-grossing U.S. documentary in 15 years, reaching the mark two weeks after release.

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**Elizabeth Holmes** was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors after Theranos’s collapse; the sentence has since been reduced several times.

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By The Guardian Culture · Summarized & edited by Kapil Samant · 2026-10-27

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You Can See Everything, the A24 production co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, surpassed expectations to become the highest-grossing U.S. documentary in 15 years, reaching the mark two weeks after release.
Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for defrauding investors after Theranos’s collapse; the sentence has since been reduced several times.
The Dropout podcast drew a 900% surge in listeners, while the Disney/Hulu series of the same name posted a 700% viewer increase and reached No. 47 on IMDb’s Most Popular TV Shows list despite its 2022 release.
Bad Blood, John Carreyrou’s account of Theranos, returned to the bestseller lists amid the renewed appetite for Holmes-related media.
Theranos had technologically inadequate equipment, a surveillance culture that made employees feel unable to speak out, third-party machines used in place of its own hardware and false-positive results for HIV, cancer and other serious conditions.
Ian Gibbons, Theranos’s former chief scientist, took his own life before he was due to testify against the company, although the account cautions against blaming Theranos solely for his death.
You Can See Everything asks whether Holmes can make viewers accept her innocence, presents her as a mother and soon-to-be convict, and incorporates AI and technofascism into its portrait of the modern grift.

Why it matters: A24’s surprise hit has materially widened attention across Holmes-related media: the film reached the highest-grossing U.S. documentary in 15 years, the podcast gained 900% in listeners and the TV series 700% in viewers. For publishers, podcasters and studios, the draw is clear, while the underlying material remains Theranos’s documented deceptions, employee surveillance and false-positive tests.