Nathan Fielder has been quietly building his cultish brand of meta-comedy since 2013 and has now exploded into mega-stardom thanks to “You Can See Everything,” the three-hour documentary about now-imprisoned Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. For those unfamiliar with Fielder’s career or filmmaking approach, his assent to award season hopeful — even frontrunner — has felt like welcoming a strange alien to a planet inhabited by the slick Hollywood establishment.
If you’re new to Fielder, the film might leave you wondering who is this odd man that Holmes, a convicted fraudster, invited to live in her seaside bungalow with her partner and children in the days before she reported to prison? Is he a serious documentarian? A funny trickster? Both?
