The title of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything is reflective of the film’s interest in radical transparency, but also ironic in that one of its major themes turns out to be the unknowability of other people's intentions. We get into spoiler-filled detail about all of that and more this week, before bringing Albert Brooks’ 1979 feature debut Real Life back in for Connections to see how these two comedic deconstructions of the documentary form engage with the innate artificiality of nonfiction filmmaking. Then for Your Next Picture Show, we recommend another surprisingly comedic take on the Elizabeth Holmes saga, the 2022 limited series The Dropout.

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Next pairing: Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky and John G. Avildsen’s Rocky

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