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27 Oct 2026
2h 10m

NBA Power Poll 1.0, Plus a ‘You Can See Everything’ Breakdown With Wesley Morris

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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The NBA’s opening week establishes early power dynamics, with Oklahoma City navigating significant injury setbacks while Houston emerges as a formidable contender. Beyond the court, the documentary *You Can See Everything* serves as a meta-critique of nonfiction filmmaking, exposing the tension between authentic documentation and performative art. Elizabeth Holmes maintains a pathological commitment to her deceptive narrative, while Amanda Seyfried delivers a revelatory performance that blurs the lines between actor and subject. The film interrogates the ethics of modern documentary production, specifically the impact of paying subjects and granting them editorial control. Ultimately, the project functions as a psychological death match, questioning whether truth can ever be captured when subjects are incentivized to manipulate the lens, transforming the documentary into a complex, self-aware study of human artifice and manipulation.

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