Why Does Tyler Shultz Push Back on the New Elizabeth Holmes Hype?

Tyler Shultz feels the settled account of Elizabeth Holmes has been slightly undone. He wonders what the next stepping stone is in her rehabilitation and what role the movie plays in it. He still thinks the overwhelming majority of people agree with his version of reality. A fringe is getting maybe stronger, or feels emboldened by the film to speak in her favor.

He wishes Nathan Fielder or Lance Oppenheim had reached out. He is happy not to be in the film. If he had been in the film, he would have been on guard, thinking he was about to get got. He knows how Nathan Fielder works. He wishes he could have prepared Nathan Fielder, or at least that Nathan Fielder had consulted him. The open question is whether Nathan Fielder knew the device Elizabeth Holmes showed on the kitchen table was not the device they had actually built and actually used on patients, or knew and chose to let her mislead him and the audience down a semantic rabbit hole around the word can. He also wants to know whether she bested him in their game of chess and manipulation, or Nathan Fielder realized the movie was more interesting if Elizabeth Holmes led the way instead of being called out.

PJ Vogt read interviews with Nathan Fielder and with Lance Oppenheim. Both said the time between knowing there was an opportunity to film with her and filming was very, very short, which makes him assume that at least in the moment they did not know. For most people the story is complicated and happened a little while ago, and that played to her advantage. His guess is that in the room, Nathan Fielder did not know.