Netflix's Bill Gates docuseries Inside Bill's Brain gets sidetracked with a focus on public toilets

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Davis Guggenheim’s three-part docuseries, now available on Netflix, "risks losing its audience with its first episode, which keeps the Gates biography to a minimum, and instead dedicates a lot of its run time to various designs for better public toilets that are meant to improve the water supply in poorer villages and neighborhoods," says Noel Murray. "The episode demands some fascination with plumbing and a high tolerance for images of fecal matter — both in graphic video footage and in the animated illustrations Guggenheim uses throughout the series. If Netflix subscribers only have time to watch one Inside Bill’s Brain episode, they should pick the second, which comes closest to doing some 'decoding.'" ALSO: Inside Bill's Brain demolishes Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers Theory.