Inside Bill’s Brain – 7.5

Getting such a close-up, personalizing look at one of the major figures of our time alone makes this a worthwhile watch. The succinct, clear elaboration of the three projects addressed in the three episodes – public sanitation, polio eradication, and nuclear power – is skillful. Ultimately, though, the takeaway is a negative one: Bill Gates can offer the brainpower and financial support to solve some of the world’s enormous problems, but mankind’s political pettiness, greed and lust for power stand firmly in the way. (Netflix)