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Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy

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In a bold 28-day experiment, comedian Mo Gilligan tours the UK and US on a fried chicken diet to uncover the impact of the craving - and industry behind it.
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Ben Dowell The Times (UK) 6d
3/5
Gilligan is amiable, self-effacing and keen to learn, even when doing what he calls “proper journalism”. Go to Full Review
Benji Wilson Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 5
3/5
The goal of these type of documentaries is always, as Gilligan says at the finish, to “start a conversation”. Big Chicken certainly does that, but it’s always the same conversation that leads to the same conclusions: eat less meat. Go to Full Review
David Tusing The National (UAE) 18h
4/5
Gilligan is an inspired choice to lead the story. Endlessly likeable, he never positions himself as an expert or activist. Instead, he asks the questions most viewers would, openly admits when he's conflicted and is refreshingly willing to be vulnerable. Go to Full Review
Dustin Rowles Pajiba 21h
We might have convinced ourselves that chicken is a better alternative for both our health, the environment, and for animal rights than beef. Big Chicken does a solid job of disabusing anyone of that notion, especially when it comes to fried chicken. Go to Full Review
John Serba Decider 6d
A little more depth and thematic focus would do Big Chicken some good, but as it stands, Gilligan’s efforts and strong subject matter keep the doc afloat. Go to Full Review
John Stark Mac the Movie Guy Aug 6
69/100
Mo Gilligan’s personality adds enough flavor to keep it entertaining. If you’ve seen Super Size me or Food Inc,you’ll recognize many of the same arguments.As far as the audio description, VSI London has landed on my naughty list this Christmas. Go to Full Review
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Goose R @rodrigug 4d Comedian Mo Gilligan is on a quest to find out why fried chicken is so popular in the UK while also eating just fried chicken for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 28 days Cool documentary that shows almost everything of this industry. The greed. The chemist that design additive food. The ag gag laws that protect animal factories from people going in and documenting their animal atrocities. The harm to the environment and the human rights violations on both workers and poor communities where they setup shop. Health and a little bit of animal exploitation. Sad part is that even after seeing all of that, Mo continues to eat fried chicken which continues to fuel this horrible industry. I wished he would have seen a little bit more of animal activists footage at animal factories and also tried a couple of vegan fried chicken options on his many cities where he visited. Overall. A good documentary , while is very human centric , still shades a little light on this and many other fast food See more Geoff R @RT78320596 4d Very slickly produced, but somehow he keeps randomly running into known anti-meat activists wherever he goes in the US. Definitely an agenda piece and a blatant rip-off of Super Size Me. I'll keep eating chicken, but not three times a day for a month. See more Oge R @OgeRetla 4d Unfortunately predictable and a bit naive. Feels like one of these Netflix documentaries with an agenda. I also think the experiment could be better. Why to stop also sports for the time being? Go and watch Supersize Me. See more Richard C @Richcoff 5d I thought this was done very well. Shows just how much we don't about where our food comes from and what goes into it. See more Nellie K @BloTc 6d Morgan Spurlock did a much more comprehensive look and reasonable approach to a diet of fast food. However- it’s good to raise these issues to a new audience because humans never seem to learn. See more Oscar M @Oscar2026 Aug 7 A film full of WHITE LIBERAL females (from academics, healthcare, activists, and other random players) wishing viewers to feel sad for the BLACK MAN and the BLACK culture in general. No new information, repeating talking points of activists and LIBERAL WHITE females. Skip it. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis In a bold 28-day experiment, comedian Mo Gilligan tours the UK and US on a fried chicken diet to uncover the impact of the craving - and industry behind it.
Director
Liana Stewart
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Mindhouse Productions
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 5, 2026
Runtime
1h 38m
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