‘Big Chicken: Fast Food Conspiracy’ Documentary on Netflix Will Make You Swear Off Fried Chicken For Life

By Anna Menta Published Aug. 5, 2026, 10:30 a.m. ET If you love fried chicken as much as British comedian Mo Gilligan, you might—like him—think that there’s nothing that can turn off from those savory, crunchy, finger-licking-good tenders. But I challenge viewers to get through Gilligan’s new Netflix documentary, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, without second-guessing every Popeyes, KFC, or Wingstop order for their rest of their lives. (Or at least, for the next week.) Produced by Mindhouse, the same production company behind the Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere documentary, and directed by Liana Stewart, Big Chicken is pretty much a redo of Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me, in which Spurlock at nothing but McDonalds for 30 days straight. (Spurlock even made a 2019