Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy hits Netflix’s August doc lane — Mo Gilligan digs into meat

Your bucket meal has a paper trail. Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy — Netflix’s Mo Gilligan-fronted investigative documentary — lands in the August 2026 slate as one of Tudum’s nonfiction pillars beside Mourinho and Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young. The brief: follow the industrial chicken machine from hatchery economics to drive-thru margins.

Why it is timed for August

Netflix loves summer doc drops that travel on social clips — food horror scales better than prestige war docs for algorithm shares. Expect slaughterhouse access fights, lobbying maps, and Gilligan’s stand-up cadence cutting the grimness. Exact premiere day sits inside the August catalog wave; add it the morning it appears in New Arrivals.

Watch pairing

Stack with Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing if you are in corporate-accountability mode, or chase it with a palate-cleanser comedy so you can still eat dinner. Vegetarians will feel vindicated; everyone else will Google nugget ingredients at 1 a.m.

Queue it. Maybe skip the drive-thru the same night.