After finding out how big brands reel us in, you’ll never see Black Friday the same way again

The conspiracy theorists are correct. The conspiracy is to get us to buy more, and it has worked out just great. Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy (Netflix) is shrewdly timed, released a week before Black Friday — a shopping orgy that used to be American but is now universal — and Thanksgiving (still American) and a few weeks before Christmas.

According to this 84-minute documentary, every single public holiday involves, in the days that follow it, a huge surge in the amount of perfectly good items that retailers send to landfill..