Returning for a second season, Netflix’s culturally relevant and eye-opening documentary series Rotten showcases six more episodes designed to expose shady business practices and some of the shocking corruption surrounding a lot of our food products today. With many of the same techniques as the first season, Rotten delivers more of the same here, with a good balance of face to face interviews, informative graphics and plenty of facts and figures to digest. From bottled water scandals and awful modern-slavery techniques adopted for creating chocolate, it does well to keep each episode engaging and shocking. Much like before, Rotten does tend to lean closer toward the American consumer and marketplace, but there’s enough educational content and thought provoking discussions here to keep things balanced. At the heart of it, the series is really about exposing the rotten core of terrible business practices and a lot of the episodes follow the same rigid pattern as before. After introducing the product and its general production history, we then go on to see the current challenges and problems farmers and workers face today in the wake of growing demand. All of this will be familiar territory for those who watched the first season and Rotten does well to keep things interesting here, building on the good work done last year with its various episodes exploring trades like garlic, cod and milk whilst exposing the challenges these face. Season 2 is no exception here. If you saw the first season, strap in for more of the same. Rotten has its winning formula and stubbornly sticks by it, much to the credit of the show.

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