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Netflix’s Broken is a hard-hitting documentary serial exploring–and exposing–corruption and unethical behavior in key customer industries. From makeup impostor that realizes people putting actual poison on their faces to furniture corporations that know their products are unsafe but do very little to fix them, Broken highlightings key safety hazards the public faces every day.
Broken 
RELEASE DATE: 11/27/ 2019 PRODUCER: Zero Point Zero Productions STREAMING: Netflix This riveting docuseries exposes corruption and unethical behavior in key buyer industries.
The series starts with a look at the booming cosmetics industry, exploring how the rise of indie labels that allow for higher quality and more ethical make has also led to a huge market for inexpensive, low-quality fakes. The corresponding rise in internet-based sales and quickly updated products( especially sought-after restriction editions) has increased demand for new products and made it harder for consumers to verify authenticity. Unfortunately, while the old-school designer fakes did little harm to the buyer, these products are usually produced in unsanitary circumstances, usually containing everything from staph to horse urine. They also include toxic parts such as lead, which can cause everything from contact dermatitis to brain damage. Police, private investigators, and cosmetic scientists explain the extent of the problem, the steps being taken to address it, and routes buyers can keep themselves safe.
The episode handle vaping focuses on Juul and the behavior its marketing campaigns have led to an “epidemic” of vaping among American teenagers. Broken looks at the creation of the e-cigarette in China and its original intention of helping cigarette smokers kick their habit. It likewise explores how America’s lack of the rules of procedure, coupled with tobacco lobbyists, turned the Juul into a fashionable, high-dose nicotine delivery system, addicting a new generation. One notable facet of the occurrence was the comparison of the U.S. to the U.K ., where e-cigarettes are tightly governed, hard to access, and primarily used to help people quit smoking cigarettes.
Broken tackles furniture next, which people might not assume is inherently dangerous. But thanks again to a lack of regulation in America, unstable dressers and other furniture transmit someone to the ER roughly every half-hour. This is an especially important episode for viewers with young children, but is also likely to be distressing, as many babes and small children have died as make of faulty furniture. The occurrence focuses on Ikea, as many considered the company’s response to the discovery that one of its dressers was prone to tipping over and had vanquished multiple offsprings to be callous and insufficient. The evidence discloses the darker aspects of the company’s past, as well as unethical logging practises in Romania, although the company repudiates those acts and insists the issues have been addressed.
Finally, Broken addresses the recycling industry’s negative impact on Asia, and the ways in which the petrochemical industry has worked to push responsibility for the pollution and other environmental impacts onto the consumer. Covering corruption and violence by recycling companies in Southeast Asia and the pushback from the local communities, Broken exposes the guilt of lobbying groups and big businesses in America while offering potential, albeit partial, answers for a plastic-free future.
While Broken can be a little patronizing at times, it’s overall an interesting and informative docuseries, highlighting the real dangers the consumer goods industry poses to consumers and the planet itself. While this sort of program can tend toward dull or preachy, Broken escapes these pitfalls, employing observers to the end.
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