Buy Now! is not just about the mechanisms of modern hucksterism. It also examines the results of the addictive consumption and excessive production that drive each other in an ecologically catastrophic vicious circle.

This is the latest in a series of one of my least favorite types of documentaries, one that uses scaremongering and spooky music to warn against nefarious actions of tech when most of what it exposes is either common knowledge or otherwise obvious.

They've got some amazing people to interview... But then they don't know what to do with them.

Buy Now delivers a few eye-opening facts and figures and exposes some ugly corporate practices, but it’s ultimately too annoyingly gimmicky and thematically cluttered to be effective.