Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge

[Reforged]

The Milgram experiment is known by pretty much everyone. Doesn't make good TV though, which is all this ultimately was aiming to achieve (incidentally I believe Brown has already done a show or segment about Milgrams electrocutions).

Yeah. It was part of "The Heist" where he managed to manipulate people into robbing a security van with a fake gun.

[God of Mr. Hanky]

The Milgram experiment is known by pretty much everyone. Doesn't make good TV though, which is all this ultimately was aiming to achieve (incidentally I believe Brown has already done a show or segment about Milgrams electrocutions).

Glad you recognize that, although I'm not sure an imaginative person couldn't make decent TV of Milgram's far more realistic work. It's on account of what Brown did to reach his end that he never really reached it at all, wanking away into the field of entertainment while twisting the minds of real people. How many people do you think are going to watch that and say "if I wanted to get someone to do my dirty work for me, all I need are a 100+ willing people who I can trust to the grave with it, and several million dollars for the most gifted special effects artist on the whole planet"? What a crass joke! It's why I cringe when the more ignorant people here such as Ralphie call Brown's work a "public service", showing he doesn't know of the Milgram studies.

Anyway, when you begin a show with the promise to demonstrate easy manipulation of people, it should be that which you deliver, entertaining or not.

[God of Mr. Hanky]

The Milgram experiment is known by pretty much everyone. Doesn't make good TV though, which is all this ultimately was aiming to achieve (incidentally I believe Brown has already done a show or segment about Milgrams electrocutions).

Yeah. It was part of "The Heist" where he managed to manipulate people into robbing a security van with a fake gun.

I suppose I should be impressed, Junior, that you are learning your social history through a crass TV entertainer.

[Reforged]

Yeah. It was part of "The Heist" where he managed to manipulate people into robbing a security van with a fake gun.

I suppose I should be impressed, Junior, that you are learning your social history through a crass TV entertainer.

No, I had heard of it before it aired. It was already rather well known. 
Thats why one of the participants stopped the proceedings half-way through to reveal she knew what was going on.
I suspect she also knew what was going on when she robbed the van. I think the car driving past with "can you feel it" blaring out of its windows tipped her off. She looked down and smiled at that point if I remember correctly. She was calm when she was robbing the guard and that could be attributed to strength of will but she was far too calm when the camera crew surrounded her. That should of surprised her even if it didn't panic her.