Derren Discusses The Gameshow
If you head over to Channel 4’s website for the Experiments you will be able to see an exclusive interview in which Derren explains where the ideas behind the show came from.
Click the link below to view:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown/articles/derren-brown-on-channel-4
@Jason Great article, thank you for posting, shows the power of deindividuation.
I found this show deeply upsetting and disturbing, though I knew about the electric shock experiments from many years ago. I still believe that people are basically good but this is disturbing tv. Not sure why I found is so difficult to watch.
Excellent show, I am hoping the audience and viewers learnt something for the future. I do not see the humor in peoples suffering and would have chosen the positive options, this show goes to prove that empathy and prediction skills are something lacking in todays society. Another reason for their behaviour may have been envy. It is however clear that from the start that Derren was manipulating the audiences decision and nudging them along.
I believe Derren should have gone to the next level, we should have seen Chris in an ambulance with chest paddles or at least a confirmation of his death. The resulting shock and horror would really have a memorable impact on the audience and give them a taste of their own medicine.
Note the woman who leaves the audience after the crash…
i haven’t read all the comments but wanted to know if anyone else spotted that the guy being ‘tortured’ (as thats the only way you can describe it) was some one you werent supposed to like had the guy from the false guilty experiment been the the subject of this one people would have been nice because he was someone you like. not a fair experiment do it again in a few years with all new audience and choices with someone you cant help but like and see if the same happens.