MESSIAH

Derren travels to the United States and, using a series of false names, attempts to convince leading figures in the worlds of Christian evangelism, alien abduction, psychic powers, mediumship and New Age thinking, that he possesses special powers in each of these fields.

Derren Brown: Messiah highlights our susceptibility to the power of suggestion with regard to beliefs, as well as ‘confirmation bias’ – our tendency to accept only things that support what we already believe and to ignore any evidence to the contrary.