A brief follow-up.
Sorry about the brevity of this, but I'm sick with a hellish head cold. Anyway, I watched the other two Derren Brown specials. One, "The System," is an interesting lesson in probability: Brown is sending tips to a woman as part of a documentary that shows he has an unbeatable system to pick racehorses to win. No problems with that one.
The fourth special, "The Heist," is a bit of a problem. Brown invites a group of people to a motivational seminar which is actually a cover for inducing four members to perform armed robbery. The process is interesting, but as part of the screening system he recreates the Millgram experiment on camera. All I can say is that the shrink he works with had better be damned good if they're going to help someone that's been through that one: there are reasons that researchers don't replicate that experiment. This could be a problem if you're watching it cold.
The fourth special, "The Heist," is a bit of a problem. Brown invites a group of people to a motivational seminar which is actually a cover for inducing four members to perform armed robbery. The process is interesting, but as part of the screening system he recreates the Millgram experiment on camera. All I can say is that the shrink he works with had better be damned good if they're going to help someone that's been through that one: there are reasons that researchers don't replicate that experiment. This could be a problem if you're watching it cold.