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Telly addicts

Derren Brown - Apocalypse

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SherlockGnomes · 21/10/2012 20:39

Seen a couple of trailers for this and it makes my tummy churn with a kind of horrible fascination. Is it acceptable to do this to a person do we think? I know they have signed up at some degree at some point, but surely it could seriously, seriously fuck you up?? Here is the

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GreenEyesAndHam · 26/10/2012 22:29

I like DB's early stuff, I think it was awesome but for me, he lost credibility with that piss poor 'I will predict the lottery live' thing.

LtEveDallas · 26/10/2012 22:31

Didn't believe that at all. Plus, in the trailer for next week - he was being 'attacked' by zombies. Well what would they do if he battered someone around the head? Nah, not real, totally staged, I think this is a hoax (on us)

(and the posters on Digital Spy seem to agree with me!)

NeedToSleepZZZ · 26/10/2012 22:32

I love it, brilliant premise and fantastically filmed. Derren is a genius.

All the people that appear on his shows are thoroughly vetted by psychologists and have proper psychological after care to check there are no bad after effects.

His finest show to date.

PacificDogwood · 26/10/2012 22:33

Attention-seeking wanker.

LittleBairn · 26/10/2012 22:41

I love Derren but if I ever bumped into him I'd run for miles until I was certain I was safely away.

I'm watching +1 he's just mentioned how he is going to put the guy into situation were he can be brave and compassionate. I think with the idea is that he will come out of it a more 'better' person that his true nature has been proven.

UltraBOF · 26/10/2012 22:42

If I miss next week's, it won't be the end of the world.

BOOM BOOM

(tried that one on the other thread- nada. I'll get me coat...)

MrsjREwing · 26/10/2012 22:45

I do wonder too about the cleaner.

headfairy · 26/10/2012 22:57

Watching on +1 and what has struck me is how few questions Steven has asked. I would have a billion questions, for Ian and Leona, more so f I'd been asleep for 14 days.

UltraBOF · 26/10/2012 22:59

Don't look at this if you don't want me to ruin the premise of the whole show for you SPOILER

Sometimes, the obvious answer is the right one.

headfairy · 26/10/2012 23:02

Bof, does that mean Steve is a fake person?

MrsjREwing · 26/10/2012 23:04

Bit thick, do you mean filming for thing means Steve is an actor?

UltraBOF · 26/10/2012 23:05

No, but he is on the fringes of a profession which would make him suitable for selection to take part, iyswim.

MrsjREwing · 26/10/2012 23:06

E4 ±1 watching 28 weeks later, first time, any good?

Whistlingwaves · 26/10/2012 23:06

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UltraBOF · 26/10/2012 23:06

That was to headfairy. I was trying not to spell it out in case people wanted to enjoy the show without knowing, MrsJR.

NeedToSleepZZZ · 26/10/2012 23:17

BOF, I don't think that proves anything tbh, my OH was a runner and extra for the Adam and Joe show and I have friends that work on other shows but they are by no means talented actors.

headfairy · 26/10/2012 23:22

Thanks Bof, I love a good spoiler me I'm never patient enough to wait for the big reveal. I do think his reactions are odd. Ok at first you're a bit "rabbit-in-the-headlights" but then the adrenaline will kick in and you'd be flooded with questions. Why hasn't he asked Ian, the paramedic about the disease? Even if you'd heard it on the tv you'd be asking a real person, especially one with a medical background, to explain it all again. Just so you can process it.

Plus Steve isn't shaking. When that much adrenaline hits your system you get the most insane shakes. Yet when he held the note his family left him he was steady handed. He just doesn't look that freaked out by it.

headfairy · 26/10/2012 23:23

Needtosleep, I don't think he is a talented actor

ISeeDeadFairies · 26/10/2012 23:23

bof link wont work but I wanna know!!!! Can someone pm me?

headfairy · 26/10/2012 23:23

That was a grin btw, I'm not having a nightcap

UltraBOF · 26/10/2012 23:25

Another cached page, names of him and his brother now both removed. More than a little suspicious

NeedToSleepZZZ · 26/10/2012 23:26

@gin reference headfairy!

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Cocodale · 27/10/2012 08:29

Seen him at the theatre and it was brilliant, spent the whole time asking myself how !!! Can't bring myself to watch this on TV though feels really disturbing.

EdsRedeemingQualities · 27/10/2012 08:33

'Methinks Derren is having us on. '

REALLY?

I told you it would be shite.

LtEveDallas · 27/10/2012 08:40

Interestingly Steve Brosnon's twitter feed is blocked, but his brothers (Barry) is open. Barry has had quite a good career...and they both went to a stage school.

28 Days Later was more believable!

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