Tag: Derren Brown: The Push
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‘The Push’ Creator Derren Brown on His Next Netflix Special: It Will ‘Push a Lot More Buttons’
If you were shocked by the trailer for “Derren Brown: The Push,” that might be due to your location relative to the Atlantic Ocean. The one-hour TV special/social experiment, where one man is placed in a situation designed for him to commit murder, comes from Derren Brown, whose previous psychological mazes have tried to get…
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‘The Push’: Netflix Special That Tests Human Compliance Is a Life-or-Death ‘Nathan for You’
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the Netflix special “Derren Brown: The Push.”]For a special that seems almost entirely geared to answer one climactic question, “The Push” is surprisingly spoiler-resistant. Magician/sociologist Derren Brown unveiled this elaborate TV experiment in the UK back in early 2016, but it’s just now making its way to the…