(Clearly, Chris doesn’t follow the Jack Donaghy rule of post-6:00 p.m. Why ‘Queen Charlotte’ Says Yes to a Very Specific Wedding DressĬhris starts off as a frog in a slow social boiling pot of water when he’s the only one at this charity gala not dressed up. As the on-screen string-puller directing a cast and crew of hundreds through a thoroughly choreographed set of circumstances, Brown plays coy with whether or not the goal is to get main subject Chris to actually go through with it or to get him to the point where he can choose for himself. The set-up is simple: Take one unsuspecting person, chosen for his human suggestibility, and lead him through a series of tiny tasks that slowly make him more perceptible to carrying out an unthinkable task. Purporting to answer the question of whether or not a random individual could be psychologically coerced into justifying the killing of another person, the twisted entertainment of “The Push” comes in all the moments before that fateful ending task. 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 States via Netflix. For a special that seems almost entirely geared to answer one climactic question, “The Push” is surprisingly spoiler-resistant.
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