Derren Brown: Miracle

It was all fun and games until he dropped "cow" after clumsy when referring to one of the guest volunteers.

Bye

I've seen all of his shows, but in this one he seemed a bit out of ideas. The tricks were mostly simple and easy to decipher. Most of the time he'll be building up and building up and... building up, just to show a disappointing finale.

Maybe I expected more from him, but I really didn't enjoy anything from this show. It was basically him trying really hard to get everyone in the same state of mind, just to show of some lazy simple street-art trick.

I rate this a 2 / 10 just for his effort / energy.

Very similar to his previous show on British TV. It even brings less to the table with its short playtime. You can savely skip this if you have seen his earlier "miracle" shows.

In this very staged "live" performance, Derren Brown claims to be a skeptic, bad-mouths faith healing, rattles off what I assume are jokes, and performs what actually amounts to faith healing himself. I really hope the people he "healed" were plants because if they were credulous audience members, he played a very mean trick on them in convincing them that he had cured their ailments. Unfortunately, the tricks were old cliches, the humor fell flat, mostly because you couldn't keep up with the nonsense he was babbling, and the claim of skepticism was tainted by his "if you believe it, it's true" presentation. No. If it isn't true, it isn't true, no matter what you believe, and this hack is lying to you.

Illusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing" through a series of skills that demystify the boundaries of fear, pain and disbelief. Illusionist Derren Brown creates daring social experiments to demonstrate how manipulation can lead a normal person to commit shocking acts.

I am very intrigued by this documentary and this illusionist, he said a very interesting phrase, advice from the Roman philosopher Epictetus, we only have control over two things our actions and our thoughts... I was left with a post-documentary hybrid feeling, between disbelief and faith... I know the power of mental capacity, but I'm quite absurd for him to "guess" what people will think...